Matching activities develop several reading readiness skills.

Students match large, colorful cards to improve visual discrimination, letter and color identification, left to right progression, and organizational skills.

In 8 sets, students match 6 pairs of capital and lower-case letters. Commonly confused letters are grouped together.

Students attend to letter order and left-to-right progression with word match cards. The 8 sets contain 6 groups of 3 words. First, students sort the cards by colors. Then they match the 2 words of the 3 that are alike and set aside the reversal. This is a visual task, not a reading activity.