English spelling is famously unpredictable, but beneath the chaos, there's a structure.

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The Lingo Lenses IPA Magnet Tiles help students make sense of that structure by focusing on the sounds, not just the letters.

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This magnetic, hands-on set supports students in mapping spoken phonemes to their possible graphemes (spellings), using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as a decoding tool. Whether a student is struggling with pronunciation, spelling, or decoding unfamiliar words, these tiles offer a concrete, flexible strategy for making sense of sound–spelling mismatches.

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What Makes Lingo Lenses Different?

With these tiles, students can:

• Transcribe words into IPA to explain complex spellings.
• Visualise sound–spelling connections in real time.
• Separate what's predictable from what’s irregular in any word.
• Recognise that one sound can have many spellings, and one letter can represent different sounds.
• Develop powerful, metalinguistic problem-solving skills.
  

What’s Included in the Set

52 magnetic tiles

• 44 IPA phoneme tiles covering the full range of English speech sounds.
• Colour-coded vowels and consonants for instant visual clarity.
• 8 additional blank tiles for multisyllabic words or repeated phonemes.
• Grapheme options printed on every tile so students can see the common spellings for each sound.

Tile size and print style designed for classroom visibility and durability.