Description
Learning to distinguish between the various vowel sounds in English can be difficult. When reading the spelling can give a clue (but doesn’t always), but there are no visual clues when listening or speaking. This is an essential skill so one worth practicing. This easy to set-up and play game is so fun even my adult students don’t feel as though they are practicing “baby” skills. Before playing you will need to print one board and one set of word cards for every two students. Print each set of word cards on two different colors of cardstock so students know who placed each word. There are 227 words in each set. I highly recommend laminating the various pieces so they last longer. You may also want to print the vowel sound reference list so students can check their answers if needed.
There are multiple ways to play the game:
Four in a Row:
1. The students each take one set of word cards and look at them.
2. On a student’s turn, he/she chooses a word and places it in a corresponding section of the game board. (CAT would go in one of the short a boxes.)
3. Any word that is placed incorrectly must be removed and the turn is forfeited.
4. The first student to place four words in a row (horizontally, vertically, diagonally) is the winner.
Blind Four in a Row:
1. The students each take one set of word cards but do not look at them. The cards can either be placed in a messy piles in front of students or in envelopes for them to draw out of.
2. On a student’s turn, he/she chooses a word at random and places it in a corresponding section of the game board. (CAT would go in one of the short a boxes.) If all of the corresponding cells are full (CAT is drawn but all the short a cells are occupied) the card is discarded and the turn is over.
3. Any word that is placed incorrectly must be removed and the turn is forfeited.
4. The first student to place four words in a row (horizontally, vertically, diagonally) is the winner. If the board is covered, and no student has been declared the winner, the winner is the student with the most cards on the board.
Cutthroat Blind Four in a Row (AKA: Replacement Blind Four in a Row)
1. The students each take one set of word cards but do not look at them. The cards can either be placed in messy piles in front of students or in envelopes for them to draw out of.
2. On a student’s turn, he/she chooses a word at random and places it in a corresponding section of the game board. (CAT would go in one of the short a boxes.) If all of the corresponding cells are full (CAT is drawn but all the short a cells are occupied) the student may choose to replace one of his/her opponent’s cards with his/her own. The replaced card is discarded from the game.
3. Any word that is placed incorrectly must be removed and the turn is forfeited.
4. The first student to place four words in a row (horizontally, vertically, diagonally) is the winner. If the board is covered, and no student has been declared the winner, the winner is the student with the most cards on the board.
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Description
Learning to distinguish between the various vowel sounds in English can be difficult. When reading the spelling can give a clue (but doesn’t always), but there are no visual clues when listening or speaking. This is an essential skill so one worth practicing. This easy to set-up and play game is so fun even my adult students don’t feel as though they are practicing “baby” skills. Before playing you will need to print one board and one set of word cards for every two students. Print each set of word cards on two different colors of cardstock so students know who placed each word. There are 227 words in each set. I highly recommend laminating the various pieces so they last longer. You may also want to print the vowel sound reference list so students can check their answers if needed.
There are multiple ways to play the game:
Four in a Row:
1. The students each take one set of word cards and look at them.
2. On a student’s turn, he/she chooses a word and places it in a corresponding section of the game board. (CAT would go in one of the short a boxes.)
3. Any word that is placed incorrectly must be removed and the turn is forfeited.
4. The first student to place four words in a row (horizontally, vertically, diagonally) is the winner.
Blind Four in a Row:
1. The students each take one set of word cards but do not look at them. The cards can either be placed in a messy piles in front of students or in envelopes for them to draw out of.
2. On a student’s turn, he/she chooses a word at random and places it in a corresponding section of the game board. (CAT would go in one of the short a boxes.) If all of the corresponding cells are full (CAT is drawn but all the short a cells are occupied) the card is discarded and the turn is over.
3. Any word that is placed incorrectly must be removed and the turn is forfeited.
4. The first student to place four words in a row (horizontally, vertically, diagonally) is the winner. If the board is covered, and no student has been declared the winner, the winner is the student with the most cards on the board.
Cutthroat Blind Four in a Row (AKA: Replacement Blind Four in a Row)
1. The students each take one set of word cards but do not look at them. The cards can either be placed in messy piles in front of students or in envelopes for them to draw out of.
2. On a student’s turn, he/she chooses a word at random and places it in a corresponding section of the game board. (CAT would go in one of the short a boxes.) If all of the corresponding cells are full (CAT is drawn but all the short a cells are occupied) the student may choose to replace one of his/her opponent’s cards with his/her own. The replaced card is discarded from the game.
3. Any word that is placed incorrectly must be removed and the turn is forfeited.
4. The first student to place four words in a row (horizontally, vertically, diagonally) is the winner. If the board is covered, and no student has been declared the winner, the winner is the student with the most cards on the board.
