Effective Reading Instruction

27 Phonological Awareness Games and Activities. Check the Thumbnails for list of contents. This contains a large range of games that target a wide range of phonological awareness skills. I'm not sure where it came from and appears out of print. The presentation of the activities is a little old fashioned but they work very well. It comes with a table of contents and all games come with instructions.

This Snakes & Ladders game supports struggling and proficient readers alike practice sounding out consonant blends at the beginning of words and manipulating(deletion) them. It also helps students iron out any audio-perceptual issue that can come with blending initial consonants together. I use this game in class and give it to students and parents to take home and practice over the for home work and for holidays. This game works as an effective tool for scaffolding developing phonemic awaren

This game supports teaching and practice of 2 syllable words that contain double consonants. Students find this game easy to play well once they are taught the basic double consonant splitting rule and the sounds made by the suffixes.

This is a snakes and fire truck ladders game that helps children learn and consolidate deleting the first phoneme from high frequency words containing consonant blends at the beginning of words. I was actually surprised how quickly this game works as an effective tool for scaffolding developing Phonemic Awareness skills of deleting the 1st phoneme from consonant blends. Pack includes Game board and instructions.

Fractions and decimals go fish. This game is handy for consolidating converting decimals to fractions. Just laminate and cut out the cards and students play. There is a matching fractions picture for each decimal. Students For 2 or 3 players (any more seems not to work very well). Each student receives either 5 or 8 cards each and the remainder of the deck is place face down in the middle of the players. Students turn taking goes in a clockwise directions asking if they have a fraction or decima

Contents: 24 high frequency CVC onset-rime slides with pics These slides work great for teaching beginning readers to sound out and begin chunking words into onset-rime. They help develop reading fluency and automatic word recognition skills for cvc words. Students find these slides highly engaging and fun to use. Teachers can use these in games for 1 on 1 reading instruction sessions or challenge each other to make words and match them with and image facilitating basic vocabulary development.

Made this because we were teaching co-ordinates in math and a lot of Battleship style games have the x and y axises mixed up so participants have to say the y axis first (as opposed to the X axis). I changed it to Helicopter rescue because I had a couple of refugees in the class.

Bossy E Rule, Magic E Rule or Silent E Rule Game. Instructions are written at the bottom of the game board. Easy to play and students find it enjoyable. The game usually takes 10 mins to play. Will need a die (1-6) and counters for each player. The games is best if printed out on A3 paper and laminated to reduce wear and tear.

This game works well for students who have just started learning the Bossy/Magic/Silent E rule. All words contain no spelling irregularities and allows students to just focus on applying the rule. It is easy to play requiring minimal instructions to the students. My Students like it and it is effective as a consolidations of skills tool.

This game is great for supporting students who struggle to segment words containing continuous sounds, continuous & stop sounds and stop & continuous sounds. I've used it a lot with young and older students a like. The game comes with instructions and although it appears very simple it provides enough challenge with out being overbearing for students to play and engage with the activity repeatedly until the skill is mastered.

This Game is great for supporting students who rely predominately on memorizing sight words as a reading strategy to develop basic segmenting skills and support getting them to look into words, identify digraphs and gain familiarity of a range of different sounds letters can make in words. I've used it extensively and it is highly effective and appears to have knock on effects with reading fluency. The game appears very simple but provides enough challenge with out being overbearing for students

This is a fun and engaging activity for struggling and strong readers alike to practice reading CVC words, identifying , initial, final and medial vowel sounds. It contains 74 color coded high frequency CVC word cards and matching pictures. In the classroom as a consolidation activity it can be used as an effective strategy to help struggling readers stay on task for extended periods of time while continually practicing blending & segmenting skills and drawing their attention to initial, med

Onset - Rime Slides that cover all CVC rimes & almost all CVC words. Just pick the rime you want to focus on and practice with your student or have students practice with each other. They are easy to use and an effective teaching tool.

This is an Uno/Change Style game that focuses on identifying the consonant digraphs sh, ch & th in simple, phonetically regular 3 phoneme words. The game includes instructions, is easy to play and helps students identify and blend consonant digraphs while reading words.

Rhyming Go Fish is a Great way for students to consolidate basic rhyming skills and develop skills using high frequency vocabulary. There are 52 cards in all and almost all rhymes focus on CVC words. The game comes with clear instructions. Instruction time is minimal and as soon as students understand the rules they can play it independently. Children enjoy playing this game a lot. It suits 1 to 4 players.

This Snakes & Ladders game supports struggling and proficient readers alike practice sounding out consonant blends at the end of words and manipulating(deletion) them. It also helps students iron out any audio-perceptual issue that can come with blending vowels and consonants together. I use this game in class and give it to students and parents to take home and practice over the holidays. This game works as an effective tool for scaffolding developing Phonemic Awareness skills of blending an

I use these slides as a step to help struggling and proficient students alike to speed up moving away from CVCs and identify and read digraph related word families They work very well.

This onset-rime slides are great to support students learning the bossy-e/magic e rule while emphasizing hoe the letter "c" followed by "e" makes a "sssssss" sound.

I use these slides as a step to help struggling and proficient students alike to speed up moving away from CVCs. They work very well.

The game works like UNO. there are 3 kinds of word families; those with an ay, oy & ing in them. It is a useful teaching and consolidation game/activity to help students identify "ay", "oy" & "ing" digraphs in words and sound them out in the context of simple one syllable words (With a couple of exceptions). I use it quite a lot and find it to be very effective. Contents: Cards with words containing ay, oy & ing words in them.