What Games Can I Use for Beginning Sounds?
LRS Bucket.
Launch & Learn Beginning Sounds. To play, give a picture mat to the student. Set up the tile dispenser and place the letter tiles inside. Student “launches” a tile and places it on the picture that begins with the same letter as that tile e.g., “G” on “Goat.”
Reading lesson books.
The I-Spy Game: give the student a game card and tell them to look for an item beginning with a particular letter. For example, if you want them to find a book, say “I spy something beginning with b.”
Phonics bean bags: play catch with the student. Have them identify the item on the bean bag and say what letter it begins with.
The Racetrack game (N7 in the Numbers Bin) can be customized to be used with beginning letters. Use the index cards from the tutor bucket to make your track or use cards from the letter picture box.
Ping Pong Toss (N22 in the Numbers Bin) - use the stickers in the tutor bucket to write the targeted letter sounds and place them at the bottom of the cups.
Use letter picture cards/trinkets.
Alphabet Learning Locks.
What Games Can I Use for Blends & Digraphs?
Adaptations of many of the LRS Games:
Power Pen Blends & Digraphs.
Touch & Read Phonics Blends & Digraphs.
Blends & Digraphs Teaching Tubs.
Splash Blends & Digraphs.
Snap & Build Phonics Blends & Digraphs.
Phonics Dominoes Blends & Digraphs.
Roll & Write Game.
Early Reading Books.
Elephant Line Up (Word Work Folder Games).
Find and Write Blends & Digraphs.
What Games Can I Use for CVC Words?
Adaptations of LRS Games (anything that has a write-on, wipe-off game board)
N 7: Racetrack.
Word Family Flip Books.
Spell a Word Flip Book.
Word Work Folder Games.
Blah Blah Blah Phonics Card Game (Easy level).
Touch & Read Phonics Word Match CVC.
Rhyming Pups.
Rhyme & Sort Rockets.
CVC picture cards.
Alphabet pouch in tutor bucket.
Early Reading Books.
Wood Word (Word Work Folder Games).
Let's Celebrate (Word Work Folder Games).
Going Sailing (Word Work Folder Games).
I Can Build Simple Words.
What Games Can I Use for Sight Words?
Adaptations of LRS Games.
Numbers Bin Games:
Sight Words Bingo.
Sight Words & Sentences Flash Cards.
Game Note Sight Words Flash Cards.
Word Work Folder Games.
Sight Words Cards & Context Sentences.
The Fidget Game.
Early Readers.
Flower Garden (Word Work Folder Games).
Match Game (Word Work Folder Games).
Sight Word Fishing Game.
Sight Word Stomp!
Sight Word Swat.
Sight Word Seashell Game.
Sight Words Splat!
What Games Can I Use for Rhyming?
Many of the games in the Auditory Processing Bin are tailored towards rhyming, including:
Fun to Chant Phonics Rhymes activity folder.
Word Families Activity Dice.
Rhyming Pups.
Word Family Flip Books.
Rhyme & Sort Rockets.
Circus Town (Word Work Folder Games).
Buzzing Around (Word Work Folder Games).
Early Reader Books.
What Games Can I Use for Writing and Fine Motor Skills?
Fine Motor Games FM 1- 5.
Writing bin Activities: write-on, wipe-off cards; prompts journals; play foam shape & learn letter sounds.
Whiteboards in tutor buckets.
Play Dough for shaping letters, numbers.
Chenille sticks for shaping letters.
“Magic Slates” in tutor buckets.
Handwriting and printing workbooks.
Roll & Write Game.
Dinosaur Sort Game (in Numbers Bin).
What Games Can I Use for Numbers in the Teens?
Teens are one of the most difficult concepts for young students to grasp. Often a child may be able to “count” to 100, but in the same way that singing the ABC song does not mean that the child knows and recognizes all the letters, being able to recite numbers 1-100 does not necessarily mean that the child understands what they mean. It is particularly important that students understand that numbers 11:19 are made up of one block of 10 + units. For example, 13 = 1 block of 10 and 3 units.
Using Ten Frame cards (in the tutor buckets) can be a helpful visual tool:
There are several other activities and games that can be used to work on this concept, as well as games offering practice with counting and number recognition:
Abacus.
Unifix cubes: colorful cubes that come in blocks of 10 and can be broken apart to make units.
Numbers Bin Games:
Numbers Bingo.
1-50 Ten Frame Puzzle Cards.