Game Packs for Learning

1st - 5th grade. Practice decoding blends. Players take turns drawing word endings they can match with blends on their Bingo boards to make real English words. The first player to find a match for every blend on his card wins.

This game practices the reading of words with the longer spellings of /k/, /ch/, and /j/ as we meet them in short words following single short vowels.

This Bingo game practices some of the most common and least phonetic English sight words in the context of lively phrases that include simpler words. Suggestions are offered to use the phrases in other playful contexts.

Practices 15 rhyming sets of short, common, and phonetic English words in the context of Bingo

Two Vowels Go Walking Tic-Tac-Toe - This game follows "Vowel Sound Rebound" with its word shells into which students insert vowels, but in this game all the vowels are in teams that follow the rule, "When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking." Later on children will learn that this rule often does not work, but it works often enough that it offers a very helpful starting point.