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This game provides a fun way to practice the following literacy skills:
- Letter Recognition
- Matching Upper- and Lower-Case Letters
- Word Families and Rhyming
- Initial Consonant Sounds
- Blends, Digraphs, and Short Vowel Sounds
Think about the letter sounds your child needs to work on. If he/she is still unfamiliar with most of the sounds, limit your selection for each game. Perhaps you will choose letter sounds that frequently appear in a book (or books) your child is reading. Maybe there are some letter sounds he/she consistently has more trouble with. As your child gets better at this, you can add more letter sounds to the game.
You and a child can have fun making this game together.
- Print each letter clearly and boldly on individual 3 x 5-inch index cards.
- Have your child cut from magazines or draw his/her own simple pictures of objects that begin with each letter to be studied.
- Each drawing or cutout goes on an index card.
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Example:
- If you are working on the sound of the letter b, one card would have the letter b printed on it. The other card may have a picture of a bed, a ball, or a balloon.
- Create as many pairs of these cards as you deem appropriate for your child but give him/her the freedom to decide on the pictures. Just make sure each picture corresponds with a letter card.
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- You may make more than one pair per letter sound. For every picture card, there must be a corresponding letter card so that each card in the deck has a match.
- Shuffle the cards well and place all of them face down in neat rows.
- Players take turns flipping over two cards at a time.
- For each letter card flipped, the player must name the letter and the sound it makes.
- For each picture card, the player must say what it is and then say what sound it starts with. If the cards match (and the player recognizes this), the cards are taken by that player. If the two cards turned up do not match, the cards are replaced (face down) and the next player takes a turn.
Example:
- A "b" and a "c."
- A "b" and a picture of a mop.
- Play until all the cards are matched.
- For each player to collect as many pairs as possible.
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