Hi! Future Ticia 2024 here, I’m updating this phonics reading game post to make it a bit more useful and something people will be able to find and use. It was a fun bit of gameschooling before I even knew what that was. I just knew I wanted a reading game and so I made a Card game (which I’ll be adding this on there). At some point I should make a list of my homemade games. Though some of mine are more official and aren’t just I grabbed clipart from back in the days when Microsoft still had clipart to use. Now I create games to sell. Back to Past Ticia 2011.
(Future Ticia is adding in affiliate links)
Well, there weren’t many suggestions on where to get some quick phonics games, aside from a suggestion of getting Happy Phonics, which I’ve heard is awesome, but I don’t want to buy another curriculum. I was really looking more for a couple of quick games that were online somewhere that I could print.
And, so I made up our game in a few minutes. I’m probably going to make a second game for the rest of the short A words they use rather than having my kids do the worksheets, but I’m not going to share that since I’m just going to copy their pictures, and that would be violating copyright…
Supplies needed for Short vowel phonics game
Supplies needed: printable short vowel game (on the subscriber page,JOIN MY NEWSLETTER), cardstock, scissors to cut pieces apart or paper cutter, manilla envelope to hold the completed game
Playing the short vowel game
First I cut the pieces apart so the word and picture were still attached to each other. That let them look at the word and know which picture went with it. I didn’t want them thinking the picture for mug went with the picture for cup.
Then I finished cutting it apart and only passed out about half of the cards.
This kept the game at about 5 minutes, which meant we got to play several rounds during their attention span rather than just one or two………
This particular time we did it as a Go Fish variation, but it could easily be used for memory, or any of the other little kid card games.
Leave a Reply