Friday, December 23

Literacy Games

    Games encourage learning at any age. Play can help to develop phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, reading comprehension, fluency and critical thinking skills. We have been experimenting with word searches and games like vocabulary/sight word BINGO, and Boggle. Our challenge this week was to see how many words could be made from the letters in "SNOWFLAKE". 

    Literacy games do not need to be structured. While out and about try games such as Eye Spy and 20 Questions to expand vocabulary or watch for words with unusual spellings. For example vacuum is one of the few words with the double letter u.

                

Check out a game we will be trying in the new year called "BAM".

BAM

This game is best with 2-4 players

• craft sticks
• marker pen
• container to store craft sticks

Get Ready:

Use the marker to write a focus word on one end of each craft stick. Repeat until you have two sticks for each word. Write BAM! on the remaining five craft sticks. Place all sticks into the can so that the end with the word on it is hidden inside the can.

How to play:

Players take turns drawing a stick from the can. Players can either read the word on the stick, or quickly look at the word, cover it up, and then spell it without looking. If the player answers correctly, she keeps the stick. If the player answers incorrectly, the stick is returned to the can.

If the player draws a BAM! stick, she must return all her sticks to the can.

Play continues until the parent calls time. Alternatively, a time limit can be set and the winner is the person with the most sticks in their possession when time is up.

The above game has been shared from the Scholastic website 

"5 Literacy Games to Play with Your Child"

Have a fun and relaxing winter break, 

I look forward to seeing you in 2023! 

Mrs. P