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Learning the building blocks of words - sounds, their spellings, and word parts


More Flex-It games

$AUD16.50

15 more download-and-print games to help you teach Set for Variability (pronunciation correction) skills. Often a spelling has more than one plausible pronunciation e.g. ‘er’ in ‘person/peril’, ‘ir’ in ‘virtue/virus’, ‘ine’ in ‘refine/ravine’. Children need to learn to try a different, plausible sound or sound combination if their first sounding out attempt doesn’t yield a real word. These games help kids learn to ‘flex’ the way they pronounce target spellings, and practise reading polysyllable words.

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15 more download-and-print games help you teach Set for Variability (pronunciation correction) skills. Once children have been taught more than one pronunciation for a given spelling – e.g. the ‘ar’ in ‘alarm’ and ‘award’ – they need to be able to apply these flexibly when tackling new words, keeping in mind adjacent spellings, word position and syllable structure. They also need to know that not everything that looks like a digraph is a digraph (e.g. the ph in ‘shepherd’).

Each of these games has 48 cards and words of two or more syllables. Each provides practice at sounding out words in a flexible way. The games target the following sound-spelling relationships:

  1. ar as in award/alarm
  2. er as in person/peril
  3. ir as in virtue/virus
  4. or as in corner/coral
  5. ur as in purple/purest
  6. ear as in shearer/searching
  7. oo as in choose/cook
  8. ou as in trousers/toucan
  9. ie as in movie/magpie
  10. u as in puppet/pulley
  11. sh as in galoshes/goshawk, th as in bother/bolthole, wh as in pinwheel/cowhand, ph as in elephant/shepherd (there aren’t enough of these consonant non-digraphs for separate games)
  12. t as in ballet/wallet
  13. e as in sesame/soufflé
  14. ch as in children/chemist
  15. ine as in refine/ravine

Download and print each game on three A4 sheets of light cardboard, laminate them, cut them up (or enlist older students with good scissor skills who aren’t busy to help), and you’re ready to play. Instructions included, but here’s a video showing how to play using cards from the original set:

 

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