Players group together in sound families, enhancing children’s phonological awareness.

Educational Aims:

• To develop knowledge of grapheme-phoneme correspondences
• To rehearse articulating the phoneme
• To develop phonological awareness

Location:

Hall or playground

Players:

Multiple (no less than 15)

Playing time:

Approximately five mins

Resources:

• Instructions (PDF)
• Grapheme playing cards: Each set must contain three or four cards with the same sound. The number of sets needed will vary depending on the number of children. Each child must have a grapheme card (e.g. for a group of 30 children you will need 10 sets of cards such as 3 x ‘s’, 3 x ‘a’, etc)