Skinny Books - 164 Word Family Games
Children are hooked on playing games on their different electronic devices. Playing Word Family Games will not just be fun, but educational. Pre-readers will become early readers. Novice readers will build their phonics skills. Beginning readers and more experienced readers will increase their reading vocabularies and become more fluent readers. And all this will be accomplished through the word family approach of using rhyming words (hat, bat, cat).
Four Levels of Games
Pre-Readers
- consonant
- vowel consonant
Examples:
can, pan, man
Novice Readers
- consonant
- vowel consonant
Examples:
back, pack, sack
Beginning Readers
- long vowels
Examples:
ate, date, late
More Experienced Readers
- challenging sounds
Examples:
fair, air, pair
Word Family Games:
- Matching: teaches word recognition.
- Spelling: teaches letter sounds and the spelling of basic words.
- Bingo: enhances word recognition skills.
Children should:
- Select a level that is appropriate for their skills.
- Play a game more than once to master a skill.
Parents should know:
- Building reading skills requires a lot of practice which these games will do.
- Playing these games is time well spent as their children are learning skills that will pay off in the classroom.
- Reluctant readers will be drawn to reading as they gain skills through playing word family games.
- The word family approach is very helpful for poor and dyslexic readers.