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Phonics Games ‘Billy Goats Gruff’ You will need: Large pieces of paper or card to use as steppingstones. You can write one letter on each stone, so you might need a few, you will also need a towel or bed sheet to create a river. Your child stands at one side of the river, you place the steppingstones in the river making a path across. On each stone write a letter of a word e.g. ‘h’ on one, ‘a’ on the next one and ‘t’ on the last one. Your child makes the sound of each letter as they step on it. Then blends the sounds together to guess the word ‘hat’. If they get the word correct, they Alphabet challenge You will need: post-it notes or small pieces of paper, write one letter from the alphabet on each bit of paper. Give your child the post-it notes or papers with the letters written on them. The challenge is that they have to go around the house and find an object that starts with each letter, sticking the note to the object. Can your child find an object for each letter? Which sounds were the trickiest to find objects for? If this is too easy why not give them 5 minutes and see how many they can find in 5 minutes. Magic Words You will need: A white crayon, a coloured crayon, watered down paint. Draw circles on a page using a coloured crayon. Inside the circles write sounds / words / sentences for your child to sound out or read using the white crayon. Your child can paint inside the circles to reveal the words / letters for them to sound Code it! Robot Talk If your child finds it difficult to hear blends this is a good activity. You will need: a few different objects that are easy to sound out. Ask your child to pass you an object e.g. Say, “pass me the f- or-k”. Sounding out ‘f’ ‘or’ and ‘k’ separately, like a robot. Your child then figures out the object t n Warning! This activity can be tricky! You will need to create a code for your child where 1 object = 1 letter. The example beside uses Lego. Spell out words using objects that correspond to your code (see the blue tray beside). Your child then uses the code to figure out the letters they need to create the word and writes them down. They sound out the letters to figure out the word. You are better sticking to CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) Other activities You can adapt lots of games to include phonics e.g. bingo, pairs, twister, hopscotch (use letters instead of numbers).
