My Word Matching Adventure - Blending and Segmenting Dominoes
Make learning phonics fun and interactive with My Word Matching Adventure - Blending and Segmenting Dominoes! This hands-on group game is designed to develop phonics skills by encouraging students to blend and segment sounds to form words. With engaging domino cards featuring simple CVC, CCVC, and CVCC words, students will build foundational literacy skills while enjoying an exciting game. It can also be used for whole-class phonics revision.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to orally blend and segment sentences, to segment words and manipulate phonemes in single-syllable words (phonological awareness).
- We are learning to use sounds in spoken words, adding, deleting and subtracting initial, medial and final phonemes (sounds) to build new words (phonological awareness).
- We are learning to use most letter-sound matches including vowel diagraphs, less common long vowel patterns, e.g. ight, consonant clusters and silent letters, e.g. knife, thumb, when reading and writing words of one or more syllables.
- We are learning to orally blend and segment sentences and words and manipulate sounds in words.
- We are learning to use sounds in spoken words, adding, deleting and subtracting initial, medial and final sounds to build new words.
- We are learning to use most letter-sound matches including vowel diagraphs, less common long vowel patterns, e.g. igh, consonant clusters and silent letters, e.g. knife, thumb, when reading and writing words of one or more syllables.
- We are learning to use digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words, including some compound words.
- We are learning to understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations, e.g. the long ‘a’ sound in stay, weight, able, make.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E1LY10
9
Orally manipulate phonemes in spoken words by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words (phonological awareness)
AC9E2LY10
9
Use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter/s) matches, including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, consonant clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllables, including compound words
AC9EFLY10
9
Segment sentences into individual words; orally blend and segment single-syllable spoken words; isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes in single-syllable words (phonological awareness)
ACELA1825
8.4
Understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations
ACELA1471
8.4
Understand how to use knowledge of digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words including some compound words
ACELA1824
8.4
Use most letter-sound matches including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, letter clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllable
ACELA1457
8.4
Manipulate phonemes in spoken words by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words
ACELA1819
8.4
Segment sentences into individual words and orally blend and segment onset and rime in single syllable spoken words, and isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes in single syllable words
ENe-5A
old
Demonstrates developing skills in using letters, simple sound blends and some sight words to represent known words when spelling
EN1-4A
old
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
EN1-5A
old
Uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letter–sound correspondences, to spell familiar words
ENE-PHOAW-01
new
Identifies, blends, segments and manipulates phonological units in spoken words as a strategy for reading and creating texts
EN1-PHOKW-01
new
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
EN1-SPELL-01
new
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
VCELA204
Manipulate phonemes by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words
VCELA218
Recognise most letter–sound matches including silent letters, trigraphs, vowel digraphs and common long vowels, and understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations
VCELA239
Identify all Standard Australian English phonemes, including short and long vowels, separate sounds in clusters
VCELA169
Blend and segment onset and rime in single syllable spoken words and isolate, blend and segment phonemes in single syllable words (first consonant sound, last consonant sound, middle vowel sound)
VCELA226
Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends, silent letters and syllabification to spell simple words including compound words
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
• Provide smaller sets of dominoes for students needing simpler word matches to build confidence.
• Allow students to work in pairs with an adult or peer for additional support during gameplay.
• Use colour-coded sets to assist students with visual differentiation of word patterns.
Extensions
• Challenge advanced learners to write sentences using the words they form during the game.
• Use the included worksheet for students to record the words they match, reinforcing writing and spelling skills.
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