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Word Wizard
2 3 4 Pre & Primary Essentials Games & Activities English Phonic & Word Knowledge 5 Pages

Word Wizard

This game contains 2 levels of difficulty.

Level 1 asks the students to use their knowledge of phonemic awareness to identify the sounds contained in words to move around the gameboard. Simply spin the spinner, find the word with the long vowel sound and say the word to move forward. The first player to the end wins!

Level 2 challenges students to identify the missing vowel sounds from the words. Simply spin the spinner, find the word missing the long vowel sound and write the word to move forward. Make a nonsense word and you must go back where you came from! The first player to the end, wins! 

This resource is part of the units of work for Year 2 and 3- Blending and Segmenting.

Laminate for multiple uses, can be used as a formative assessment, assessment for learning
 

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to segment sounds in spoken words and to add, delete and substitute sounds to build new words.
  • We are learning to use knowledge of letter-sound relationships, syllables, blending and segmenting to read and write words with more than one syllable or with complex letter patterns.
  • We are learning to use knowledge of letter-sound relationships, syllables, blending and segmenting to read and write words with more than one syllable or with complex letter patterns.

Curriculum alignment

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 EN2-5A old Uses a range of strategies, including knowledge of letter– sound correspondences and common letter patterns, to spell familiar and some unfamiliar words 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 EN2-VOCAB-01 new Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words EN2-REFLU-01 new Sustains independent reading with accuracy, automaticity, rate and prosody suited to purpose, audience and meaning EN2-RECOM-01 new Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension EN2-SPELL-01 new Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts
VCELA238 Manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words through knowledge of blending and segmenting sounds, phoneme deletion and substitution VCELA239 Identify all Standard Australian English phonemes, including short and long vowels, separate sounds in clusters VCELA249 Understand how to apply knowledge of letter–sound relationships, and blending and segmenting to read and use more complex words with less common consonant and vowel clusters

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

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