A-E Phonics Board Game to Print and Play

Here is a fun, print 'n play phonic game for the split digraph a-e!

Help your pupils to grasp the tricky split digraph concept as they play!

Who is the a-e game suitable for?

All learners of phonics, including young children, SEN/special needs, ESL etc...

Aims and Objectives

Some children, when starting to learn about the long /a-e/ sound will start to make every /a/ into a long /a-e/ sound. While this is common among all children, some children need more help to overcome this difficulty. Therefore, this game has two aims:

1. To help children to be able to hear the long vowel sound a-e in words

2. To help children understand that some words have a short /a/ and some have a long /a-e/; the child must listen to hear which word has which - not guess.

How to play:

This is a game for two players. The teacher should watch if two children are playing together.

Each player takes a game board which will indicate whether the player should listen for words with a short /a/ sound or a long /a-e/ sound.

The selected picture cards are scattered on the table face down.

Players take it in turns to choose a picture card. The player says the word and listens to the vowel sound. Is it short /a/, or long /a-e/? If it belongs on the player’s board, it is placed on one of the oblongs. If not, it is returned to the table, face down.

The winner is the player who completes his/her board first.

Teaching tips:

Support children to sound words out/blend them as needed.

Help children to hear the vowel sound by emphasizing it and stretching it out. Help the child to do this as well.

Have fun - as this eases children over those tricky spots!

What is included?

1 PDF with 2 game boards and 20 pictures all in colour and ink saving black and white.

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1 PDF with 2 game boards and 20 pictures both in colour and ink saving black and white.