A-E Phonic Game To Develop Phonemic Awareness

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 ore three players, one of which should be an adult.

The game can be played with either pictures or sounds.

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

The adult reads a word on the word card, and the pupils must listen for 'e' or no 'e'? If the pupil has the sound/ picture on his/her board, she/he covers up a space. the winner fills hi/her board first.

Teaching tips:

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 sound boards, 2 picture boards, squares to cover up and a word (readers) card.

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