Literacy Games
Playing games together as a family can be a great way
to enhance literacy skills. These games can be
purchased at as variety of stores throughout the city.
(book stores, toy stores, department stores and
teacher stores which are always a great resource for
many literacy activities) The following list highlights
games we use at Dr.
Oakley.
1. Bingos
•
Homonyms
•
Initial consonants
•
Rhyming
•
Site Word
2. Max’s Attic Phonics
Game
3. CVC Spelling Board Game
4. Clusters – Word Building Game
5. My Word – Fast and Fun Word Play x5
6. Scrabble to Go X 4
7. Word Rally Cubes x6
8. Language Dominoes – set of 4
9. Sentence Challenge
10.
Prefixes and Suffixes
11.
ABC Mix and Match
12.
Rhyming Sounds Sorting Game
13.
English On A Roll – Book One and set of
word blocks
14.
Unifix Word Ladders – Initial Blends and
CVC
15.
Letter Cubes CVC and Blends
16.
CHUNKS – The Incredible Word Building
Game
17.
Chunk Stacker
18.
Word For Word Game
19.
Clusters – Word Building Game x2
20.
Reading Rods - Word Families
21.
Reading Rods – Site Words
22.
Boggle X 3
23.
Upwards
24.
Reading Rods – Word Families
25.
Heximania –Word Building Fun x2
26.
Word Scrabble
27.
Showtime Synograms - Expression
28.
Showtime Synograms – Imagine
29.
Sound Search Bingo – Lingo Systems Kit
30.
Vowel Scrabble – Lingo Systems Kit
31.
Word Scrabble 2 – Lingo Systems Kit
32.
The Phonological Awareness kit – Intermediate Lingo Systems Kit
33.
Word Sweep
34.
Snap It Up – word families
35.
Fact of Opinion? Gr 1-3
36.
Fact of Opinion? Gr 2 -3
37.
Fact of Opinion? Gr 3-5
38.
Context Clues
39.
Banana Grams x 3
40.
Scrabble Upwards
41.
Make a Monster grade 3 – Language Arts
42.
Make a Monster grade 5 – Language Arts
43.
Crazy Eights games:
•
Crazy Longs (vowel sounds)
•
Crazy Shorts (vowel sounds)
•
Crazy Mores (vowel patterns)
44.
Reading Comprehension Cubes x2
45.
Retell A Story Cubes X2
46.
Scrabble Slam card game x 2
47.
Riddle Maze - Reading Comprehension
48.
Quidder
49.
Twist and Shake Boggle
50.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Cheese Touch Board
Game
51.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Scrabble
Accessing Your Computer
There are a multitude of literacy games found on the
internet by simply googling “Literacy Games”. A few of
our favorites include:
http://www.spellingcity.com/
http://www.woodlandsjunior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm#pronouns
http://pbskids.org/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/site/litera
cy.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/students/
http://www.what2learn.com/play-a-game/
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/langarts.html