TEACHING OBJECTIVES :
Social conventions of game play : turn taking, abiding by rules/not cheating, losing gracefully etc.
Counting with 1 to 1 correspondence.
Counting on (starting with NEXT square)
Words with the vowel phonemes ay, ai and a-e
This is a simple "track" board game.
YOU WILL NEED:
Printout of board (laminated if possible, to add durability.)
Die (numbers or dots)
Counters - different colour for each child
RULES OF PLAY:
Start at the head of the snake, marked "start," the first to reach the "tail" is the winner. You can decide beforehand whether you are going to require the exact number to finish, or simply to pass off the end of the snake's tail: this will depend on the age and ability of the children playing the game.
Throw the die in turn and move the appropriate number of spaces. If a counter lands on a word, the child must read it then find the picture of the object which corresponds to that word and move to that square.
The game can be varied by reversing the procedure i.e if the counter lands on a PICTURE, then the child has to find the WORD for that object.
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