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Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

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This I have, Who has card game is a fun way for kids to learn and practice various skills like letter identification, sight words, shapes, colors and more!

My kids LOVE games! Card games, board games, you name it - they pretty much enjoy them all. That is why my rainbow board game isn't just a reader favorite, but my kids' favorite too.

I am always looking for ways to teach them skills with games, so when I heard about the I Have, Who Has? game I just had to make it for them.
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I have, Who has? Cards - download link at end of post

Scissors

Marker (regular or dry-erase, depending on whether you laminate the cards)

Laminator/lamination pouches (optional)

1. Print the blank cards on cardstock for durability. Just print several copies until you have the amount of cards you would like. I would suggest printing about 5-10 copies, depending on how many people will be playing the game.

2. Laminate the pages, if you would like and then cut them out. Or, if you are worried about the edges, cut the cards out and then laminate. I had some extra time so I did the latter.

3. If you are not laminating, just cut the cards out.

4. Write a words, letters, shapes, etc. to the cards. For example: I have "to" Who has "it" Then the next card would say I have "it" Who has "you" This continues until the last card at which point you would circle back around and end that card with the first word/letter/etc you used on the first card. In this example, that would be "to" This way you can start with any card in the pile and the game will go on as usual.

Playing the I have, Who has? Card Game

Deal the cards out to each player one by one until there are none left. If there are extra cards, it is fine to let a couple of the players have 1 more card. Or the parent/teacher can have the extras. It's up to you.

The first player will start with one of their cards. After they are done with it they can lay it in a pile in the middle of the table or place it in a basket/tray on table. The game is over when all of the cards have been placed in the pile/tray.

I was surprised by how much my son liked this. I think it was because it was a card game and he thinks those are fun and because it was easy enough for him to play without a lot of instruction from me.

It is a FANTASTIC way to practice reading sight words, identifying letters and more! It is so much more fun than simply using flash cards or worksheets to learn these skills!

Here are some more literacy activities for young kids!
LEGO Sight Word Towers Building Sight Words Activity Play Dough and Alphabet Beads Sight Words with Alphabet Stamps

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So BAM! is the latest craze at our house at the moment! My girls play this fun learning game at breakfast and the whole family plays at dinner. I love that it is super simple to make and my kids are revising what they are learning at school without even realising it!

For Miss 9, this means multiplication tables and for Miss 4 single sounds - and part of the beauty of BAM! is that with this one game you can totally revise two completely different content areas at once.

Not only that, but BAM! is a great game for all sorts of learning revision - you can make it about other maths facts such as doubles or bonds of ten, as well as single sounds, phonic blends, sight words, spelling words or CVC words, geography facts, it would even work with periodic table revision...and I am sure there are many other possibilities too.

GAMES FOR KIDS: HOW TO PLAY BAM!

A game for 2+ players

You will need:
* Craft/lollypop sticks
* Marker pen
* Small tin can or similar
To play;

Use the marker to write a fact for revision on one end of each craft stick - you can include multiplication facts for revision, other maths facts such as doubles or sets of ten, single sounds, phonic blends, sight words, spelling words or CVC words. If you have children learning different facts, write one fact on each side of the stick - we are currently using sticks with multiplication problems on one side for Miss 9 and single sounds on the other for Miss 4.

Write BAM! on an additional 2-4 sticks. Place all sticks into the can so that the end with the fact on it is hidden inside the can.

Players take turns drawing a stick from the can. Players must answer the fact correctly to keep the stick (for spelling words, look quickly at the word and then cover and spell without looking). If the player answers incorrectly, the stick is returned to the can.

If the player draws a BAM! stick, she must return all her sticks to the can.

Play continues until the adult calls time. Alternatively, a time limit can be set and the winner is the person with the most sticks in their possession when time is up.
How will you be playing BAM!? Check out our Multiplication Game Pack for more times table game ideas...
Christie Burnett is a teacher, presenter, writer and the mother of two. She created Childhood 101 as a place for teachers and parents to access engaging, high quality learning ideas.

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Learning Games for Kids: BAM! for Sight Words, Multiplication & More

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So BAM! is the latest craze at our house at the moment! My girls play this fun learning game at breakfast and the whole family plays at dinner. I love that it is super simple to make and my kids are revising what they are learning at school without even realising it!

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Nadia from Teach Me Mommy joins our ABC and 123s letter and math series today with a fun homemade word dominoes game that's perfect to practice CVC words.

Homemade word dominoes game for CVC words

I am honored to be sharing this great CVC Dominoes game here today! What is so great about it, you may ask? Well, it is not stunningly beautiful or impressive at first glance, but it is a do-it-yourself, frugal teaching tool you can use for revising . Oh, and because it is a game, it is usually a hit with everyone, even your reluctant reader!

What are CVC words?

CVC words are short, single syllable words made up of a consonant - vowel - consonant pattern, like, c-a-t, d-o-g and m-a-t. They are some of the first word patterns beginner reader and spellers learn, and a great building block in knowing how to spell.

I made these CVC dominoes for learners I see for literacy remedial lessons. We have been working on 14 letters of the alphabet so far this year, and as a revision strategy I used those 14 letters to make up all the CVC words added to the sticks. Obviously you can add your own CVC words to your sticks, words your children are familiar with. The idea with this game is not to learn new words, but t0 reinforce what has been learned.

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How to make your CVC word dominoes

Write the words on the sticks in random order. Decorate the sticks if you wish. I had forty words on twenty sticks. The more sticks, the better.

How to play the CVC domino word game

You can either play with matching up beginning letters or you could match rhyming words (word families). As shown below, beginning letters: cop cot and mom mop etc. Or rhyming words: got cot and rig fig etc.

Divide the sticks between the players.

Then decide who will start, perhaps by calling: Who has the word mop? That player places the stick with the word mop in the middle of the table/carpet.

Next player must now add a word that matches to the stick already on the table like in a game of dominoes.

Carry on with taking turns matching. If a player cannot add a stick, he/she skips a turn.

The winner will be the player who uses his/her sticks up first.

Extension of the game

Make a sentence with the word before putting it down.

Think of more rhyming words.

Use the sticks as a writing prompt: making sentences and writing them down.

Make a silly poem with the sticks you have: The pot sleeps in the cot with a mot and got hot!

A great game to revise CVC words, don't you think?

More fun DIY literacy games your kids will enjoy:

Sight Word Popsicle Stick Game
Subject & Predicate Writing Game
Magnetic Spelling Game
Nadia is a South African mommy of two and a remedial therapist. She blogs over at Teach me Mommy about easy and playful activities with the aim to teach. You can follow along on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.
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Nadia from Teach Me Mommy joins our ABC and 123s letter and math series today with a fun homemade word dominoes game that's perfect to practice CVC words. I am honored to be sharing this great CVC Dominoes game here today! What is so great about it, you may ask?

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I love all of the fun activities that you can make with plastic Easter eggs. There are so many out there on the web right now. I found this one last year and have been waiting to do it for a long time. I found it on Eager Little Mind. I got a big bag of plastic Easter eggs, counted out 26 and wrote each uppercase letter on one side of the egg. On the other side I wrote 5-6 different lowercase letters. The object is to twist the egg and match the uppercase letter to the lowercase letter. As an added bonus I found little toys, etc. to put in each one that start with that certain letter. They can open it and see what is inside after they've matched the letters. It would be ideal to have something that would actually lock until they matched the letters, but oh well, life isn't suppose to be ideal, right? :)

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I love all of the fun activities that you can make with plastic Easter eggs. There are so many out there on the web right now. I found this one last year and have been waiting to do it for a long time. I found it on Eager Little Mind.

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Phonics anchor charts and blends charts are a great way to teach difficult concepts to beginning readers. Keep them around the classroom, and your students will be able to use them independently for increased confidence and learning!

Here are 20 blends and phonics anchor charts we love.

Source: 1 and 2 With Mr. Su

Students will love putting words to the test both with a silent e on the end and without. Have students hold up a floating e so they recognize both words.

2. Hard and Soft C

Source: Mrs. Jones's Class

The different sounds made by the letter C can definitely be tricky to understand. You might have your students help you create this anchor chart, coming up with words that fall into both categories.

3. Row Your Boat

Source: Shining and Sparkling in First Grade

We like how this anchor chart puts vowel digraphs that make the same sound side by side.

4. Explaining Consonant Blends

Source: Consonant Blends/The Inspired Apple

When you work on consonant blends, have students compare each letter's sound individually. Then have them pay close attention to what happens when they blend together.

5. Beginning Blends

Source: The Mall-ard Kindergarten Marquee

The best part of this chart is that you can add blends as you introduce them in class.

6. Double E Tree

Take one single concept, like the double e, and come up with every single word that it applies to.

7. Vowel Pairs

Use this anchor chart to help define the rule, and then encourage your students to come up with their own examples to add.

8. Recipes for Blends

Source: Smitten With First

A cute analogy that will encourage students to try different letters together, creating and testing their own word "recipes" too.

9. It's Owl Right

Source: Mrs. Jump's Class

This cute owl chart shows students the many words that contain an "ow" sound, whether it's spelled "ow" or "ou."

10. The Many Ways to Spell the Long A Sound

Source: Hello Literacy

One of the trickiest things about phonics for students to learn is how the same sound can be spelled lots of different ways. It helps to see side-by-side examples, like in this anchor chart that describes the different spellings of the long A sound.

11. Bring in the Blender

Source: Tales of a Teacherista

Put the current blends you are studying "in the blender." Cute!

12. The H Brothers

We love how this anchor chart creatively shows the different sounds digraphs containing the letter H make.

13. The Bandit Y

Source: First Grade Fresh

Try this anchor chart to help your kids learn how tricky Y can be!

14. Pairs, Digraphs, and Diphthongs

Source: Mrs. Gillespie's Thoughts

What are the differences between these vowel pairs, anyway?

15. Sounds of G

Source: Glitzy in 1st Grade

Is it a hard G? Is it a soft G? Students will easily learn the difference between the two and get great examples too.

16. Ow vs. Oa

This chart shows the differences between words that contain a long O sound. We like how the beginning and ending blends are highlighted too.

17. Phonics Charts for Every Digraph

Source: The Inspired Apple

We love the idea of creating different phonics charts for each digraph you are studying and adding words as you learn them.

18. Lesson From a Pirate

Source: Mrs. A's Kindergarten

Get your pirate voice ready because you're definitely going to want to use it when you go over words with "ar" in them.

19. Long I Storytelling

Source: Tied Up With String

It's fun to write a class story or poem using a certain sound as many times as possible.

Practice saying "Bossy R" words with your students. It really helps them to hear it said out loud.

Love these phonics charts? Check out our anchor charts archive for even more subjects and grades!

Plus, watch this video to see these phonics charts up close!

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Matching upper case and lower case

Teachers can use the following activity to ask students to help the "Mama animals" (uppercase letters) find their "babies" (lowercase letters). This game includes matching the uppercase mothers with their lowercase babies.

This link provides a template for a prinatble "Superhero" upper and lower case letter match game.
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This file includes uppercase and lowercase letters in a matching game that parents can use with their child at home.

This link provides templates for printing cards to use for writing uppercase and lowercase letters.
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Letter formation: using sand, play dough, flour

The link below provides teachers with downloadable mats with the alphabet letters for helping children use play dough for learning letter formation.
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Letter bingo

Bingo is a simple game that children enjoy and can be used to help them learn about the upper and lower-case letters. This link allows teachers to print the letters and board needed to play letter bingo.

Letter stamps

Stamps are an excellent "hands-on" activity for helping students learn about the alphabet. The activity described in the link below provides teachers with some creative ideas for making letter stamps out of sponges. Teachers can use sponges and paint in a variety of ways to help children understand the shape and function of upper and lower-case letters.
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Letter recognition fluency

This online document contains several activities that are helpful for building letter recognition fluency. Teachers can download materials needed and follow the instructions for each activity. There are also some ideas included for extending and adapting each activity to further enhance learning. Some examples are provided below.

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Speedy Alphabet Arc: Teachers can download and print a copy of the alphabet "arc" and have students use letters to match the ones on the arc. Parents could use this idea at home with magnetic letters by placing the arc on the refrigerator and have the child match the letters. Using a timer and seeing how quickly the child can match the letters is optional.

Glow Go: This activity includes the use of glow in the dark chalk and black construction paper. Students can work together taking turns using a flashlight and naming the letters.

Hungry Letter Mouse: Teachers can utilize this activity for students to work on letter recognition in pairs using an eraser and dry erase marker. One student can use the eraser to be the mouse and the other student names the letter before the "mouse" eats it (i.e., erases it).

Letter books

Teachers can use the downloadable materials form this website to create letter books in which each page contains one letter. The kids draw or cut pictures from magazines that start with the particular letter and glue them into their "book."
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Downloadable letter and alphabet cards

Flash cards

The link listed below provides teachers with downloadable ESL flashcards. These are free and printable for use within the classroom. There are large sets for use with teaching letters and vocabulary, and smaller sets for language learning games.
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This website provides printable color flashcards that are great for teaching upper and lowercase letters. These cards are free and use the Zaner Bloser font which is very simplistic - ideal for teaching young children.

Alphabet cards

The downloadable alphabet cards available from this link have various fonts to choose from, color picture cards to accompany the letters, and creative ideas for activities.
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Race track alphabet

The website below offers teachers the ability to download letters of the alphabet in race-track format. Children can use toy cars to trace around the letters to help learn the formation.
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