Disclaimer: I received a FREE copy of this product through the HOMESCHOOL REVIEW CREW in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way.
The Reading Game, 2nd Edition from
Allsaid & Duun, LLC is a memory card game for ages 4 and up. The Reading Game was created by Kenneth Hodkinson author of Wordly Wise. Using a game style approach children will learn 180 sight words utilizing memory card games, picture flashcards, and storybooks that make learning fun! The 180 are taken from the Kinder through 1st grade Dolch Word List.
How does it work?
This learn-to-read program comes with six fun illustrated storybooks: skunk, snake, bear, penguins, unicorn, and zebra. Before your child is ready to dive into each book they will play a series of word-matching games. Each game has six stages. Each stage contains five new words. After the first two matching games students are tested using a captioned picture flashcard. This continues throughout games 3-6, two games and then being texted with a picture flashcard. Each consecutive picture flashcard will have words from the previous levels. After game 6 is played and the student successfully has read the appropriate picture flashcard then they are ready to read their FIRST BOOK! Each story builds on the words previously learned. Anyone can play the game with the student so long as they can read all of the words in the books. Most often this will be a teacher, parent or tutor. But maybe an older sibling may want to help a younger sibling learn to read. Extra resources such as summative and formative assessment worksheets, class recording sheets, ideas on themed topics for class discussion on the storybooks can be found on the Educator's Page.
Each matching game consists of 10 cards, or 5 sight words.
Each stage has 6 levels.
Here is the front of one of the Picture Flashcards.
Here is an example of the Skunk level Picture Flashcard.
Another Picture Flashcard, Penguin Level.
All of the Picture Flashcard levels.
The Storybooks
An example from the Skunk Level.
An example from the Unicorn Level.
At the end of each storybook is a list of the sight words learned
for that level.
After looking at The Reading Game I thought that it was a very creative way to introduce and help children learn sight words. Having taught my six children to learn to read I am all too familiar with the difficulty that sight words can pose. I think that this may have been beneficial for some of my children as they learned how to read while some of my children would have been rather frustrated. With that said, I always say, what doesn't work for one child may be the PERFECT FIT for the next child. If you came to my house you would see just that browsing through my homeschool shelves. I would definitely recommend this program to homeschoolers and educators alike. I am a fan of Wordly Wise so knowing that this was created by the same person gives it great credibility in my book. My sure to read what my
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