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Busy Things hosts over 1600 curriculum-linked activities and games for early years and primary aged children. A school subscription also includes lots of features and tools for teachers that promise to save planning time. Take a free trial to have a proper play or book a demo here.
Cat splat
Catch all 5 words that contain the phoneme (sound) given by the speaker - whichever way it is spelt. You lose a star for splatting an incorrect word and also if you miss a correct one.
Use the 'Alternative grapheme settings' button to choose which graphemes to focus on. There are vowel and consonant grapheme-phoneme-correspondences to choose from.
Teaching tips:
Children will love this ‘Whack-a-mole’ style game asking them to identify graphemes to match the phoneme.
For similar activities relating to graphemes with the same sound, try ‘Baseball bash’ or ‘Magnet match’.
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