5 Phonics Flashcard Games

Have you got a set of flashcards and are now wondering what to do with them? Here are 10 fun games and activities to play using your Phonics Flashcards.

You could play these games using sounds, decodable words or tricky word cards. When selecting the cards to use for each game, include some they know to help with their confidence. Add or change the cards when they become confident with them, but come back to the same ones after a week or so, to make sure they can remember them.

Hide and Seek

Hide a sound/word card somewhere in the room, without your child looking. Ask them to find the card. As they search, say the sound/word on the card loudly when they are close or use a whispering voice when they are far away to help them find it.

From A - B

Place some sound/word cards around the room. Give your child instructions about how to move from one sound card to another e.g. hop to the sh, jump to the ai or tiptoe to the word to.

Sight Word Stepping Stones

Make a line of sound/word cards. Your child could hop, skip or jump along them, but they have to read the word before they can move to the next one. The quicker they can read them, the quicker they can travel. Set a timer and take turns to see who can be the quickest to get across them!

Noughts and Crosses

Draw a noughts and crosses board. Place a sound/word flashcard on each space. Take it in turns to read a sound/word and cover the card. The first person to get three in a row is the winner.

Bingo

Place 10 cards face up. Each player chooses 4 and copies the sounds/words onto their whiteboard/piece of paper. Shuffle the cards and place them in a pile face down. Choose one player to be the bingo caller. They choose a card and read it out loud. If anyone has that word/sound on their board they should cross it off. The winner is the first person to cross off all of their sounds/words.

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Tricky word cards: