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Word Tracing Game
This activity is fun for prereaders, beginning readers, and independent readers. Adapt it to your child's ability.
Materials- Family photos or photos from old magazines or catalogs Glue
- Homemade or store-bought picture cards showing things that represent simple words like hat, pig, and doll
- Pencil
- One sheet of paper per player
- One marker per player
Directions
- Divide the cards into as many equal sets as there are players. For each set, print the corresponding words faintly in pencil on a sheet of paper.
- Give one list to each player.
- Shuffle all the cards together and put them facedown in a pile.
- The first player draws a card, identifies the picture, then looks for the word on his list.
- If he finds it, he traces it with a marker. If he doesn't, he discards the card.
- The next player does the same, and the players take turns until there are no more cards in the pile.
- The player who has traced the most words at this point is the winner.
- A child playing alone can make a game of simply identifying the pictures, finding the words, and tracing the words.
- If all the players are independent readers, turn this into a spelling game.
- For this variation, you needn't make lists.
- When a player draws a card, he simply writes the word on a sheet of paper.
- When there are no cards left in the pile, the player who has spelled the most words correctly is the winner.
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Copyright © 2001 by Patricia Kuffner. Excerpted from The Children's Busy Book with permission of its publisher, Meadowbrook Press.
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