Activities For Practising Sounds In Single Words

• Turn Taking Games

  Use games that you have at home (e.g. pop up pirate, monkey tree, snakes & ladders, jigsaws). Put a pile of pictures face down. Before having a turn in the game, pick a picture and say the word.

• Roll The Dice

  Roll a dice and repeat the word for the number of times shown on the dice.

• Lotto

  Each person has a sheet of pictures. Have another set of pictures cut up and placed face down. Take turns to turn over a picture and say the word. Who can fill up their lotto board first?

• Fishing Game

  Use a magnetic fishing game. Stick a picture on each fish (with blu tac or a paperclip) and put them face down. If you catch a fish, say the word on it. If you say it accurately, you can keep the fish, if not the other person gets it (or it goes back into the sea/pond).

• Stepping Stones

  Make some stepping stones, you could use cushions, pieces of paper or hoops. Put a picture on each ‘stone’ and put some pictures of crocodiles randomly in between some of the stepping stones.

  Take turns to throw the dice and move along the ‘stones’. If you land on a stepping stone, say the word. If it is incorrect, have another try. If you land on a crocodile, move back 1 space.

• Kim's Game

  Put some of pictures on the table. Your child looks at them for a while, and then closes or covers their eyes. Remove one (or more) picture. Ask your child to look again and guess which picture has gone.

• Post

  Have a post box (you could make one from a cereal box). Say the word before posting the picture into the box.

• Run

  Put some of the pictures around the room. Your child runs, hops, walks or skips to the picture and says the word.