Follow the Alphabet Road
This game board could
be adapted to any sort of matching task.
Objectives
Children participating will be able to give the phonetic sound
of letters, match capital letters to lower case letters, identify letters,
follow a path (eye-hand coordination), and take turns. SE IV
Materials
Game Board: Large
sheet of paper with road and houses (Lower-case letters printed on each house
with last house being Mystery House); dice made from 1" cube blocks with
capital letters on each side; toy cars; box disguised as Mystery House with
raisins, nuts, and assorted goodies inside.
SEE ILLUSTRATION.
Procedures
1. Seat children around game board. Point to houses with
"small letters" and have several of these letters identified. Also
point out the "Mystery House" at the end of the road. Show the letter
die. Explain that each child may choose a car to drive along the Alphabet Road
to the Mystery House. Each child who reaches the Mystery House gets to reach in
the house and take a prize.
2. Have children take turns choosing and rolling a die, matching capital to
small letter, driving car to that matching letter, and giving or repeating the
letter's sound. If an earlier letter of alphabet is rolled, child rolls again.
3. As children reach the last letter on board, any additional roll will move
them to the Mystery House where they may take a treat. Game should continue
until all players have a prize. Variations
1. Delete the Mysery House and have children drive back and forth as their die indicates on the Alphabet Road. The process is fun and there is no hurry to get to a finish line. Add castles, ponds, jungles, sea monsters, etc. to the board game.
2. As a math project, use numerals and number sets.
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