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.
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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.