PLAYING WITH LETTERS OF WORDS
GAME 13:
HOP-SCOTCH
This is a great way to use the play-ground, beach or garden to learn to
combine letter sounds!
Where to play these games:
Anywhere where you can draw a ‘hopscotch’grid.
Task (a): With 2-Letter Words
Equipment: 1)Chalk (preferably different colours)
or something with which to mark out the grid and write letters in it.
2) My First Word Worksheet (2-letter).
How to play:
Draw the grid as shown below. Use the chalk to print in each block. Use
the words from the worksheet. The block closest to where the child is standing
(the“start”) will have the first letter of the first 2-letter word. The next
block has the second letter. The two blocks that follow then have the 2-letter
word written with one letter in each block (see the example below). Your child
then hops, one foot where there is only one block in a line and two feet where
there are two blocks on the same line. Your child says each sound as he or she
hops in the block. So, working from the bottom of my hopscotch grid on the next
page, your child would hop and say: “a”; “n”; “an”; “i”; “f”; “if”; “u”; “p”;
“up”; “o’; “x”; “ox”.
Work through all the words on the 2-letter word worksheet, row by row.
You do not have to do all the words at once; some days you can play with the
words of one row and then leave the others for another time.
Click here to order your own copy. Your children will thank you!
GAME 13:
HOP-SCOTCH
This is a great way to use the play-ground, beach or garden to learn to
combine letter sounds!
Where to play these games:
Anywhere where you can draw a ‘hopscotch’grid.
Task (a): With 2-Letter Words
Equipment: 1)Chalk (preferably different colours)
or something with which to mark out the grid and write letters in it.
2) My First Word Worksheet (2-letter).
How to play:
Draw the grid as shown below. Use the chalk to print in each block. Use
the words from the worksheet. The block closest to where the child is standing
(the“start”) will have the first letter of the first 2-letter word. The next
block has the second letter. The two blocks that follow then have the 2-letter
word written with one letter in each block (see the example below). Your child
then hops, one foot where there is only one block in a line and two feet where
there are two blocks on the same line. Your child says each sound as he or she
hops in the block. So, working from the bottom of my hopscotch grid on the next
page, your child would hop and say: “a”; “n”; “an”; “i”; “f”; “if”; “u”; “p”;
“up”; “o’; “x”; “ox”.
Work through all the words on the 2-letter word worksheet, row by row.
You do not have to do all the words at once; some days you can play with the
words of one row and then leave the others for another time.
Click here to order your own copy. Your children will thank you!