FRY WORDS SIGHT WORD SLAP GAME
Everything you need to help build reading automaticity in game form.
What's included?
- Instruction sheet
- First 100 Fry words, each 25 color coded
- Game board
- 12 Alien emoji special cards
- 6 UFO special cards
How to play
2-4 players
Take turns flipping over cards with your opponent(s).
*Sight word card: read aloud and place it on it’s corresponding color on the board in front of you.
*Alien card: Uh oh! This alien has managed to sneakily grab some sight words. Check the color on the alien and give all words you have collected in that color back to the deck one at a time while reading them aloud.
*UFO card: The first player to “slap” the UFO icon on the table gets to all the cards in ANY one color from your opponents board to add to their own.
Player wins by having the most cards when all cards are gone or after a predetermined time limit.
Take turns flipping over cards with your opponent(s).
*Sight word card: read aloud and place it on it’s corresponding color on the board in front of you.
*Alien card: Uh oh! This alien has managed to sneakily grab some sight words. Check the color on the alien and give all words you have collected in that color back to the deck one at a time while reading them aloud.
*UFO card: The first player to “slap” the UFO icon on the table gets to all the cards in ANY one color from your opponents board to add to their own.
Player wins by having the most cards when all cards are gone or after a predetermined time limit.
why play?
Reading automaticity is fast, automatic, and effortless reading at the word level. When automaticity skills are high, the reader doesn't have to spend any cognitive resources sounding out words. Attractive word targets to establish automaticity are the words that are used most frequently. Dr. Edward B. Fry's "Fry Words" are the most common words in written text in order, and are an updated version of the "Dolch Words". In fact, Fry's First 100 words make up 50% of written text! Establishing automaticity requires practice and repetition, which makes drill-play an attractive approach. When the words are automatic, they should also be practiced in meaningful phrase and sentence work.
Read more about the importance of automaticity here:
http://eps.schoolspecialty.com/eps/media/site-resources/downloads/articles/importance_automaticity_fluency.pdf
Read more about the importance of automaticity here:
http://eps.schoolspecialty.com/eps/media/site-resources/downloads/articles/importance_automaticity_fluency.pdf
