Phonics Fishing Game - Make Your Word Focuses Just a Little More Fun!

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(a fun reading game activity with interchangeable cards to meet your learners' needs)


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Phonics Game

This game is one of my students all time favourite reading resources. They have to fish for sight words using a home made fishing rod with a magnet attached to the end.

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To play this phonics game just download the file you require and print out all the brightly coloured fish and sight words cards onto thin cardboard and laminate them.

Next, spend a quiet evening in front of the TV indulging in a little therapy while you cut out all the fish :)

Once the cutting is complete attach the words to the back of the fish. After that attach the words with two paper clips to the fish. Next find a couple of twigs to make fishing rods from and then attach a magnet to the end of each rod in order to play the game.

These words are the words included in version one of the game.

short vowel
long vowel
short vowel
long vowel
win
us
cop
mat
twin
pan
kit
bit
tap
plan
rid
wine
use
cope
mate
twine
pane
kite
bite
tape
plane
ride
strip
cut
past
hid
cap
rat
hat
fat
fin
can
Tim
stripe
cute
paste
hide
cape
rate
hate
fate
fine
cane
time

How to play:

In my experience, it is best to let the kids invent their own rules for this game. They are very good at it and if you point out that the main purpose of the activity is to learn the given phonics rule and secondly to do it in a fun way they really do rise to the challenge.

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Phonics Fishing Game -
Full Word Version
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(fish included)
Word Game
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Phonics Fishing Game
Acrobat Version - 638k
(fish included)

Latest game words to attatch to the fish sent by caring/sharing teachers :)

sh
th
ch
wh, bl, cl
sheep
shirt
show
shark
shave
ship
shop
shack
thumb
thorn
think
thimble
thermo
thirteen
chair
chain
cheese
chop
chick
chin
check
cherry
whale
whistle
whisker
whip
blouse
block
clip
clock
cloud
climb

sh, th, ch, wh, bl & cl words
phonics game
Word List - Word Version - 36Kb
phonics game
Word List
Acrobat Version - 261k

i_e words

phonics game
Word List - Word Version - 36Kb
phonics game
Word List
Acrobat Version - 261k

Blank Cards

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Blank Cards
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Fill in this one to provide words for your class that meet their needs and then email it to me and I'll post it for the world to use!

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