Phonics Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 1 This Really Good Stuff® product includes: • 64 Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Playing Cards • This Really Good Stuff® Activity Guide Managing the Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 1 • Copy the Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Game Instructions. Laminate the instructions for repeated use. • When using the game at a literacy center, be sure to demonstrate how to store the playing cards and leave the center when the activity is complete. All activity guides can be found online: © 2009 Really Good Stuff® 1-800-366-1920 www.reallygoodstuff.com #302636 Congratulations on your purchase of the Really Good Stuff® Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 1 – a fun and exciting way for students to practice long vowel spelling patterns. With the Crazy Eights! Silent “e”, students can play games that will help them read and spell words with the silent “e” long vowel pattern. Through repeated play, students will easily identify long vowel sounds and recognize the silent “e” long vowel spelling pattern found in many primary reading materials. The low stress and repetitive nature of the game make it beneficial for all students. The Crazy Eights! Silent “e” is an excellent way to reinforce your long vowel instruction. Introducing the Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 1 After studying short vowel words, students are ready to look at long vowel words. The Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 1 features words with the most common silent “e” long vowel patterns that students encounter in early reading materials. By introducing this spelling pattern in a non-threatening, playful environment, students start to internalize the silent “e” spelling pattern and recognize long vowel sounds in other contexts. Introduce the Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Game to your group by explaining that the deck includes cards with long vowel words that have the silent “e” spelling pattern, eight Switch It Cards, and four Skip It Cards. On each word card, the consonants are black and the vowel is red, making it easier for students to identify and differentiate the sounds associated with each letter. There are 13 word cards for each vowel that follows the CVCe spelling pattern. The long e sound is not commonly spelled using this pattern and is not included in the deck. The idea is to match the vowel sound of the word on the table with the vowel sound of the players’ cards. If that is not possible, students can change it to a different vowel sound by putting down a Switch It Card. Players must say the vowel sound and read each word as they put down a card. For example, if the player’s card is take, the player says, “a like in take,” before putting down the card. This reinforces the vowel “a, like in take” sound and keeps all the students on track. Switch It and Skip It Cards • Switch It Cards: Players use each of the eight Switch It Cards in the deck to change the vowel sound that needs to be matched. For example, if a player already draws or has a Switch It Card along with ate, bake, base, life, and mice in hand, and the top card of the Play pile is cute, the player can use the Switch It Card to change the vowel sound that players must match. The player puts down the Switch It Card and the ate card and players continue by matching the long a sound of ate. To make the game more challenging, reduce the number of Switch It Cards to six. • Skip It Cards: Players use each of the four Skip It Cards in the deck when they cannot play a word card and do not have a Switch It Card. For example, if a player draws or has a Skip It Card along with four long e word cards, and the top card on the Play pile is tube, the player can put down the Skip It Card. Play continues using the tube card. Model the game using the instructions below until students are familiar with the rules and procedures and then allow them to play it at a literacy center. Copy the Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Game Instructions and make them available at the center. Assign an aide or student volunteer to deal the cards and oversee the game, making sure each player says every word aloud. Note about Long u Take time to note the difference in pronunciation in words with the long u sound. The vowel sounds in mule and tune are similar but not identical and cause confusion for some students. Half of the words in Crazy Eights! Silent “e” are pronounced like mule while the other half resemble the long u sound in tune. Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Game Instructions Two to six players Object of the game: To use all the cards in your hand and go out first by matching long vowel sounds. 1. Shuffle the deck and deal five cards to each player. Have students read their cards to themselves before the game begins. Decide on the order of play. 2. Place all the remaining cards in a stack facedown in the middle of the table. This stack will be the Draw pile. 3. Turn over the top card and place it faceup next to the Draw pile. This will be the Play pile. 4. The first player reads this card by pronouncing the sound of the letter printed in red and then reads the word, for example, “o, like in robe.” If Player 1 has a card that matches the vowel sound, Player 1 places it on top of the Play pile saying, “o ,like in cone.” If the player does not have a card that matches that vowel sound, the player draws a new card. If the card picked is a match, Player 1 can put it down; if not, Player 1 keeps the card and the turn is over. 5. If a player does not have a match but has a Switch It Card, the player can change the sound being matched. For example, if the Play pile has cone on top and the player has hive, fine, and huge in hand, a Switch It Card could be used to change the vowel to i, as in hive, and the hive card becomes the new card on top of the Play pile. 6. If the player does not have a match but has a Skip It Card, the player can put it down. Play continues using the long vowel sound of the word before the Skip It Card. 7. Players take turns matching vowel sounds and reading the words aloud. If necessary, shuffle the playing pile, turn it over, and continue playing until one player is out of cards. 8. The first player without any cards is the winner. Variations: • Add difficulty and extend play by including fewer Switch It Cards. • Continue play until all the players run out of cards. • Add mobility to the game by having students switch seats in addition to switching a vowel sound with their Switch It Cards. Extensions Add extra oral language practice: • After playing the game, choose one long vowel. Find all the cards with the target long vowel sound. As a group, tell a simple story or make up a riddle using the word cards. face • During play, have students say a rhyming word along with the word printed on their cards. Add extra written practice: • After the game, distribute a sorting grid with four columns, one for each long vowel spelling pattern. Have students label each column with a vowel pattern and a sample word. For example, the first column could be long a with the sample word face written underneath. Use the cards to do a blind sort. Select a card, read the word on it and have students write it onto their sorting grid in the correct column. Have students write additional words in each column Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 1 on their own. a-e i-e o-e u-e ate bike code cube Skip It bake dime cone cute Skip It base file dome dude Skip It Related products available came fine doze dune Skip It through Really Good Stuff®: cave hive hole fuse Switch It Crazy Eights! 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All activity guides can be found online: © 2009 Really Good Stuff® 1-800-366-1920 www.reallygoodstuff.com #302639 Congratulations on your purchase of the Really Good Stuff® Crazy Eights! Vowel Pairs – a fun and exciting way for students to practice complex long vowel spelling patterns. With the Crazy Eights! Vowel Pairs, students can play games that will help them read words with complex long vowel patterns. Through repeated play, students will begin to recognize the spelling patterns that most frequently occur in words with long a and long e sounds. The low stress and repetitive nature of the game make it beneficial for all students. The Crazy Eights! Vowel Pairs is an excellent way to reinforce your long vowel instruction. Introducing the Crazy Eights! Vowel Pairs After studying the silent “e” long vowel spelling pattern, students are ready to look at other letter combinations that make long vowel sounds. The Crazy Eights! Vowel Pairs feature words with four common spelling patterns for the long a and long e sounds. Students at this point must not only be able to distinguish which vowel sound they hear, but they also have the added task of choosing which vowel spelling pattern is correct. By exhibiting these spelling patterns in a non-threatening, playful environment, students start to internalize the vowel combinations and discover commonalities among words. For example, after repeated play, students will notice that the long a pattern ai occurs within words, as in braid, while the ay pattern occurs in the ending position of words or syllables, as in day and maybe. Introduce the Crazy Eights! Vowel Pairs Game to your group by explaining that the deck includes cards with long vowel words that have complex spelling patterns, eight Switch It Cards, and four Skip It Cards. On each word card, the consonants are black and the vowel is red, making it easier for students to identify and differentiate the sounds associated with each letter or letter cluster. There are two spelling patterns for words with the long a sound – ai and ay, and two spelling patterns for those with the long e sound – ea and ee. There are 13 word cards for each vowel pattern. The idea of the game is to match the long vowel spelling pattern of the word on the table with that of the players’ cards. If that is not possible, students can change it to a different spelling pattern by putting down a Switch It Card. Players must say the vowel sound and read each word as they put down a card. For example, if the player’s card is nail, the player says, “ai, like in nail” before putting down the card. This reinforces the vowel sound and keeps all the “ai, like in nail” students on track. Switch It and Skip It Cards • Switch It Cards: Players use each of the eight Switch It Cards in the deck to change the vowel pattern that needs to be matched. For example, if a player already draws or has a Switch It Cards along with play, say, stay, and sneak in hand, and the top card of the Play pile is rain, the player can use the Switch It Cards to change the vowel pattern that players must match. The player puts down the Switch It Cards and the play card and players continue by matching the long a spelling pattern ay in play. To make the game more challenging, reduce the number of Switch It Cards to six. • Skip It Cards: Players use each of the four Skip It Cards in the deck when they cannot play a word card and do not have a Switch It Cards. For example, if a player draws or has a Skip It Card along with four words with the long a spelling pattern ai, and the top card on the Play pile is play, the player can put down the Skip It Card. Play continues using the play card. Model the game using the instructions below until students are familiar with the rules and procedures and then allow them to play it at a literacy center. Copy the Crazy Eights! Vowel Pairs Game Instructions and make them available at the center. Assign an aide or student volunteer to deal the cards and oversee the game, making sure each player says every word aloud. Crazy Eights! Vowel Pairs Game Instructions Two to six players Object of the game: To use all the cards in your hand and go out first by matching long vowel spelling patterns. 1. Shuffle the deck and deal five cards to each player. Have students read their cards to themselves before the game begins. Decide on the order of play. 2. Place all the remaining cards in a stack facedown in the middle of the table. This stack will be the Draw pile. 3. Turn over the top card and place it faceup next to the Draw pile. This will be the Play pile. 4. The first player reads this card by stating the vowel pattern printed in red and then reads the word, for example, “ay, like in stay.” If Player 1 has a card that matches the long vowel spelling pattern, Player 1 places it on top of the pile saying, “ay, like in clay.” If the player does not have a card that matches that spelling pattern, the player draws a new card. If the card picked is a match, Player 1 can put it down; if not, Player 1 keeps the card and the turn is over. 5. If a player does not have a match but has a Switch It Card, the player can change the spelling pattern being matched. For example, if the Play pile has clay on top and the player has seat, steal, and seek in hand, a Switch It Card could be used to change the vowel pattern to ea, as in seat, and the seat card becomes the new card on top of the Play pile. 6. Players take turns matching vowel patterns and reading the words aloud. If necessary, shuffle the Play pile, turn it over, and continue playing until one player is out of cards. 7. The first player without any cards left is the winner. Variations: • Extend play by including fewer Switch It Card. • Continue play until all the players run out of cards. • Add mobility to the game by having students switch seats in addition to switching a vowel pattern with their Switch It Card. Extensions Add extra oral language practice: • After playing the game, choose one long vowel pattern. Find all the cards with the target long vowel pattern. As a group, tell a simple story or make up a riddle using the word cards. • During play, have students say a rhyming word along with the word printed on their cards. Add extra written practice: • After the game, distribute a sorting grid with four columns, one for each long vowel spelling pattern. Have students label each column with a vowel pattern and a sample word. For example, the first column could be the ai, with the sample word braid written underneath. Use the cards to do a blind sort. Select a card, read the word on it, and have students write it onto their sorting grid in the correct column. Have students write additional words in each column on their own. Reflect on the position of the vowel patterns within these words. Crazy Eights! Vowel Pairs ai afraid braid maid mail main nail paid pail paint rain tail train waist ay always clay gray hooray jay may maybe play say stay stray today tray ea beam beat clean cleat heap mean seam seat sneak steal stream tea teach ee bee beef bleed cheese eel jeep peep reed see seek sneeze steel street Skip It Skip It Skip It Skip It Switch It Switch It Switch It! Switch It! Switch It! Switch It! Switch It! Switch It! Related products available through Really Good Stuff®: Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 1 (#302645) Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 2 (#302647) Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 1 (#302636) Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 2 (#302641) Phonics Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 2 This Really Good Stuff® product includes: • 64 Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Playing Cards • This Really Good Stuff® Activity Guide Managing the Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 2 • Copy the Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Game Instructions. Laminate the instructions for repeated use. • When using the game at a literacy center, be sure to demonstrate how to store the playing cards and leave the center when the activity is complete. All activity guides can be found online: © 2009 Really Good Stuff® 1-800-366-1920 www.reallygoodstuff.com #302641 Congratulations on your purchase of the Really Good Stuff® Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 2 – a fun and exciting way for students to practice long vowel spelling patterns. With the Crazy Eights! Silent “e”, students can play games that will help them read and spell words with the silent “e” long vowel pattern. Through repeated play, students will easily identify long vowel sounds and recognize the silent “e” long vowel spelling pattern found in many primary reading materials. The low stress and repetitive nature of the game make it beneficial for all students. The Crazy Eights! Silent “e” is an excellent way to reinforce your long vowel instruction. Introducing the Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 2 After studying short vowel words, students are ready to look at long vowel words. The Crazy Eights! Silent “e” features words that contain beginning blends and digraphs along with the most common silent “e” long vowel patterns that students encounter in their reading materials. By exhibiting this spelling pattern in a non-threatening, playful environment, students start to internalize the silent “e” spelling pattern and recognize long vowel sounds in longer, more complex words. Introduce the Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Game to your group by explaining that the deck includes cards with long vowel words that have the silent “e” spelling pattern, eight Switch It Cards, and four Skip It Cards. On each word card, the letters of the silent “e” vowel pattern are red, making it easier for students to identify and differentiate the long vowel sound. Two-thirds of the deck includes single syllable words with digraphs or double and triple blends while the remaining cards have words with two syllables. There are 13 word cards for each vowel that follows the CVCe spelling pattern. The long e sound is not commonly spelled using this pattern and is not included in the deck. The idea of the game is to match the vowel sound of the word on the table with the vowel sound of the players’ cards. If that is not possible, students can change it to a different vowel sound by putting down a Switch It Card. Players must say the vowel sound and read each word as they put down a card. For example, if the player’s card is change, the player says, “a, like in change” before putting down the card. This reinforces the vowel sound and “a, like in change” keeps all the students on track. Switch It and Skip It Cards • Switch It Cards: Players use each of the eight Switch It Cards in the deck to change the vowel sound that needs to be matched. For example, if a player already draws or has a Switch It Card along with glide, knife, smile, and place in hand, and the top card of the Play pile is smoke, the player can use the Switch It Card to change the vowel sound that players must match. The player puts down the Switch It Card and the glide card and players continue by matching the long i sound of glide. To make the game more challenging, reduce the number of Switch It Cards to six. • Skip It Cards: Players use each of the four Skip It Cards in the deck when they cannot play a word card and do not have a Switch It Card. For example, if a player draws or has a Skip It Card along with four long o word cards, and the top card on the Play pile is glide, the player can put down the Skip It Card. Play continues using the glide card. Model the game using the instructions below until students are familiar with the rules and procedures and then allow them to play it at a literacy center. Copy the Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Game Instructions and make them available at the center. Assign an aide or student volunteer to deal the cards and oversee the game, making sure each player says every word aloud. Note about Long u Take time to note the difference in pronunciation in words with the long u sound. The long u vowel sounds in spruce and refuge are similar but not identical and cause confusion for some students. Most of the words in the Crazy Eights! Silent “e” are pronounced like spruce while a few take on the long u sound in refuge. Pointing out a difference in pronunciation will help students during the game. Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Game Instructions Two to six players Object of the game: To use all the cards in your hand and go out first by matching long vowel sounds. 1. Shuffle the deck and deal five cards to each player. Have students read their cards to themselves before the game begins. Decide on the order of play. 2. Place all the remaining cards in a stack facedown on the table. 3. Turn over the top card and place it faceup next to the Draw pile. This will be the Play pile. 4. The first player reads this card by pronouncing the sound of the letter printed in red and then reads the word, for example, “i, like in drive.” If Player 1 has a card that matches the vowel sound, Player 1 places it on top of the pile saying, “i, like in knife.” If the player does not have a card that matches that vowel sound, the player draws a new card. If the card picked is a match, Player 1 can put it down; if not, Player 1 keeps the card and the turn is over. 5. If a player does not have a match but has a Switch It Card, the player can change the sound being matched. For example, if the Play pile has knife on top and the player has flute, prune, and blame in hand, a Switch It Card could be used to change the vowel to u, as in flute, and the flute card becomes the new card on top of the Play pile. 6. If the player does not have a match but has a Skip It Card, the player can put it down. Play continues using the long vowel sound of the word before the Skip It Card. 7. Players take turns matching vowel sounds and reading the words aloud. If necessary, shuffle the playing pile, turn it over, and continue playing until one player is out of cards. 8. The first player without any cards is the winner. Variations: • Add difficulty and extend play by including fewer Switch It Cards. • Continue play until all the players run out of cards. • Add mobility to the game by having students switch seats in addition to switching a vowel sound with their Switch It Cards. Extensions Add extra oral language practice: • After playing the game, choose one long vowel. Find all the cards with the target long vowel sound. As a group, tell a simple story or make up a riddle using the word cards. • During play, have students say a rhyming word along with the word printed on their cards. Add extra written practice: • After the game, distribute a sorting grid with four columns, one for each vowel that has the CVCe spelling pattern. Have students label each column with a vowel sound and a sample word. For example, the first column could be long a, with the sample word brace written underneath. Have students use their anthologies or classroom library to do a word hunt alone or in pairs. Set a time limit and see how many words each student pair can find. Review the word lists, Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 2 eliminating any words that are i-e o-e u-e repeated. Make a large four-column a-e brute Skip It class grid using butcher paper and became chime broke blame decide chose chute Skip It add all student words to the grid. brace drive drove crude Skip It Related products available change glide explode flute Skip It through Really Good Stuff®: chase knife globe fortune Switch It Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 1 flake mobile phone immune Switch It (#302645) grade provide quote plume Switch It Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 2 parade smile slope prude Switch It (#302647) place spice smoke prune Switch It Crazy Eights! Vowel Pairs shape stride stove reduce Switch It (#302639) strange thrive those refuge Switch It Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 1 trade whine throne spruce Switch It (#302636) whale white wrote truce Introducing the Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 1 Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 1 This Really Good Stuff® product includes: • 64 Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Playing Cards • This Really Good Stuff® Activity Guide Managing the Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 1 • Copy the Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Game Instructions. Laminate the instructions for repeated use. • When using the game at a literacy center, be sure to demonstrate how to store the playing cards and leave the center when the activity is complete. All activity guides can be found online: © 2009 Really Good Stuff® 1-800-366-1920 www.reallygoodstuff.com #302645 Congratulations on your purchase of the Really Good Stuff® Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 1 – a fun and exciting way for students to practice short vowel CVC words. With the Crazy Eights! Short Vowels, students can play games that will help them read and spell simple CVC words. Through repeated play, early readers will easily identify short vowel sounds and recognize the common short vowel CVC spelling pattern found in many primary reading materials. The low stress and repetitive nature of the game make it beneficial for all students but especially those who struggle with decoding short vowel words in other settings. The Crazy Eights! Short Vowels are an excellent way to reinforce your short vowel instruction. Before playing the Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Game, use the list of words in this set or take examples of short vowel words from your students’ guided readers or anthologies to draw attention to the different vowel sounds of the English language. Read a few short vowel words aloud, such as tin, men, and tan, and ask students to identify the vowels responsible for making these sounds. Challenge students to write down the vowel sounds they hear or point to them as you read each word aloud. As a group, brainstorm a list of short vowel words, organizing it into short vowel categories. Once students can identify the short vowels and decode CVC words, they are ready to play the Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Game. Introduce the game to your group by explaining that the deck includes words that contain each short vowel sound, seven Swap It! Cards and two Skip It! Cards. On each word card, the consonants are black and the vowel is red, making it easier for students to identify and differentiate the sounds associated with each letter. The idea is to match the vowel sound of the word on the table with the vowel sound of rug each player’s cards. If that is not possible, students can fan cat change it to a different vowel sound by putting down a Swap It! Card. Players must say the vowel sound and read each word as they put down a card. For example, if the player’s card is cat, the player says, “a like in cat” before putting “a, like in cat” down the card. This reinforces the vowel sound and keeps all the students on track. fan cat rug Phonics Switch It and Skip It Cards • Switch It Cards: Players use each of the seven Switch It Cards in the deck to change the vowel sound that needs to be matched. For example, if a player already draws or has a Switch It Card along with fed, hen, lip, nip, and pin in hand, and the top card of the Play pile is jug, the player can use the Switch It Card to change the vowel sound that players must match. The player puts down the Switch It Card and the lip card and players continue by matching the short i sound of lip. • Skip It Cards: Players use each of the two Skip It Cards in the deck when they cannot play a word card and do not have a Switch It Card. For example, if a player draws or has a Skip It Card along with four short a word cards, and the top card on the Play pile is jug, the player can put down the Skip It Card. Play continues using the jug card. Model the game using the instructions below until students are familiar with the rules and procedures and then allow them to play it at a literacy center. Copy the Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Game Instructions and make them available at the center. Assign an aide or student volunteer to deal the cards and oversee the game, making sure each player says every word aloud. Variations: • Add difficulty and extend play by including fewer Switch It Cards. • Continue play until all the players run out of cards. • Add mobility to the game by having students switch seats in addition to switching a vowel sound with their Switch It Cards. Extensions Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Game Instructions Two to six players Object of the game: To use all the cards in your hand and go out first by matching short vowel sounds. 1. Shuffle the deck and deal five cards to each player. Have students read their cards to themselves before the game begins. Decide on the order of play. 2. Place all the remaining cards in a stack facedown in the middle of the table. This stack will be the Draw pile. 3. Turn over the top card and place it faceup next to the Draw pile. This will be the Play pile. 4. The first player reads this card by pronouncing the sound of the letter printed in red and then reads the word. For example, “a, like in ran.” If Player 1 has a card that matches the vowel sound, Player 1 places it on top of the pile saying, “a, like in wag.” If the player does not have a card that matches that vowel sound, the player draws a new card. If the card picked is a match, Player 1 can put it down; if not, Player 1 keeps the card and the turn is over. 5. If the player does not have a match but has a Switch It Card, the player can change the sound being matched. For example, if the Play pile has wag on top and the player has log, not and run in his or her hand, a Switch It Card could be used to change the vowel to o, as in log, and the log card becomes the new card on top of the Play pile. 6. If the player does not have a match but has a Skip It Card, he or she can put it down. Play continues using the short vowel sound of the word before the Skip It Card. 7. Players take turns matching vowel sounds and reading the words aloud. If necessary, shuffle the playing pile, turn it over, and continue playing until one player is out of cards. 8. The first player without any cards is the winner. Add extra oral language practice: • After playing the game, select a card and say it aloud slowly, stretching each sound, mmm-aaa-nnn. Have students identify the word and the short vowel sound it contains. • Have students say a rhyming word along with the word printed on their cards. Add extra written practice: • After the game, distribute a sorting grid with five columns, one for each vowel. Have students label each column with a vowel and a sample word or picture. For example, the first column could be short a, with the sample word hat written underneath. Use the cards to do a blind sort. Select a card, read the word on it and have students write it onto their sorting grid in the correct column. Related products available through Really Good Stuff®: Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 2 (#302647) Crazy Eights! Vowel Pairs (#302639) Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 1 (#302636) Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 2 (#302641) Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 1 a e i o u bad bet did boss but cat cell fig cot cub dab fed gill dog dug fan hen rig fog fun gas keg Jim hop gum hat leg lid job jug jam pet nip log nut lap red pill mob puff mad ten pin not rug ran vet sit pop sun wag wed win toss tub Skip It Skip It Switch It Switch It Switch It Switch It Switch It Switch It Switch It Introducing the Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 2 Phonics Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 2 This Really Good Stuff® product includes: • 64 Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Playing Cards • This Really Good Stuff® Activity Guide Managing the Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 2 • Copy the Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Game Instructions. Laminate the instructions for repeated use. • When using the game at a literacy center, be sure to demonstrate how to store the playing cards and leave the center when the activity is complete. All activity guides can be found online: © 2009 Really Good Stuff® 1-800-366-1920 www.reallygoodstuff.com #302647 Congratulations on your purchase of the Really Good Stuff® Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 2 – a fun and exciting way for students to practice short vowel CVCC and CCVCC words. With the Crazy Eights! Short Vowels, students can play games that will help them read and spell complex short vowel words that contain beginning and ending blends and digraphs. Through repeated play, early readers will easily identify short vowel sounds and recognize the common consonant clusters found in many primary reading materials. The low stress and repetitive nature of the game make it beneficial for all students but especially those who struggle with blending consonant clusters with vowels in other settings. The Crazy Eights! Short Vowels is an excellent way to reinforce your short vowel instruction. Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 2 features the most common short vowel phonograms students encounter in early reading materials. After studying CVC words, students are ready to tackle the longer, short vowel words that contain beginning and ending blends and digraphs found in this set. By introducing these letter patterns in a non-threatening, playful environment, students begin to internalize short vowel spelling patterns and longer words become more readable. Repeated play increases reading fluency and automaticity. Introduce the Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Game to your group by explaining that the deck includes words that contain each short vowel sound and seven Switch It Cards. On each word card, the consonants are black and the vowel is red, making it easier for students to identify and differentiate the sounds associated with each letter or letter cluster. The idea is to match the vowel sound of the word on the table with the vowel sound of the players’ cards. If that is not possible, students can change it to a different vowel sound by putting down a Switch It Card. Players must say the vowel sound and read each word as they put down a card. For example, if the player’s card is shin, the player says, “i, like in shin” before putting “i, like in shin” down the card. This reinforces the vowel sound and keeps all the students on track. Switch It and Skip It Cards • Switch It Cards: Players use each of the seven Switch It Cards in the deck to change the vowel sound that needs to be matched. For example, if a player already draws or has a Switch It Card along with nest, sled, rock, knot, and glob in hand, and the top card of the Play pile is crab, the player can use the Switch It Card to change the vowel sound that players must match. The player puts down the Switch It Card and the rock card and players continue by matching the short o sound of rock. • Skip It Cards: Players use each of the two Skip It Cards in the deck when they cannot play a word card and do not have a Switch It Card. For example, if a player draws or has a Skip It Card along with four short a word cards, and the top card on the Play pile is rock, the player can put down the Skip It Card. Play continues using the rock card. Model the game using the instructions below until students are familiar with the rules and procedures and then allow them to play it at a literacy center. Copy the Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Game Instructions and make them available at the center. Assign an aide or student volunteer to deal the cards and oversee the game, making sure each player says every word aloud. Variations: • Add difficulty and extend play by including fewer Switch It Cards. • Continue play until all the players run out of cards. • Add mobility to the game by having students switch seats in addition to switching a vowel sound with their Switch It Cards. Extensions Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Game Instructions Two to six players Object of the game: To use all the cards in your hand and go out first by matching short vowel sounds. 1. Shuffle the deck and deal 5 cards to each player. Have students read their cards to themselves before the game begins. Decide on the order of play. 2. Place all the remaining cards in a stack facedown in the middle of the table. This stack will be the Draw pile. 3. Turn over the top card and place it faceup next to the Draw pile. This will be the Play pile. 4. The first player reads this card by pronouncing the sound of the letter printed in red and then reads the word. For example, “o, like in spot.” If Player 1 has a card that matches the vowel sound, Player 1 places it on top of the pile saying, “o, like in block.” If the player does not have a card that matches that vowel sound, the player draws a new card. If the card picked is a match, Player 1 can put it down; if not, Player 1 keeps the card and the turn is over. 5. If the player does not have a match but has a Switch It Card, the player can change the sound being matched. For example, if the Play pile has slug on top and the player has gram, dash, and nest in hand, a Switch It Card could be used to change the vowel to a, as in gram, and the gram card becomes the new card on top of the Play pile. 6. If the player does not have a match but has a Skip It Card, the player can put it down. Play continues using the short vowel sound of the word before the Skip It Card. 7. Players take turns matching vowel sounds and reading the words aloud. If necessary, shuffle the playing pile, turn it over, and continue playing until one player is out of cards. 8. The first player without any cards is the winner. Add extra oral language practice: • After playing the game, select a card and say it aloud slowly, stretching each sound, ssshhh-uuu-t. Have students identify the word and the short vowel sound it contains. • Have students say a rhyming word along with the word printed on their cards. Add extra written practice: • After the game, distribute a sorting grid with five columns, one for each vowel. Have students label each column with a vowel and a sample word or picture. For example, the first column could be short a, with the sample word sand written underneath. Have students use their anthologies or classroom library to do a word hunt alone or in pairs. Set a time limit and see how many words each student pair can find. Review the word lists, eliminating any words that are repeated. Make a large five-column class grid using chart paper and add all student words to the grid. Related products available through Really Good Stuff®: Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 1 (#302645) Crazy Eights! Vowel Pairs (#302639) Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 1 (#302636) Crazy Eights! Silent “e” Set 2 (#302641) Crazy Eights! Short Vowel Set 2 a e i o u black best chill block bump chat check drink chop chug crab deck grim clog crust dash fret lick drop hush glad nest quit glob junk gram send ring knot plum hang sled shin rock shut sand spend shrink spot slug wrap swell skid strong trunk yank then whip throb wrung stack wet tick dot rush Skip It Skip It Switch It Switch It Switch It Switch It Switch It Switch It Switch It Phonics Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowels Set 1 This Really Good Stuff® product includes: • 64 Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowels Playing Cards • This Really Good Stuff® Activity Guide Managing Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowels • Copy the Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowels Game Instructions. Laminate the instructions for repeated use. • When using the game at a literacy center, be sure to demonstrate how to store the playing cards and leave the center when the activity is complete. All activity guides can be found online: © 2009 Really Good Stuff® 1-800-366-1920 www.reallygoodstuff.com #303358 Made in Guangzhou,China Congratulations on your purchase of Really Good Stuff® Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowels—a fun and engaging way for students to practice r-controlled spelling patterns. these spelling patterns in a nonthreatening, playful environment, students start to internalize the r-controlled vowel combinations and discover commonalities among words. For example, the ar combination occurs at the end of or within words, as in far and farm, while ir usually occurs within words, R-controlled R-controlled as in bird. Introducing these two-letter Vowel Patterns Vowel Patterns combinations gives way to more complex rSet 1 Set 2 ar are controlled vowel patterns that are introduced in er eer Set 2 of Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowels. The ir ear table at right gives a complete list of patterns or ire covered in both sets. ur ore ure Introduce the Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowels game to your group by explaining that the deck includes Cards with r-controlled vowel words, seven Switch It! Cards, and two Skip It! Cards. There are 11 word Cards for each r-controlled vowel pattern giving students repeated exposure to these spelling patterns. The idea of the game is to match the r-controlled vowel spelling pattern of the word on the table with that of the players’ Cards. If that is not possible, students can change it to a different spelling pattern by putting down a Switch It! Card. Players must say the vowel sound and read each word as they put down a Card. For example, if the player’s Card is barn, the player says, “ar, like in barn,” before “ar, like in barn” putting down the Card. This reinforces the r-controlled vowel sound and keeps all the students on track. With Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowels, students can play games that will help them read and spell words with r-controlled vowel patterns. Through repeated play, students will begin to recognize the spelling patterns that most frequently occur in words with r-controlled vowels. The low stress and repetitive nature of the game make it beneficial for all students. Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowels is an excellent way to reinforce your vowel instruction. Introducing Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowels After studying long vowel spelling patterns, students are ready to look at vowels that are influenced by r. Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowels features words with five common r-controlled vowel spelling patterns—ar, er, ir, or, and ur. By exhibiting Switch It! and Skip It! Cards • Switch It! Cards: Players use each of the seven Switch It! Cards in the deck to change the r-controlled vowel pattern that needs to be matched. For example, if a player already draws or has a Switch It! Card along with her, clerk, perk, and form in hand, and the top Card of the Playing pile is barn, the player can use the Switch It! Card to change the r-controlled vowel pattern that players must match. The player puts down the Switch It! Card and the her card and players continue by matching the er spelling pattern in her. • Skip It! Cards: Players use the two Skip It! Cards in the deck when they cannot play a word Card and do not have a Switch It! Card. For example, if a player draws or has a Skip It! Card along with four words with the spelling pattern ur, and the top Card on the Playing pile is her, the player can put down the Skip It! Card. Play continues using the her Card. Model the game using the instructions below until students are familiar with the rules and procedures, and then allow them to play it at a literacy center. Copy the Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowels Game Instructions and make it available at the center. Assign an aide or student volunteer to deal the Cards and oversee the game, making sure each player says every word aloud. Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowels Game Instructions Two to six players Object of the game: To use all the Cards in your hand by matching the r-controlled vowel spelling patterns and go out first. 1. Shuffle the deck and deal five Cards to each player. Have students read their Cards to themselves before the game begins. Decide on the order of play. 2. Place all the remaining Cards in a stack facedown in the middle of the table. This stack will be the Draw pile. 3. Turn over the top Card and place it faceup next to the Draw pile. 4. The first player reads this Card by saying the r-controlled vowel and reading the word, for example, “ar, like in hard.” If Player 1 has a Card that matches the r-controlled vowel spelling pattern, he or she places it on top of the pile saying, “ar, like in tar.” If the player does not have a Card that matches that spelling pattern, the player draws a new Card. If the Card picked is a match, Player 1 can put it down; if not, Player 1 can keep the Card and the turn is over. 5. If the player does not have a match but has a Switch It! Card, the player can change the spelling pattern being matched. For example, if the Playing pile has tar on top and the player has first, twirl and dirt in his or her hand, a Switch It! Card could be used to change the r-controlled vowel pattern to ir as in first, and the first Card becomes the new Card on top of the Playing pile. 6. If the player does not have a match but has a Skip It! Card, the player can put it down. Play continues using the r-controlled vowel spelling pattern of the word before the Skip It! Card. 7. Players take turns matching the r-controlled vowel patterns and reading the words aloud. If necessary, shuffle the Playing pile, turn it over, and continue playing until one player is out of Cards. 8. The first player without any Cards is the winner. Variations: • Add difficulty and extend play by including fewer Switch It! Cards. • Continue play until all the players run out of Cards. • Add mobility to the game by having students switch seats in addition to switching an r-controlled vowel pattern with their Switch It! Cards. Extensions Add extra oral language practice: • After playing the game, choose one r-controlled vowel pattern. Find all the Cards with the target vowel pattern. As a group, tell a simple story or make up a riddle using the word Cards. • During play, have students say a rhyming word along with the word printed on their Card. Add extra written practice: ar er ir or ur • After the game, distribute a sorting grid with five columns, one for each r-controlled vowel far her bird fort hurt spelling pattern. Have students label each star fern stir cord fur herd chirp torn burn column with a vowel pattern and a sample word. bar For example, the first column could be ar, with the sample word far written underneath. Use the Cards to do a blind sort. Select a Card, read the word on it, and have students write it onto their sorting grid in the correct column. Have students write additional words in each column on their own. Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowels Card List Related Really Good Stuff® Products: Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowels Set 2 (#303360) ar car star bar tar far hard tart chart dart barn chard er perch clerk perk her fern herd jerk germ term stern herb ir stir bird first twirl dirt girl third chirp skirt shirt birth or cork cord fort torn born port short form thorn sort corn ur hurt hurl blurt fur burn curb surf turn curl blur purr Switch It! Switch It! Switch It! Switch It! Switch It! Switch It! Switch It! Skip It! Skip It! Introducing Crazy Eights! Abstract Vowels Phonics Crazy Eights! Abstract Vowels This Really Good Stuff® product includes: • 64 Crazy Eights! Abstract Vowel Playing Cards • This Really Good Stuff® Activity Guide Managing Crazy Eights! Abstract Vowels • Copy the Crazy Eights! Abstract Vowels Game Instructions. Laminate the instructions for repeated use. • When using the game at a literacy center, be sure to demonstrate how to store the playing cards and leave the center when the activity is complete. All activity guides can be found online: © 2009 Really Good Stuff® 1-800-366-1920 www.reallygoodstuff.com #303363 Made in Guangzhou,China Congratulations on your purchase of Really Good Stuff® Crazy Eights! Abstract Vowels—a fun and engaging way for students to practice reading words with diphthongs and complex vowel patterns (“abstract vowels”). With Crazy Eights! Abstract Vowels, students can play games that will help them read and spell words with diphthongs and complex vowel patterns. Through repeated play, students will begin to recognize the spelling patterns that most frequently occur in words with these often confused vowel patterns. The low stress and repetitive nature of the game make it beneficial for all students. Crazy Eights! Abstract Vowels is an excellent way to reinforce your vowel instruction. After studying r-controlled vowels, students are ready to look at other complex vowel patterns. Crazy Eights! Abstract Vowels features words with six spelling patterns – oi, oy, ow, ou, aw, and au. The nonthreatening, playful environment characteristic of Crazy Eights! helps students internalize the sound and spelling of these more difficult vowel combinations. For example, after repeated play students will notice commonalities among words—whereas oi and oy make the same sound, oi occurs within words, as in join, and oy occurs at the end of words, as in boy. Introduce Crazy Eights! Abstract Vowels game to your group by explaining that the deck includes cards with words that contain diphthongs and complex vowel patterns, eight Switch It! Cards, and two Skip It! Cards. There are nine word cards for each vowel pattern giving students repeated exposure to six different spelling patterns. The idea of the game is to match the vowel pattern of the word on the table with that of the players’ cards. If that is not possible, “oi, like in soil” students can change it to a different pattern by putting down a Switch It! Card. Players must say the vowel sound and read each word as they put down a card. For example, if the player’s card is soil, the player says, “oi, like in soil ” before putting down the card. This reinforces the vowel sound and keeps all the students on track. Switch It! and Skip It! Cards • Switch It! Cards: Players use each of the eight Switch It! Cards in the deck to change the vowel pattern that needs to be matched. For example, if a player already draws or has a Switch It! Card along with growl, frown, clown, and claw in hand, and the top card of the playing pile is soil, the player can use the Switch It! Card to change the vowel pattern that players must match. The player puts down the Switch It! Card and the growl card and players continue by matching the ow pattern in growl. • Skip It! Cards: Players use the two Skip It! Cards in the deck when they cannot play a word card and do not have a Switch It! Card. For example, if a player draws or has a Skip It! Card along with four words with the pattern aw, and the top card on the playing pile is growl, the player can put down the Skip It! Card. Play continues using the growl card. Model the game using the instructions below until students are familiar with the rules and procedures, and then allow them to play it at a literacy center. Copy the Crazy Eights! Abstract Vowels Game Instructions and make it available at the center. Assign an aide or student volunteer to deal the cards and oversee the game, making sure each player says every word aloud. Note about ow and au: Students may notice that ow and au sometimes make sounds other than those presented in this set. Be sure to explain that in this set of playing cards, ow is a diphthong, as in cow, but also makes the long o sound as in show. Similarly au, which in this set is pronounced like cause, functions differently in words like because and laugh. Crazy Eights! Abstract Vowels Game Instructions Two to six players Object of the game: To use all the cards in your hand by matching the diphthong or complex vowel patterns and go out first. 1. Shuffle the deck and deal five cards to each player. Have students read their cards to themselves before the game begins. Decide on the order of play. 2. Place all the remaining cards in a stack facedown in the middle of the table. This stack will be the Draw pile. 3. Turn over the top card and place it faceup next to the Draw pile. 4. The first player reads this card by pronouncing the diphthong or complex vowel and then reads the word, for example, “ow, like in growl.” If Player 1 has a card that matches the vowel pattern, he or she places it on top of the pile saying, “ow, like in town.” If the player does not have a card that matches that pattern, he or she draws a new card. If the card picked is a match, Player 1 can put it down; if not, they keep the card and the turn is over. 5. If the player does not have a match but has a Switch It! Card, the player can change the vowel pattern being matched. For example, if the Playing pile has town on top and the player has joy, toy, ploy, and taught in hand, a Switch It! Card could be used to change the vowel pattern to oy as in joy, and the joy card becomes the new card on top of the Playing pile. 6. If the player does not have a match but has a Skip It! Card, the player can put it down. Play continues using the diphthong or complex vowel pattern of the word before the Skip It! Card. 7. Players take turns matching vowel patterns and reading the words aloud. If necessary, shuffle the Playing pile, turn it over, and continue playing until one player is out of cards. 8. The first player without any cards is the winner. Variations: • Add difficulty and extend play by including fewer Switch It! Cards. • Meet the needs of your group by focusing on fewer diphthongs or complex vowel patterns and removing some of the categories. Extensions Add extra oral language practice: • After playing the game, choose one diphthong or complex vowel pattern. Find all the cards with the target vowel pattern. As a group, tell a simple story or make up a riddle using the word cards. • During play, have students say a sentence that uses each word printed on their card. Add extra written practice: • Word Bank—Have students hunt for words with the au vowel patterns in this set and record them in a word bank for later use in their writing activities. Have them circle or highlight the diphthongs and complex vowel t au ght patterns in each word. Related Really Good Stuff® Products: Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowel Set 1 (#303358) Crazy Eights! R-controlled Vowel Set 2 (#303360) autumn fau lt h au nted Crazy Eights! Abstract Vowels Card List oy ow aw ou oi now cloud claw coin boy growl proud draw toy boil employ how ground hawk coil annoy frown snout crawl soil enjoy clown mouth yawn foil gnaw joint destroy drown foul joy howl count fawn join brown sound straw point ploy soy town couch bawl broil au taught fault pause haunt launch sauce cause haul vault Switch It! Switch It! Switch It! Switch It! Switch It! Switch It! Switch It! Switch It! Skip It! Skip It!
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