This game targets phonemic awareness with the focus on the CVC onset/rime combination. It is ready for intervention, consolidation or review with:

• 8 Game Boards
• 96 Letter Tiles
• Directions for play
• Word Bank for CVC Words by Rime
• Word Bank for CVC Words Alphabetical
• Screener - Tags and Overview of Skills (for differentiation)

The game format is similar to the traditional Tic Tac Toe game with students needing to blend onsets and rimes to play. The rime is on the board and the letter tiles have the single consonant onsets underlined for orientation. Blending the onset and rime contributes to phonemic skill development and is particularly important for those students who are still developing their awareness of sounds. Including this activity into your literacy groups will provide proactive in-class intervention simultaneously with consolidation and fun for all students.

Mastery of these foundation sounds can take more time for some students and the game format provides the motivation for them to play over and over without getting bored. The WORD BANKS can be used by a group leader for explicit teaching, such as: "You have a 'puh'. (Putting it in front of each rime) Is 'pag' a word? Is 'pad' a word? How many other words can you make? (going around the board) Yes, No, Yes." They can also be used for general consolidation and mixed ability groups would be ideal.

There are blank spaces on the Word Banks for you to add words (such as students' or local names) or any words I've missed.