Description:

Ahoy, phonics pirates! Bossy R Trail turns r-controlled vowel practice into a game your students will beg to play. Players race along the trail, read ar, or, and ore words, and complete a challenge card on every space they land on.

What's included:

• A full-color game board with 14 ar, or, and ore words (arch, born, artist, card, form, snore, discard, pork, tore, marvel, thorn, shore, report, sharp)

• 8 challenge cards

• A blank game board, so students can build their own trail with Bossy R words they find in their reading

• Blank challenge cards for creating your own challenges

How to play: Players roll a die and move along the trail. On each word space, they read the word and draw a challenge card. Special spaces like Roll Again, Move Ahead Two, and Move Back Two keep the game exciting. The first player to reach the finish wins!

Skills practiced:

• Reading r-controlled vowels: ar /ar/ and or, ore /or/

• Segmenting sounds (ex. born: /b/ /or/ /n/)

• Counting and labeling syllables

• Rhyming

• Using words in oral and written sentences

Perfect for: literacy centers, small groups, intervention, partner practice, early finishers, and family game night.

Grades: 1st, 2nd, 3rd (also great for older students who need r-controlled vowel practice)

Tags: phonics, r-controlled vowels, bossy r, phonics games, literacy centers, science of reading, small group, decoding