Description:

Oi, mateys! Diphthong Trail gets students reading oi, oy, ou, and ow words as they race along a pirate trail and complete a challenge on every space they land on.

What's included:

• A full-color game board with 14 diphthong words (coin, toy, cow, boil, enjoy, mouth, crown, point, boy, shout, town, soil, outside, cloud)

• 8 challenge cards

• A blank game board, so students can build their own trail with diphthong words

• 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. Roll Again, Move Ahead Two, and Move Back Two spaces add a fun twist. The first player to reach the finish wins!

Skills practiced:

• Reading diphthongs: oi, oy /oi/ and ou, ow /ou/

• Segmenting sounds (ex. coin: /k/ /oi/ /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

Tags: phonics, diphthongs, vowel teams, phonics games, literacy centers, science of reading, small group, decoding