Description:

Vowel teams, ahoy! Vowel Team Trail gets students reading long a, long e, and long o vowel teams 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 vowel team words (rain, play, boat, snow, paint, dream, rainbow, tray, green, coat, beach, window, toast, sheep)

• 8 challenge cards

• A blank game board, so students can build their own trail with vowel team 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 vowel teams: ai, ay /ā/, ee, ea /ē/, and oa, ow /ō/

• Segmenting sounds (ex. rain: /r/ /ā/ /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, vowel teams, long vowels, phonics games, literacy centers, science of reading, small group, decoding