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50 Quick- play reading games
Abigail Hanrahan
Catherine McSweeny


Table of Contents
Introduction .5
How to Use This Book 6
General Guidelines .6
Specific Guidelines 7
Game # Skill Area Game Title
Phonemic Awareness
1 Rhyming Road Block 9
2 Rhyming Sun Block .11
3 Rhyming Block Party 13
4 Rhyming Simon Says 1 15
5 Rhyming Simon Says 2 .17
6 Substitution Tiptoe through the Tulips .19
7 Substitution Garden Party .21
8 Substitution Long to Short Barbershop 23
9 Substitution Short to Long Salon 26
10 Substitution Morph Madness 29
11 Deletion Bury the Bones .32
12 Blending Slap Shot 1 36
13 Blending Slap Shot 2 40
14 Segmentation, Drop it, Chop it, Flip it .43
Substitution, Deletion
Decoding
15 Pattern Recognition Bessie’s Book Barn 46
16 Pattern Recognition Word Find 49
17 Pattern Recognition Wild Beasts 52
18 Pattern Recognition Lock ’Em Up .57
19 Pattern Recognition Vowel City 62
20 Prefixes, Roots, Suffixes Play Ball! .66
21 Syllables Syllable Sort .69
22 Syllables Syllable Race .75
23 Decoding Climbing Adventure 77
24 Decoding Frog Hop 80
25 Decoding Four Score 85
26 Decoding Word Bubbles 90
Automaticity & Fluency
27 Sight Words Touchdown .94
28 Sight Words Gumball Machine .101
29 Sight Words Laundry Leap .103
30 Sight Words Clear the Table 105
31 Sight Words Huh? 107
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32 Sight Words Rake it and Read It 111
33 Sentence Fluency Hot Potato 115
34 Sentence Fluency Volcano 119
35 Sentence Fluency Chill Out 123
36 Reading Fluency Race Against Time .125
37 Reading Fluency Read Racer .127
38 Sentence Fluency Syllable Stars .129
39 Sentence Fluency Syllable Centipedes .131
Reading Comprehension
40 Vocabulary: Synonyms SynonymWebs 133
41 Context Clues Going South .136
42 Questioning Fact Finding 140
43 Questioning Climb A Tree 142
44 Questioning Extra! Extra! .145
45 Questioning Light the House 147
46 Predicting Crystal Ball .150
47 Visualizing Making Movies 152
48 Main Idea Ducks in a Row 155
49 Main Idea Read All About It .159
50 Paraphrasing Buried Treasure 161
References .165


Introduction
How many educators spend countless evenings on the living room floor with oak tag, a ruler,
and markers designing games and flashcards for their students? Personally, we have the flashcards
with bent edges to prove it. 50 Quick Play Reading Games is a book of ready-to-use
reading games and activities at your fingertips. It can be used for children in kindergarten
through fifth grade. We wanted to provide you with enough games to cover a variety of reading
skills. The games and activities cover these areas:
ã 14 games for Phonemic Awareness (rhyming, deletion, substitution, blending)
ã 12 games for Decoding (short vowels, long vowels, diphthongs, digraphs,
blends, syllables)
ã 13 games for Automaticity and Fluency
ã 11 games for Comprehension
Most of these games can be played in groups of 2 or more students. In addition, for some of
the games, we have included a blank game board for you to create a more individualized
game for your students. We have tried to include examples of reading material for many of
the games; however, using the material that you are instructing or reading in class whenever
possible will probably produce the best outcomes.
Our goal in writing this book is to provide educators with a variety of game types to reinforce
essential reading skills. These games are designed to be used exactly as printed, or they can
be modified to more closely meet the needs of your students. Ultimately, you, the educator,
will decide how best to use the activities and games in this book with your own students. You
can photocopy the activities, color them, laminate them, and store them for easy use. They
will make a great addition to your classroom collection of reading games.
Our hope is that these games and activities will not only motivate and reinforce important
reading skills, but that you and your students will have fun! Enjoy these 50 Quick Play
General Guidelines
1. Quick Play — The title of this book sums it up — these games are designed for easy set up and
play. Although most of these games will take 10-15 minutes to play, some of the activities will
be played over a period of time. We assume that you have your own way of deciding who
will take the first turn, so instructions for deciding that aspect of game play are not included.
Most games proceed in a turn-taking manner.
2. Materials for Games — Some of the games and activities require advance preparation or
assembly of materials. Generally, you will need different-colored game tokens, dice, colored
pencils/markers/crayons, game chips, and a timer (or a watch with a second hand).
3. Variations — Some of the games and activities include pages of words, sentences, and brief
paragraphs on cards that can be transferred to heavier paper stock and cut apart ahead of
time. If you want to jump right into a game, you can read the stimuli (or have the students read
the stimuli) from the page instead of taking the time to cut out the cards.
4. Instructor’s Role — Many of the games require the instructor’s participation. Be mindful of this
when choosing games for independent student play. Again, every game can be modified to
fit the needs of not only your students but also of your classroom.
5. Customizing — You can use many of the game boards in this book with other stimuli. You can
also customize the games and activities by mixing and matching items from different games in
different reading areas. Use the game components in a way that best suits your instructional
needs.
6. Game Stimuli — We have provided enough stimuli in each game to play a couple of games
with 2-3 players. The games can be extended through the creation or addition of specific
words, patterns, sentences, paragraphs, etc., that you are using in your instruction. For some
of the games, sample responses are provided when it seemed necessary, but for many of the
games, the instructor or other players determine correct responses.


How to Use this Book
Specific Guidelines for Each Section
The games in this book cover 4 basic areas of reading instruction:
Games 1-14: Phonemic Awareness
These activities and games are foundational activities for acquiring reading skills. The skills
addressed include rhyming, substituting, segmenting, deleting, discriminating, and blending sounds.
You can customize the games by substituting your own cards and cues. Also, you can extend the
value of the games by requiring players to spell or write their responses. Many suggested extensions
for game play are included in the Optional Play section of the instructions.
Games 15-26: Decoding
These games reinforce basic decoding skills as well as strategies for reading multisyllabic words.
Many of the games target specific word patterns and families (i.e., /oo/, soft g and c, vowel combinations,
diphthongs). You may want to adapt each game so that it reinforces the specific patterns that
your students are working on. See the References list on page 165 for some resources on word lists.
Games 27-39: Automaticity and Fluency
In order for students to understand what they read, they need to be able to recognize words automatically
and read text fluently. Automaticity means not needing to devote attention to the task of
decoding words while reading (Johns and Lenski, 1997). Fluency means fast, expressive reading
(Cunningham, 2000). These games and activities offer a variety of ways to keep the necessary
drill and practice fun and motivating. Again, we have provided word lists and lists of sentences for
you to use in some of the games and activities; however, for those activities that require reading
paragraphs and passages, we thought it would be best for instructors to use reading material that
is at the appropriate reading level for their students. See page 165 for suggested resources.
Games 40-50: Reading Comprehension
While we have provided some stimuli for many of the games and activities in this book, these
games were designed to be used with material selected by the instructor. The activities are applicable
to both narrative and expository text and will be useful for students who are beginning to
read for meaning, as well as those who are fluent readers. The instructor will need to decide
whether to begin at a word, sentence, paragraph, page, or chapter level.
These games and activities address many skill areas, including asking questions, identifying the
main idea, visualizing, paraphrasing, vocabulary, using context clues, and higher level comprehension
skills. The higher level comprehension skills that are targeted are:
ã Summarize —- Students use their own words to tell about their reading.
ã Infer — Students will use previous information from what they have read to draw conclusions
about the events in a story, the characters, etc.
ã Detail — Students will supply specific facts or information about the characters, setting,
plot, or events in the text.
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ã Predict — Students will use the information in the reading to make an educated guess
about what will happen next.
ã Opinion — Students will share a belief or view of a specific event or character in the
reading.
Some of the games are intended to be used over a period of time. To maintain the “quick play”
feeling of the activity, you can set a short time limit for the activity for each class period so the game
can be completed over time. You will find that the games in this section can be used before, during,
or after reading.