If you're teaching the ow sound to your little learners we have a fun game you may like! The cows have come to town and your students will read the words they have brought with them!
There are 24 simple words that contain ow in the game - review them with your students as a whole class activity.
- Make a quick chart or write them on the board - it is important that your students see you writing each day.
- Verbalize each word and show them the location of the 'ou' making the ou sound.
Play a whole class game with the cards - lay them out, call a word and have a chosen student find the matching cow. This whole class game will provide for them an experience to reflect back to when they play it as a small group with their peers.
Use the worksheet provided to encourage your students to write the words they have found, at the conclusion of the game.
Extra Ideas
- use the playing cards as word cards in your writing center - students can write them on a little whiteboard or on scrap paper
- put the word cards on a ring and let students flip through the, reading them for fluency
- encourage students to make the words with magnetic letters
