Title: Go Fish
Type: Game
Target: Any vocabulary, but especially phonics related
Materials: playing cards related to your theme
Procedure: Make up a set of cards for each group of students. Groups
should be about 5 students. The cards could be about rhyming words, words that
start with the same letter, end with the same letter, etc. Deal out the cards to the
students (about 4 each) and set the rest5 in a pile in the middle. Students take
turns asking each other questions about their cards to try and find a matching
pair. For example, If in my cards I have a card that says “chair” and we are
playing for rhyming words I could ask “Do you have a card that rhymes with
Chair?” If the person I ask does have such a card, they must hand it over and I
get a pair. The pair is now out of play. If they don’t have a card to match, they
say “sorry. Go fish!” I then choose a card from the middle. The most pairs wins.