Description
Engaging and hands-on Beginning and Ending Digraphs practice! Your students will love fishing for digraphs, matching the pictures and beginning and ending digraphs (fish and ocean) and using the recording sheet to color, circle, or write down all of the beginning and ending digraphs they catch! These are great for whole-class teaching, small group instruction, literacy centers, independent practice, morning work, or intervention.
What’s Included:
48 beginning digraph pictures (fish) and 48 corresponding digraphs (ocean) in color OR black and white and 36 ending digraph pictures (fish) and 36 corresponding digraphs (ocean) that can be matched together to practice an important and crucial beginning reading skill, recognizing beginning and ending digraphs. There are several different optional recording sheet options. This fishing game can be used for many different purposes and in a variety of ways.
Why use Beginning and Ending Digraphs Fishing?
Research supports how important it is for beginning readers to practice matching sounds to print. Intentional, frequent, and focused opportunities to practice over an extended time (deliberate practice) facilitates automaticity. Since research also shows that learners are more motivated to do an activity that is fun and novel, Beginning and Ending Digraph Fishing are activities that meet that criteria. This fishing game combines the motivation of a hands-on, engaging activity and deliberate practice with the goal of helping students gain automaticity in reading and does it in a way that is both fun and motivational.
How to Use:
Spread the fish out face down on the floor or a table. The students can use their poles to “catch” a beginning or ending digraph fish. To make it more fun, put the fish in a small plastic swimming pool! Have each student say the name of the picture on the card. Then, they will find the matching digraph on an ocean scene and put the fish in the ocean. Next, students can sound out the word and color the beginning or ending digraph on the recording sheet, write in the beginning or ending digraph, or write the entire word on the recording sheet (the action is determined by the recording sheet chosen) – optional. For an added layer, students can sort the beginning and ending digraphs fish by digraph.
We purchased magnetic fishing poles from Lakeshore Learning; however, you can also make your own poles with wooden dowels, pencils, chopsticks, or anything that would make sturdy “fishing poles.” Tie string on the end of each “pole.” Then, attach a magnet on the end of each string. Put a paperclip or brad on each fish. This can also be played without using magnetic fishing poles. Simply place the fish in a sensory bin (filled with blue shredded paper, water beads, etc.) and students can pull a fish from the “ocean”.
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Thank you,
Linda Ekstrom and Michelle Woods
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