A fun way to work on digraphs! Practice visual and auditory discrimination skills while trying to beat your opponent.
Discriminating: th vs. t
Two players compete to be the first to flip all 4 of their tiles. Each player is dealt a set of 4 tiles: 2 th tiles and 2 t tiles. There are 20 incomplete words in the deck of cards. The players take turns selecting a word card and flipping over the tile/s that correctly complete the word. Sometimes both a th and a t correctly complete a word, in which case 2 tiles can be flipped on one turn. And sometimes a player is forced to lose a turn because the remaining tile doesn’t work for their card. The first player with all 4 tiles flipped over is the winner. Flip It! is a very quick game which lends itself easily to short time slots or multiple rounds. It’s important to stress that the partners need to check each other on pronouncing the words and discerning whether or not they are real words in English.
Discriminating: th vs. sh vs. ch
In this version, each of the players gets six tiles: 2 th, 2 sh, and 2 ch. There are 24 cards in the deck. The procedure of the game is the same as above.
WORD LIST: th vs. t
__em pa__ __ink ba__
__in wi__ __an po__
__ag we__ __is __ing
__ell ma__ __at __en
__ick cu__ __ank __op
WORD LIST: th vs. sh vs. ch
__ip ba__ __em di__
__ed wi__ __eck hu__
__in fi__ __op ra__
__at ru__ __ot pa__
__ick ma__ __ut ri__
__ill su__ __is mu__
