Smartie Pants Flashcard Game

 

 Details:  Playskool Flashcards: First words for ages 3 and up. Comes with reward stickers.  Great for first time learners, and easy learning for them.  With bright bolded fonts, and easy fun pictures, these flashcards are perfect for any child to use.


My Review: We've been using these flash cards for the whole year to help my 6 year old learn to read.  This subject is the one he HATES and FIGHTS the most.  So as we continue to try to encourage him, and help him see the fun and joy of learning, not just the importance here is what he has told us.  He loves these flash cards, and after using them for 10 months he now begs for me to play a little game we created.  So here's the game, the rules, and how we play it.

Rules: 4 step process

Using the back of a card I hide the image
so that he focuses first on the letters,
then focus on the sounds

Once he can put the sounds together and say
the word and know what he is saying
he gets to see the image and write it down

Here is how well he did just the other day.

One thing I'd like to mention, is in these images you'll see stickers on some of the words.  Those words are brand new that day, and the ones that really gave him a hard time.  So as we continue this game daily or weekly he knows he's getting better by which words don't get the stickers.  When he completes a page with only 3 stickers or less on it he gets a reward from my Reward box.