Brain-e-Games give confidence in Reading:

This is a delightful picture lotto board game that encourages children to match.

  • Good for hand-eye coordination.
  • A great game to introduce before they learn the alphabet.
  • 4 printable lotto boards and 36 different picture tiles.
  • Really cute graphics
 

This is a colourful First Alphabet Lotto game.

  • Young children can match up magnetic fridge letters (not supplied) to the letters on their lotto boards.

  • Each board has 5 letters including one Vowel (a, e, i, o, u) with a picture that begins with the vowel sound.

  • For even more fun, you could play this as a 'Fishing Game' with a magnetic wand!

  • Includes 5 large printable lotto boards and instructions

 
A great first game to teach letter names & sounds (early phonics).
  • Includes 4 large printable boards and an extra set of letters for playing 'Matching Pairs'.

  • Includes teachers notes for extended learning.

 
This is a lovely game for early learners who are beginning to spell three letter words.
  • Children can use a magnetic wand to 'fish' for letters to make their first three letter words.

  • Each board has a cute picture of the word they are making which includes one of the vowel sounds, (a, e, i, o, u).

  • Great manipulative play as well as visual learning.

  • Use with magnetic letters (not included).

  • 15 Boards with words: cat, ted, pig, dog, bug, hat, net, bag, sun, bun, log, hen, bin, pip, mop.

  • Vowel Flash Cards: a, e, i, o, u

  • Two Sets of Word Flash Cards (One set with a picture and one set with just the word)

 
This is a great introduction to phonics. Cute graphics!
  • Students match up an alphabet letter to a picture that begins with the letter SOUND.

  • Share dominoes between players.

  • Players take turns to match an alphabet letter with a picture beginning with the same letter sound or vice versa.

  • The first player to put down all their dominoes down or who has the least number left, is the winner.

Letters/pictures used:

apple, bed, cat, dog, elephant, fish, gate, hat, ice-cream, jam, kite, leaf, man, needle, orange, pig, quilt, rabbit, sun, toe, umbrella, violin, window, xylophone, yellow (crayon), zebra.

Makes 26 dominoes.

 

 
Great for beginner readers.
  • Players take turns, matching up a word with a picture, or a picture with a word.

  • Really cute graphics!

Instructions for Noun Dominoes:

Words used:
bed, pig, cat, t en, dog, bus, man , mom, sun, bug, t ag, hat, mug

Phonic Blend Endings used:
ed, ig, at, en, og, us, ad, om, un, ug, ag

Makes 26 dominoes

 
SIGHT WORD BINGO 1 and 2
  • Each game contains 25 of the most frequently used words in the English Language.

  • Both games come with an extra set of words for playing 'Matching Pairs'

  • Each game has 4 printable BINGO boards

Sight Words Used in Sight Word BINGO 1:
his, my, said, look, one, of, come, I, with, have, do, me, to, has, is, no, the, at, and, go, by, was, see, you, for

Sight Words Used in Sight Word BINGO 2:
he, in, it, that, but, are, had, him, not, on, so, they, we, with, big, into, like, little, her, up, where, what, who, this, she

You can use M&M's as counters for a great motivator!

 

 
This is a lovely pre-school game to help teach colours and the names of the colors.

Teaches 11 Colours - green / red / blue / white / black / purple / brown / pink / yellow / grey / orange

  • 12 dominoes

  • 11 flash cards with just the words printed. (I usually keep these on a 'ring' as shown to give you an idea of how to store them.)

The object of the game is to make a 'train' of matching colors/color words using all the dominoes.
 
Get your students to 'hang out' the months on the washing line (piece of string/elastic) so they can 'see' how the seasons work. So much learning to be had with this game -- wonderful for involving the whole classroom.
  • Choose from Northern or Southern Hemisphere

You will need:

12 pegs (spring type work best)
Length of elastic or string for washing line

 
Give students practice at using digraphs.
[when two letters join together to make a new sound]
  • Makes 4 large lotto boards.

  • Digraphs Used: sh, ph, th, ch, wh

 
When a student is confident with the Alphabet Sounds, then introduce 'Blending' with these Blend Dominoes.

Phonic Blends Endings Used:
ib, oy, ot, at, an, id, it, ut, ip, ad, am, ap, ug, ag, en, od, um, et, ay, im, in, ud, ab, ob, ar, ig, ub, op, ed, og,

Makes 49 large dominoes. Size: 7.5 cm x 6.5 cm (approx.)

 
Excellent game for Initial blending practice!
  • Includes 4 large printable BINGO cards

  • Includes 24 printable initial blend tiles:
    br, pl, spl, fr, cr, gr, bl, squ, sw, tr, sp, str, pr, spr, cl, fl, sl, gl, sm, qu, sn, sk, st, dr

  • Different words are created each time you play this game

 
Ending Blend Bingo
  • Different words can be made each time you play this game which make it interesting and actually more difficult than it looks!

  • End blends used in the game:
    id, ft, ng, ch, lt, sh, nt, lp, th, pt, sp, ck, lf, nk, ct, mp, nd, lk, lb, lm, st, sk.

 
Collective Noun Dominoes
  • Collective Nouns are those which deal with collections of things or persons.

Makes 24 Dominoes.

 
Homonyn Dominoes
  • Homonym comes from two Greek words meaning 'the same' and 'name'.

  • A homonym is a word which has the same sound as another, but which has a different meaning.

  • This domino type game will introduce students to the most common homonyms and give vocabulary practice.

Makes 24 Dominoes.

 
Contraction Dominoes
  • A domino type game that gives practice using/spelling of contractions by matching up complete words and their abbreviated version.

Makes 33 Dominoes/Contractions.