Avoid the Rotten Apple Game for Reading Digraphs

by Suddenly TeleSLP

Price: 250 points or $2.5 USD

Subjects: ela,reading,sightWords,foundationalSkills,games,holiday,firstDayOfAutumn

Grades: 13,1,2

Description: Collect as many "good apples" as you can while reading the short vowel words containing digraphs: ck, ch, sh, th, and wh. Watch out for the rotten apple! More than 75 words with digraphs included. This is appropriate for kindergarten through second grades, depending on the level of your reader. Step 1: Determine who will be player 1 and player 2. Step 2: Player 1 selects images from the bucket of water and practices reading the words. Each time player 1 selects a word, they move that image to the discard pile with leaves. Step 3: Player 1 moves any "good apples" (red or green) to their basket. Play continues until they discover the rotten apple. It is then Player 2's turn. Step 4: Player 2 takes their turn, selecting and reading words, moving them to the discard pile, and collecting "good apples" until the rotten one is found. Step 5: At the end of the game, go back and count the number of apples each player collected to see who won. Important note!!! You must select the skip button throughout the game to go back and count apples. Otherwise, you'll need to keep score as you go along. More rotten apple games are available for opposites, homographs, homophones, irregular plural nouns, specific phonemes, sight words, and phonological processes.