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LONG
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Created By: Susan Jones ([Link]

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6 different print & play games to help students
practice words with the long vowel teams: ai, ay, ea,
ee, ie, oa, and ui. The only tools you will ever need
for these games are things you find in your
classroom already: dice, a pencil, paperclips, crayons
& some sort of cube or counter

• Long Vowel 5-in-a-row

• Roll, Read, & Draw
• Climb Your Ladder
• The Countdown is On
• Clear Your Squares
• Read & Search

All games are in black and white so you can just

print & play!
No prep needed!
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I don’t know about your students, but mine LOVE to play
games & how could you blame them?! These games are
the perfect way to have your students practice skills
they’ve already learned to help their fluency. This is also a
great time for you, as the teacher, to walk around and
check in with students and offer help as needed. As
students are engaged in their games you can also pull
students in small groups for some guided practice or
intervention.

I made each of these games with EASE in mind. With

the same game formats and tools you already have in
your classroom, these games make life easy! I will usually
have my students meet in a circle on the rug while I
show them how to play the game. Once they know how,
simply print one of the pages and let students play!

There are 6 different games of varying difficulty included

in this unit that cover words with long vowel teams.
 LONG VOWEL
5-in-a-row!
Directions:
For this game you will
Students take turns rolling a die and finding a word in
need:
1 die the grid with the matching vowel team. Students try
Cubes (one color per to be the first to get 5 in a row (horizontally,
player) or Crayons vertically or diagonally). If a student rolls a 3, their
turn is skipped and if a student rolls a 4, they get to
choose any spot they like!
**I included a cheat sheet of the images used so you can
go over them with students before they play**
 ROLL, READ &
DRAW
Directions:
For this game you will
Students will take turns rolling 2 dice and finding the
need:
2 dice sum. They will then read the vowel team word (or
Colored pencils sentence) that matches the sum and draw an
illustration to show meaning. The first student to fill
in their chart wins! If a number is rolled that has
already been illustrated, that player’s turn is skipped!
*I made two versions to allow for differentiation*
 CLIMB YOUR
LADDER
Directions:
For this game you will
Students will take turns spinning the spinner and
need:
pencil finding a space on their ladder to put that vowel team
paperclip to make a real word. When they have found one, they
crayons write it in with pencil and color in that box on their
ladder. Students continue spinning and making real
words until one player fills their whole ladder. That
student is the winner!
 THE COUNTDOWN
IS ON!
Directions:
For this game you will
This challenging game has students racing to make
need:
Pencil real words! Player A will countdown from 10 (or 5)
2 crayons (one for and while counting down, Player B will choose any
each player) circle to try to make a real word by filling in one of
the vowel teams. If they successfully make a real
word, they write it in and color that circle. Then player
switch spots. Students continue until all circles are
colored in. Whoever completed the most, wins!
 CLEAR YOUR
SQUARES
Directions:
For this game you will
Students begin by covering all the spots on their
need:
Cubes, bears, gameboard with a cube or counter of some sort.
counters, or anything Students then take turns spinning the spinner and
to cover spaces removing a block that has a picture with the vowel
Pencil team they landed on. Students continue until one
Paperclip player has cleared all their squares! That player is the
winner!
 READ &
SEARCH
Directions:
For this game you will
Students take turns rolling the die and reading one of
need:
1 die the sentences with that number. That student will
Crayon or colored read the sentence aloud and circle ONE of the long
pencil for each vowel team words. Students continue rolling, reading,
student. and searching, until all the vowel team words have
been circled. At the end, students can count up who
found the most! If a student rolls and neither
sentence has another vowel team word to be found,
their turn is skipped.