Didax Educational Resources CVC Spelling Board Game

Easy to learn, fun, teaches several different reading skills in game board form. 6 year old loves it.

I've used this game in my classroom for the past 6 years and the children loved it. The game is fun. The children stay interested and practice their blending skills at the same time. Now that I'm retired and tutoring, this game was one of the first things that I purchased to use when I tutor. If your a teacher in grades K to 1, this game is a great tool.

I purchased this product to use in my Kindergarten classroom (title 1 school) during literacy centers. The students loved playing these games together and I lvoed how I was able to differentiate with the various game boards. My emergent readers were able to use the cvc board, while my students reading at a first grade level were able to use the more advanced game boards. The game boards are rather thin and some of them were slightly warped, but after bending them a bit I managed to get most of them to lay flat, or close to flat. These games can be played independently by children in Kindergarten, provided they are instructed on how to play the game. I introduced this as a literacy center during the last 12 weeks of school in the 2017-2018 school year. My only wish is that the game box included more dice, as I had multiple centers with the different game boards going on at the same time. I supplemented with my own foam dice so more than one of the game boards could be used at the same time.Organization: I used snack sized zip bags to hold one die and three of the colored tokens. I kept three of the game boards out on a shelf while the rest stayed in the box in storage (I cycled the game boards out as needed so the students didn't get bored of the same ones). When my students went to get their centers, they knew that only three students could work together because there were only three token in each bag.

My daughter enjoyed this game but the quality of the arrows is poor. Arrows do not spin fast but rather make slow quarter or half turns when you try to spin them...

My kindergarteners enjoyed playing and it’s excellent phonics practice. I like that it comes with many boards to practice different parts of short vowel words. Some of the boards were challenging for my kids with lower phonological awareness, but the basic ones were just right. These would also be an excellent purchase for early first grade students, or 1/2nd struggling readers. (I do wish they fit better in the box with the spinners attached. )

My daughter is 5 and in kindergarten. She loves these games and they’re really helping her with phonics, but my one complaint is that the rules say to move backwards if you don’t make a word. It seemed unecessarly complicated and my daughter was focusing more on counting the spaces and remembering where she was then trying to make words. To play, you roll the dice and move the number of spaces shown, and then you spin to get a letter. If the letter you get makes a word, you stay on the space, if not, you have to go back to the previous space. For example, the space could be d_g, so if you spin an O you stay, if you spin an E you go back to where you were before you rolled the dice. We play by our own rules and start on the first word space, spin for a letter first and then if the letter makes a word, roll the dice and move forward the number of spaces shown. If the letter doesn’t make a word, you don’t roll the dice and stay on the same space until your next turn. It’s a small change and just seems to work better this way for us. The boards themselves are a little thin, but they’re durable enough and we haven’t had any issues with the spinners. We use LOL dolls for our pieces because my daughter likes to and they’re more fun than the little discs that come with the games.

My students love playing this games. The rules are simple but the game keeps my students on the edge. They beg to play these games

What I especially liked is that this is the only short vowel game set that 1) deals ONLY with single short vowels, and epecially that it gives a word list for all possible words. This makes it self checking and the children can "look up" if the word they made (by help of the spinner) is an ACTUAL word, which by looking it up on the chart provides even more decoding practice. Love this set!