Phonic Books Dandelion Card Games

About Phonic Books Dandelion Card Games

Phonic Books Dandelion Card Games are 6 beautifully designed playing card games that offer practice and consolidation of phonic skills for beginner readers.

Linked to the popular Dandelion series of Readers and Activities, these card games will enthuse and delight beginner readers as they learn to read. Starting at CVC word level, the sets introduce consonant digraphs and alternative spellings for vowel sounds. There is also a word building set to encourage confidence in reading.

Each game in Sets 1-5 includes instructions, a contents list, 42-word cards and 8 action cards. Set 6 includes instructions, a contents list, Dandelion letter cards, word list cards and word chain cards.

These exciting, fast-paced games make an ideal teaching resource that will engage beginner readers.

The phonic progression in the card games is:

Box 1: CVC
Box 2: CVC, CVCC, CCVC, CCVCC
Box 3: ch, tch, sh, th
Box 4: ck, ng, qu, wh
Box 5: Split vowel spellings
Box 6 is a set that supports word building. It corresponds to the phonic focus in Dandelion Launchers Stages 1-10 and Dandelion World Stages 1-10.