Creepy Cave Consonant Matching Game

This board game features a wacky-looking cartoon monster in the centre of a cave; the surrounding stepping stones make a pathway on which children race their baby-monster tokens. The game is a combination of a standard roll-the-dice board game and a Concentration-style card game. The players move ahead by playing ‘memory’, trying to find the colour coded word cards that start with the same letter as the words on the board. Color-coded cards make remembering much easier.

To encourage reluctant readers, cards and stepping stones have pictures that accompany the words. Designed to foster listening and reading skills, memory and matching skills, and–of course–turn taking, the game is great reinforcement for those children who have a fairly good handle on letter sounds, but aren’t yet fluent readers.