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This beautifully illustrated rhyming board game will help children with word recognition and vocabulary development as well as phonological awareness skills.

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How the boardgame will help younger players

This exciting boardgame has been designed and created with a view to help young players, in a fun and constructive way to develop their hand-eye co-ordination, ‘fine motor’ skills and their visual spatial awareness and concentration skills. The boardgame is also intended to help with developing the memory and picture recognition skills of younger players as they attempt to match a rhyming pair of cards (a method often used to support children with dyslexia).

In order to progress and learn, the players must compete with each other to race, whilst matching a rhyming pair of cards as quickly as possible in order to progress through the game and reach the bananas. Watch out for the logs that are located along the way though!

SEN Values (Special Education Needs)

The educational aspect of the boardgame was considered to be one of the most important factors that the creator wanted to emulate. The boardgame aspires to help young players in developing their phonological awareness skills. Through developing phonological awareness, young players are then able to learn to associate sounds with symbols and later create links to word recognition which helps to develop the decoding skills necessary for reading.

In addition, the boardgame aims to enhance the visual learning skills of young players by encouraging those with certain learning difficulties to boost their confidence. The pastel shaded cards, for example, have a wipe clean surface that can be written on with a dry-wipe pen which can be used as a useful learning aid.

The creator also felt it was important to help develop the kinaesthetic learning skills of young players by letting them achieve a hands-on experience with the boardgame by using the colourful counters and brightly laminated pictures.

Phonological Awareness

This is the awareness of sound and rhymes, combined with the general awareness that sentences can be broken down into words, syllables and sounds. Phonological awareness consists of skills that typically develop gradually and sequentially through the late pre-school period.

Understanding the relationship between sound and spoken language is an important component of promoting ‘phonological skills’. You will often find some dyslexic learners will find phonological skills difficult to develop.

Developing phonological awareness skills can lead to improved reading success.

Other easy ways to play

The boardgame has been developed with an eye to having a multi-purpose use to help keep young players interested in the finer art of learning. Why not encourage young players to learn with the other stimulating ways to play:-

·Rhyming Pair Race  

· Making Sentences

· Memory Game

· Creating Stories

· Simply play the boardgame using counters and the die


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This beautifully illustrated rhyming board game will help children with word recognition and vocabulary development as well as phonological awareness skills.