Who Eats What? Game
To play the Who Eats What? Game follow the step by step instructions below which are found on page 21 of the book Murphy Reading.
Who Eats What? Game
Remember it is very important to go over yesterday’s words before introducing new words. Now we are going to form sentences with the 20 words the child can read.
Who Eats What? Game
How to play the game
Lay out the animals, sweets and yellow word cards as shown on the video.
Cow figure buttons
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Read: the cow eats buttons
Dog figure jelly tots
Word card word card
Read: the dog eats jelly tots
Pig figure smarties
Word card word card
Read: the pig eats smarties
1. Demonstrate to the child how to read the sentence “the cow eats buttons”. Simply explain to the child that we pretend some extra words are there. You will find that the child will do this automatically without question.
2. Ask the child to read each sentence.
3. Remove the actual sweets and ask the children to read the sentences.
4. Ask the child to close their eyes and jumble up the sweet word cards. Leave the animals and animal cards as they are.
5. As the child to read the sentences.
6. Remove the animal figures.
7. Ask the child to read the sentences.
8. Ask the child to close their eyes and jumble up the animal word cards. Leave the sweet word cards as they are.
9. Ask the child to read the sentences.
10. Ask the child to close their eyes.
11. Jumble up the animal and sweet word cards.
12. Repeat as above.
13. Ask the child to jumble up the animal and sweet word cards and read the sentences.
Further examples:
Sheep figure maltesers
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Read: the sheep eats maltesers
Horse figure jelly babies
Word card word card
Read: the horse eats jelly babies
Cat figure rolos
Word card word card
Read: the cat eats rolos
Hen figure minstrels
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Read: the hen eats minstrels
Goat figure fruit pastilles
Word card word card
Read: the goat eats fruit pastilles
Notice how the child uses all of their senses. Watch the expressions on the child’s face of interest, attention, curiosity but above all fun!