Memory Game: Idea #12

If your student loves to play games, Memory is a great one to use for letter sound practice. If you are not familiar with the game Memory, here is how you play it:

1. Lay all cards face down in neat rows (in no particular order)
2. Student turns over two cards to see if they are a match. 
3. If the two cards are not a match, the student turns them back over and lets the teacher take a turn. If the two cards are a match, the student takes the cards and gets to turn over two other cards.
4. The winner of the game is the one with the most matches at the end.

When I play the Memory game in my classroom, I use cards similar to the one on this website: http://www.eslprintables.com/Vocabulary_worksheets/The_alphabet/Alphabet_games/index.asp?page=2


This allows the student to match the letter with the correct object. This way they are practicing sounds, not just matching letter A with letter A. Instead, they are matching the sound A with the picture of an apple that makes the A sound.

TIP: Since there are 26 letters in the alphabet this game involves 52 cards. This may be a little difficult for a 5 or 6 year old. Try using only the letter sound cards that your student struggles with. Then there won't be so many cards in the game. If you keep all 52 cards in, you could be playing for a while!