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Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Sound and Word Awareness / Listening Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Detection of Sound
Equipment required: blindfold
How to Play: A blindfolded student stands in the
middle of the circle of students.
A child in the circle makes a sound / says a word.
The blindfolded child identifies the student who made the
sound.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Sound and Word Awareness / Listening Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Musical Statues
Equipment required: music (recorded or played)
How to Play: Students move freely to the music.
When the music stops the children must freeze.
The last child to freeze is out.
The winner is the student left after ever child has been
eliminated.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Sound and Word Awareness / Listening Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Repeat Teacher
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Teacher tells the students a sequence
of numbers, animals, names, colours etc.
Student/s repeat the sequence back to the teacher
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Sound and Word Awareness / Listening Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Sound Discrimination
Equipment required: Items for creating noises
How to Play: Students listen to two sounds (eyes
closed) – whistle, bell, clap etc,
Students identify if the sounds are the same or different
Repeat this with words
NB This activity can provide some initial information about
student hearing loss.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Sound and Word Awareness / Listening Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Sound Discrimination 2
Equipment required: Instruments
How to Play: Teacher uses a hidden triangle, drum,
tambourine – link a movement to each instrument (eg
marching = drum, shaking = tambourine, tiptoe = triangle)
When the children here each instrument they move to
match it.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Sound and Word Awareness / Listening Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Clapped Rhythm
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Teacher claps a simple rhythm
pattern.
Students copy the rhythm.
Students can be selected to lead the rhythm.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Sound and Word Awareness / Listening Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Making Sounds
Equipment required: Tissues
How to Play: Teacher makes a single phoneme /
sound.
Students copy the sound.
Students feel their throat, cheeks etc as they are making
the sound. Eg mmm
Students watch each other create phonemes – watching
what is happening with tongue, lips
Students hold a tissue in front of their mouth, and identify if
a sound uses breath or not eg ‘p’ – yes, ‘n’ – no
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Sound and Word Awareness / Listening Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: What’s Left
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Teacher says a number of compound
words. Then identifies one of the words which make up
the compound word. Eg rainbow – bow
The student identifies the word that is left. Eg rain.
Other words
Starfish, midnight, cowboy, sandpit, hilltop,
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Sound and Word Awareness / Listening Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Compound Words
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Teacher identifies a word.
Students make up as many compound words using this
word.
Eg book – bookshelf, bookbag
Foot – football, footpath
Sun – Sunday, sunrise, sunset
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Sound and Word Awareness / Listening Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Syllables
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Teacher models clapping out the beat
of syllables in words – particularly words from familiar texts
Students join in clapping out the syllables with teacher.
Students lead in the clapping of syllables.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Rhyming Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Rhyming Pairs
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Teacher says two words, then
identifies if the words rhyme or not (hold up yes/no card, or
make a ‘ding’ sound for yes/ ‘bahbow’ sound for no
Students identify if the words rhyme or not
Student can lead the rhyming game
Variation:
Teacher says three words
Students identify the word that doesn’t rhyme.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Rhyming Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Rhyming Snap
Equipment required: Cards with rhyming pairs
How to Play: Students play snap
Students win when they snap on rhyming pairs
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Rhyming Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Rhyming Match
Equipment required: Images of a variety items
How to Play: Teacher says a word
Students identify an image/word which rhymes with the
word
Students can take on the role of teacher – identifying a
word for the students to find a rhyme with
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Rhyming Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Rhyming in Texts
Equipment required: familiar texts
How to Play: Students identify words that rhyme in
familiar texts.
Students can develop rhyming games based on the texts.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Rhyming Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Oral Rhyming
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Teacher says a word
Students provide a rhyming word, orally
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Rhyming Games
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Finish the Rhyme
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Teacher says a sentence / poem. Eg
‘there once was a cat who was very …’
Students provide a rhyming word to complete the sentence
eg. ‘fat’
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Beginning Sounds / Alliterations
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Same or Different
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Teacher says two or a series of words.
Students identify if the words start with the same initial
sound (Yes/No)
Students identify the initial sound of each series of words
with the same initial sound.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Beginning Sounds / Alliterations
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Minimal Pairs
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Students hold a tissue in front of their
mouth.
Teacher identifies minimal pairs (k/g, t/d, p/b)
Students say the minimal pairs and identify the difference
when speaking into a tissue.
Place finger on the front of the throat and identify the way
our voice vibrates for the following minimal pairs (s/z.
sh/zh, ch/j)
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Beginning Sounds / Alliterations
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: What’s The Sound
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Teacher says a word
Students identify the starting sound
Students take on the teacher role – says a word
Other students identify initial sounds
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Beginning Sounds / Alliterations
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Students Name
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Students group themselves according
the first sound in their first name
Students group themselves according to the first sound in
their surname.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Beginning Sounds / Alliterations
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: I Spy
Equipment required: A selection of objects
(familiar for ESL students)
How to Play: A selection of common objects (each
with a different starting sound) are put on display for the
whole class to see.
One student is selected to go first, saying: ‘I spy with my
little eye something beginning with…’
The group call out the object beginning with that sound.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Beginning Sounds / Alliterations
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Feely Box/Bag
Equipment required: A selection of objects
(familiar for ESL students), Feely Bag/Box
How to Play: Feely bag/box contain a selection of
familiar objects
Students take turns to reach in and attempt to identify the
object and the sound it starts with.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Beginning Sounds / Alliterations
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Brainstorming
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Students sit in a circle
Teacher identifies a target initial sound
Students take turns to identify words that begin with with
the target initial sound eg bag, ball, bike, bat
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Beginning Sounds / Alliterations
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Picture Dictionary
Equipment required: Posters with letters of the
alphabet on each sheet.
How to Play: Students cut out pictures from
magazines, draw pictures,
Students place the pictures on the alphabet sheets –
identifying initial sounds
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Beginning Sounds / Alliterations
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Odd One Out
Equipment required: Picture cards with matching
initial sounds
How to Play: Teacher shows the students three
picture cards – two picture cards have the same initial
sound.
Students name each picture and identify the matching
initial sounds, then identifying the odd one out and the
initial sound
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Beginning Sounds / Alliterations
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Tongue Twisters
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Teacher says a tongue twister.
Students repeat the tongue twister
Tongue twisters start slowly and can be sped up.
A challenge to say the tongue twister as many times
without a mistake.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Beginning Sounds / Alliterations
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Oral Close
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Teacher says a sentence with a
missing word. The initial sound of the missing word is
provided as a hint.eg ‘I went shopping and I bought a m…’
‘A boys name is D…’ etc
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Breaking words into Sounds
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Final Sounds
Equipment required: Picture Cards
How to Play: Teacher selects a Picture Card.
Students identify the word
Teacher and students break the word into sounds and
identify the final sound
Student selects a Picture Card
Students identify the word and the sounds, then final
sound.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Breaking words into Sounds
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Final Sounds Chain
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Students sit in a circle
Teacher says a word
First student identifies a word that starts with the final
sound of the teachers word (eg teacher’s word – bell, first
student’s word – lion)
Students take turns to say a word starting with the final
sound of the previous word.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Breaking words into Sounds
Source: Early Childhood Listening and Speaking Games and ActivitiesCompiled by Kelly Birkett 2005
Activity: Sort According To Sound
Equipment required: Picture Cards
How to Play: Students are given a selection of
pictures.
Students sort them according to the final sounds.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Listening
Source: A few ideas from Jean McDonaldAboriginal HearingKatherine Education Office
Activity: Dead Ants
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Children act out the movement of
different animals as they are called out by teacher eg
Jumping kangaroo, swimming fish, slithering snake etc.
When the teacher calls out ‘dead ant’ the students lie on
their backs with their arms and legs in the air
Students take turns to give instructions.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Listening
Source: A few ideas from Jean McDonaldAboriginal HearingKatherine Education Office
Activity: Partners
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Work in pairs.
You can only have the number of things touching the
ground that I call out. Eg 5 – 2 feet, 1 bottom, 2 hands
Try working with 3 or 4 in a group
The number called out could be identified by the teacher or
could be based on a dice roll / playing card
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Listening
Source: A few ideas from Jean McDonaldAboriginal HearingKatherine Education Office
Activity: Hot and Cold
Equipment required: Object
How to Play: Hide and object – as a child searches
for it, the other children say ‘hot’ if they are close and ‘cold’
if they are far away.
Students can also grade the closeness to the item by
using ‘warmer’ and ‘cooler’
You can use a bell or chime when the child looking gets
close to the object.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Listening
Source: A few ideas from Jean McDonaldAboriginal HearingKatherine Education Office
Activity: Animals
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Children act out and make the sounds
of:
Dog, chicken, horse, monkey, snake, pig, sheep
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Listening
Source: A few ideas from Jean McDonaldAboriginal HearingKatherine Education Office
Activity: Shhh – I Can Hear a …
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Teacher says, ‘Shhh – I can hear a
….it makes the sound … eg barking
Children guess the object.
Students take the role of the teacher.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Listening
Source: A few ideas from Jean McDonaldAboriginal HearingKatherine Education Office
Activity: Related Words
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Children sit in a circle.
Pass an object around – only the person holding the object
can speak.
Start with a word – children take turns to say a word that is
related to the word said before eg ball, bounce, catch,
kick, football, Essendon, bombers, etc
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Listening
Source: A few ideas from Jean McDonaldAboriginal HearingKatherine Education Office
Activity: Celebrity Heads
Equipment required: Board and chalk
How to Play: 2 or 3 children sit with their backs to
the board
Write, draw or stick an image on the board behind the
person
Children ask closed (Yes/No) questions of the class about
their word/drawing
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Listening
Source: A few ideas from Jean McDonaldAboriginal HearingKatherine Education Office
Activity: Who Has My Tail?
Equipment required: Board and chalk
How to Play: Children sit in circle, one child in the
middle with eyes closed. (Child could also be at the front
of the class with back to class).
Put a ‘tail’ (eg a ruler) behind the child in the middle
Point to one child who takes the ‘tail’ and hides it behind
his/her back.
Child in middle says, ‘Who has taken my tail?’
The child who has the ‘tail’ says, ‘I have.’
The child in the middle has 3 guesses to identify the child
with the ‘tail’.
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Listening
Source: A few ideas from Jean McDonaldAboriginal HearingKatherine Education Office
Activity: What’s in the box?
Equipment required: Objects and Box
How to Play: Put an object in a box or a container.
Children try to identify it by asking questions.
Teacher only answers yes, no or maybe
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Listening
Source: A few ideas from Jean McDonaldAboriginal HearingKatherine Education Office
Activity: Who is the Kitten?
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Children sit with their eyes closed.
Teacher or selected student tiptoes around and gently
touches someone on the shoulder.
That person meows (or other noise).
Other children guess who is the kitten
Early Years Oral Games & Activities
Listening
Source: A few ideas from Jean McDonaldAboriginal HearingKatherine Education Office
Activity: Oral Cloze
Equipment required: None
How to Play: Teacher leaves out an identified
language structure/feature when telling or reading a story
(eg the verbs)
The children identify the missing word.