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Early Literacy Fun with Bananagrams

March 12, 2014 by OneMommy

 

 

Anytime you can mix learning and fun it’s a win!   Even better when it takes little or now prep. work!

We were cleaning out the hall closet one day when the kindergartner saw my old Bananagrams game and asked to see what it was.

Both the kindergartner and preschooler were excited by all the little letter squares inside the zippered banana!

Bananagrams game

 

They hunted through the letters for a while, and then we worked on sorting all the letters into piles.

It was great work for letter recognition for the preschooler.  As we sorted, the kindergartner and I talked about which letters were considered vowels.

sorting letters

 

Then the kindergartner started using some of the letters to sound out words.  (I didn’t correct any of the misspellings because I really want her to start sounding the words out for herself.)

 

practicing early literacy skills

 

Finally, she came up with a few short sentences that we sounded out together.  (I loved that she used some of her spelling words in the sentence!)

early literacy game

 

 

We will definitely be pulling this out again!  I’m looking forward to seeing what words they both come up with in the future!

 

Do you have any favorite games to use when working on literacy skills?

Filed Under: Language Arts Tagged With: alphabet activity, reading, sight words

Comments

  1. Melanie Thomas says

    March 13, 2014 at 8:15 am

    Great idea. I’m going to get out some Scrabble letters for learning play with my daughter.

    • OneMommy says

      March 15, 2014 at 7:52 pm

      Funny you should mention Scrabble… Just found out we have 2 sets of the game and I’m thinking the kids may get their own set of letters to play!

  2. Sara says

    March 14, 2014 at 10:55 am

    We just picked up magnetic letters to keep on the fridge, but I hadn’t thought about using the Bananagrams as well! Thank you.

  3. Paula @ Frosted Fingers says

    March 14, 2014 at 12:13 pm

    I have some bananagrams that I intended to do the same thing with! Great minds!

    • OneMommy says

      March 15, 2014 at 7:51 pm

      Yup! Maybe one day we’ll play it the real way! Can’t wait to see what words they make then!

  4. Betsy @ BPhotoArt says

    March 15, 2014 at 9:07 am

    What a great idea! Thanks for sharing; I think we may have this game sitting around somewhere…and I have a toddler dying to learn to read letters!

    • OneMommy says

      March 15, 2014 at 7:49 pm

      Sometimes I forget what great “tools of learning” we have just sitting in the old games!

  5. Amanda (Moming About) says

    March 16, 2014 at 8:13 pm

    This is awesome! Great use of an old game.

  6. Sarah says

    March 17, 2014 at 2:44 pm

    What a fun (and educational) activity. Bet the kids had lots of fun. I have on old Scrabble game that we could do this with.

  7. Sarah @ Play 2 Learn with Sarah says

    March 19, 2014 at 5:46 pm

    I love Bananagrams! I’ve used it with the kids, but also playing the game by the directions is fun too! Thanks for adding it to Kids in the Kitchen!

  8. Renee says

    October 8, 2015 at 7:24 am

    we love bananagrams!! our kiddos are little (1 and 2) so they don’t play yet (obviously – haha) but they love the tiles. plus they think they’re getting to play w/ a special grownup toy. it’ll be fun to actually play banangrams with them when they’re older.

    one idea for early readers is to have papers that have words with missing letters and then they would have to put the banangram tile on instead of writing the letter in. you could make the sheet have more words, or have all the words practice the same phonics sound. just a thought!

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