Language Arts Letter Cubes: Fun Literacy Center Freebie

I love to use foam blocks for all sorts of language arts fun. Most recently, I created a game that my students adore. Here are the steps so you can create it too.

1) You can purchase colorful foam cubes on Amazon for a very reasonable price. I included a link at the bottom of the post.

2) Select 12 cubes and with a permanent marker add the vowels and consonants as suggested in the table below.
3) Assign the point value on the bottom right hand corner. This will also help the players to orient the letters. For example, the letter M will look like the letter W when it is upside-down but as long as the number indicating the point value is in the bottom right hand corner, players can recognize that they need to rotate the letter to the proper orientation. Also, using capital letters helps with letter confusion.

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4) Other items needed to play:

• a timer
• a set of 12 colored cubes with the letters and point values for each player.

5) How to Play:

• Each player rolls a set of 12 colored cubes onto his or her playing area (players can not change the orientation of the cubes but must use the letters rolled).
• Set and begin the timer for 2-5 minutes. You can decide on the amount of time you prefer.
• Words must crisscross or join like a scrabble game, and players must try to use as many cubes as they can. Like Scrabble, proper names and abbreviations can not be used.
• When the timer goes off, the round ends and players add up their points as indicated on the cubes for each word created.
• Bonuses are granted as follows:
• 4 points for a 6 letter word
• 5 points for a 7 letter word
• 6 points for a 8 letter word
• 5 points for using all 12 cubes
The winner is the player with the highest score after 5 rounds

If you would like to learn about some of my other popular reading games, go to: http://goodsensorylearning.com/reading-games.html There, you can even download another fun, free game for learning the short vowels!

If you like this or have any other ideas, please share your thoughts!!

Cheers, Erica

Dr. Erica Warren is the author, illustrator and publisher of multisensory educational materials at Good Sensory Learning and Dyslexia Materials.  She is also the director of Learning to Learn and Go Dyslexia, in Ossining, NY.  To learn more about her products and services, you can go to https://godyslexia.com/, www.goodsensorylearning.com, www.dyslexiamaterials.com & www.learningtolearn.biz  
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