My husband’s grandma called the other day to ask if I had any ideas for teaching the th sound. As a tutor, this is a game I played with my students. I had hand drawn all of the images for the board I used to have. I made a printable for you. If you use this, please let me know. If not, someone please lie to me. It was a fairly involved printable. 
I got this game idea from a great book called “Games for Reading,” by Peggy Kaye. You can cut out all the images for the game board and glue them down. They’re bigger than I had intended, so I used a big piece of tag board. Abigail helped me glue down the images. Then, I made a spinner out of tag board, a marker, a brad (paper fastener) and a paper clip. The game involves spinning. Whatever you land on determines where you move. The spinner has ch, th, wh, sh and pentaly space on it. So, if you were at the beginning and rolled a th, you would move forward to the thumb. You take turns. The person who arrives at the mouth first wins. The images are shoe, whale, wheel, thumb, cherry, go back to start, leash, couch, go back two spaces, throne, whiskers, shell, chicken, three, cash, go back four spaces, month, whisper, whipped cream, birthday cake, lose a turn, beach, go back one space, flashlight, checkers, moth, leash, thread, ship, matches, dishes, go back one space, chipmunk, miss two turns, white, shirt, watch, whistle, chair, trash, go back five spaces, wheat, sheep, math, return to the last ch word, wheel barrow, chain, and mouth. Time to play!
I got this game idea from a great book called “Games for Reading,” by Peggy Kaye. You can cut out all the images for the game board and glue them down. They’re bigger than I had intended, so I used a big piece of tag board. Abigail helped me glue down the images. Then, I made a spinner out of tag board, a marker, a brad (paper fastener) and a paper clip. The game involves spinning. Whatever you land on determines where you move. The spinner has ch, th, wh, sh and pentaly space on it. So, if you were at the beginning and rolled a th, you would move forward to the thumb. You take turns. The person who arrives at the mouth first wins. The images are shoe, whale, wheel, thumb, cherry, go back to start, leash, couch, go back two spaces, throne, whiskers, shell, chicken, three, cash, go back four spaces, month, whisper, whipped cream, birthday cake, lose a turn, beach, go back one space, flashlight, checkers, moth, leash, thread, ship, matches, dishes, go back one space, chipmunk, miss two turns, white, shirt, watch, whistle, chair, trash, go back five spaces, wheat, sheep, math, return to the last ch word, wheel barrow, chain, and mouth. Time to play!
How great is that! Great idea. Thank you for sharing. Also, thank you for the visit and sweet comment @TheDedicatedHouse. It means the world!! Wishing you a grand day. Toodles, Kathryn
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Wow. That is a beautiful game board. I can imagine how long it took you. You are so creative! Do you have a favorite resource for teaching your children to read? Thanks for sharing!
I have a couple things I’ve used in tutoring and now do with my kids too. I got this idea from “Games for Reading” by Peggy Kaye. It’s a real fun way to help with reading I also use the “Explode the Code” workbook series. Here’s a link to a post I did about it. http://www.meaningfulmama.com/2012/02/day-53-explode-code.html It’s a phonics based program. That’s about all I’m doing besides reading to them and picking out simple books they can begin reading me me. I hope that’s helpful.
Totally using this for my kinders tomorrow! Found it on pinterest!
Sweet! I was hoping it would be helpful to someone out there. I hope it went really well. Let me know if you have time. Thanks!
This looks great! Am pinning it to try!
That’s wonderful. Thanks so much!
This is such a great game! We have been working on digraphs, and I was trying to come up with ideas to make it more fun, and you’ve definitely done that. I can’t wait to print this off and play with my little ones!
I’m so glad you’re going to use it. I was really hoping it would be helpful to someone. Abby has asked to play again a few times now.
Love it! I’ve downloaded the file and will keep this for a summer “emergency”! Thanks for putting it together and sharing with the rest of us!
Cool! I really hope you get to it. It was a lot of fun for my oldest.
What a great way to having a very portable digraph board game
Such a great idea! Thanks I’m going to try it with my first graders!
I also have a group of first graders that will benefit from this game. I have several versions for word families, short vowels, CVC vs. CVCe words, etc. However, adding this game for digraphs will be great. No need to reinvent the wheel!! Thank you for doing this work!
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Floating Through First Grade