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Educational Reading Game

Allsaid and Dunn, LLC

Homeschool Review Crew

 

Does anyone in your home struggle with reading?  This educational reading game may be for you then.  The Reading Game, 2nd Edition from Allsaid and Dunn, LLC and Author Kenneth Hodkinson is an educational reading game that is a confidence builder for those who may struggle with reading.  

Kenneth Hodkinson, who is the creator of The Reading Game, is also the author of Wordly Wise which is an American series of workbooks that form a program for teaching words and spelling/vocabulary.  If you’re looking for a spelling or vocabulary program you should definitely check that out.  I have to say because we’ve enjoyed this game that we will be checking out Wordly Wise for our next year as the program works for grades 2-12. 

About the Game

The Reading Game, 2nd Edition focuses on helping children learn and improve their skills in four main areas.  Those four main areas are Foundational Skills, Language, Speaking and listening, and Reading.  Through this, they are developing a strong foundation to help them build on their skills as they grow older. 

While you do not have to have a dyslexic child to use this game it is said to be a great one for kids with dyslexia.  The game is for ages 4 and up and requires you to have at least two players though you can have more. 

Included in your bright yellow box you will find lots of goodies inside.  There are six decks of memory word card games, six sets of captioned picture flashcards, six storybooks, and a parent/teacher guide plus word family activities.  There are also resources online that can be printed out and used to help determine what the child is learning through playing the game.  These available worksheets are a pre/post game sight word assessment and a pre/post sight word class recording sheet.  

By the time your child is through with the entire game and book series, they will have worded a compilation of 180 words.  Each of the six storybooks contains 30 new words that are introduced in groups of five.  They are approximately 30 pages in length each as well. 

Each new set of five words are learned by doing the matching games using those words.  So it’s through rote and memorizations that they’re learned.  The game may go quickly until completed for some children and take longer for others.  That’s the beauty of it in that you can move at your own pace.  It is best for the game to be played daily though using it three days a week would be enough as long as you continue to play it. 

Our Thoughts

Have you ever played a memory or matching game?  That’s the premise of the base layer of this educational reading game.  You take the first set of five words, which makes ten cards, and use them to play with until the student can recognize and say the word they see. 

Then you move on to the next set of five.  Once both sets one and two are mastered they can read a word picture card.  There are three-word picture cards per color set of matching cards. 

Each level of cards teaches 30 words with six sets of five and for every two sets done you get to have a word picture card.  Once all of the cards within each level are learned they can read the storybook.  There are six storybooks. 

Getting to almost immediately show their word knowledge really helps build confidence and being able to read a short few sentences on the back of these cards really makes my child feel like she can read!

Who is Using?

My daughter who is using this game as the primary student is ten years old but suffers from dyslexia.  She has a really hard time recalling words and even letters that she has learned before.  This has been a fun way to help her learn.  Because it doesn’t have to be a parent who works with the child on this you can easily have an older sibling help. 

I have been having different siblings who are done with their school or waiting on a turn with the computer for their math to help her.  As long as they are older and can easily read the cards and stories they can help out!  Each time we start a new set of cards I make sure I’m the one helping her but after that, she can play it as much as she wants as long as an older sibling is available.  This would also be a great way to include grandparents and others in their school. 

This is a really fun educational reading game that is going to be on our shelf for quite some time.  I’m actually contemplating laminating some of the pieces so they don’t get torn as easily though they seem fairly sturdy right now. 

Older Students

Other kids who have been using this game are a few older kids who struggle with reading.  They easily went through several of the lower-level sets of words and books but are working on the last two books within the game.  I appreciate that they build on each other so that it is easy to find where your child really needs to be using the game. 

This is also a very fun and good game for those who are just learning their words.  For instance, my four-year-old doesn’t know all of his letters but he can play the first few levels of this game because he’s amazing at matching and because this game involves reading the word on the cards to them and then he can repeat it back to me he is able to pick out some of these words in books or when we’re out and about.  He is fully convinced he can read now!

In Conclusion

So, in conclusion, this is a wonderful educational reading game that we are loving and it will be on our school shelf for years to come.  Right now it is mainly being used for readers who are slower to catch on in our house as well as beginning readers.  I have a two-year-old and one due to arrive this summer so I can easily forsee this going on and on in our house.  

My older kids who help their siblings with this game even like it because we love matching and memory games in our house!

Learn More

Interested in learning more about The Reading Game and how an educational reading game might work in your homeschool?  Please go to the Main Blog Post over on the Homeschool Review Crew blog where you will find all of the reviews linked up.  Simply click on the links to read reviews from all types of homeschools and all ages and stages of children using the game. 

The Reading Game and Allsaid and Dunn, LLC can also be found on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube.  

Another fun opportunity for you is a giveaway from the company!  You can enter the giveaway over on the Main Blog Post on the Homeschool Review Crew site as well as read all the reviews. There are five copies of the game up for the giveaway so you have five different chances to win.