Pet Roll, Say, Keep Game

This is fun literacy center activity. Copy and laminate a gameboard for each child and three sets of real and nonsense word cards on cardstock paper. Students place a word card in each box on the gameboard, leaving the remaining cards in a draw pile. Players take turns rolling a die and reading the word on the card in the appropriate numbered box. If the player can read the word, he/she keeps it and replaces the card with another card from the draw pile. If the child cannot read the word, friends can help the child read the word, but the child cannot remove it from the gameboard.