Countdown Practice Cards MiniDeck User's Guide
Welcome to the Countdown Practice Cards MiniDeck! We hope that these cards provide countless opportunities for your students to practice the foundational skills they are learning in their Countdown lessons or other foundational skills instruction.
The cards can be used to practice the following skills and more:
- Rhyming
- Initial phoneme identification/matching
- Final phoneme identification/matching
- Vowel phoneme identification/ matching/categorization
- Counting phonemes • Segmenting or blending phonemes
- Letter-sound identification
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The user's guide includes brief instructions for games that can be played with the cards. Feel free to modify these to meet your needs. For most of these card games, you will need to presort and choose the cards that you want students to work with. Feel free to play any additional phonemic awareness and phonics games you come up with using the cards. A list of all of the words contained in the deck and their attributes can be found at the end of this guide.
