Phrase It – Pack A

Description

Phrase It® is a card game that builds word recognition and reading fluency by using the most common words (high frequency) in phrases. Designed by our Level 7 course tutor Marlene Caplan.

The words used in Phrase It® come from a brand new data set comprising 1,200 books (70 million words) called The Children and Young People’s Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX): A large-scale lexical database of books read by children and young people in the United Kingdom (Sage Publications, 2024) It is the most comprehensive and up-to-date word list of its kind. It updates and extends earlier word lists (e.g. Letters and Sounds, Fry’s Word List, Dolce Word List).

Pack A is intended for younger learners and contains words 1-50 from the data set. Set B has words 51-100.

How to play …

GAME 1: Players read cards aloud in turn, they keep the card if read correctly and gain a point. If not read quite right, the error is addressed and then the card goes to the bottom of the main pile.

GAME 2: Players have a set of 5 random cards each. They must create a sentence with 2 or 3 of their cards. They keep the cards if the sentence is formed correctly and gain a point per card kept. Then they select more cards to replace the ones used. The aim is to gain as many cards as possible in a certain time.

GAME 3: Somebody lays out a long line of cards. The player is timed and reads the card aloud as quickly (but as accurately) as possible. They repeat this trying to reduce how long they take to read the sentence each round.

Pads of score sheets also available.