Four-in-a-row games for i-e words

I’m sharing yet another free printable for practice reading i-e words!

These four-in-a-row reading games take the boring out of reading practice.  Plus, they’re quick to print and play!

Print the game you’d like to play. I include four in the download:

• CVCe (i-e) words, such as ride and time
• CCVCe (blend or digraph + consonant + silent e) words, such as smile or write.
• Short i words, such as tip and sit, PLUS CVCe words
• Short i words beginning with a blend or digraph, such as grin and twig, PLUS CCVCe words

*You may think that adding in those short vowel words make a game easier, but it actually makes them harder. You child can’t automatically assume a word has the long i sound, so he really has to think about the spelling pattern before reading a word.

Even after a morning at kindergarten, my Five needs no coaxing to play Four in a Row.  We take turns reading a word and dotting it with a Do-a-Dot marker.  It’s a race to see who gets four in a row first!

Sometimes we see who gets four in a row, and then we just take turns reading and dotting the remaining words.  Other times we don’t play four in a row at all. We just read and dot.  My Five likes to see how fast he can read!

We can play all four games in about ten minutes.  I love these jam-packed reading sessions! They give just enough time for reading practice without keeping my Five away from his Legos for too long. ;).

Enjoy!

More 4-in-a-row silent e games:

• a-e
• o-e
• u-e

Find all our silent e printables here!

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