Joel Swagman (Reviews / TESOL)

I use these cards in several stages.

I start out with some of the alphabet cards from this previous activity. I take the "I" card, and ask students what sound it makes. Then I take the "G" sound, and ask what sound it makes, and then put the two cards together, and try to get students to tell me the sound.

I then take out several consonants, and get the students to tell me the sound, and then put these consonants together with the -IG to make different words, helping students to sound them out.

At this point I put out the picture cards, and as we do different CVC -IG words, I get students to identify the pictures.

Once all the words and pictures have been identified, then we play a memory card game to match the words and pictures.

Lastly, I put away the word cards, and just show students the pictures. The students have to write down the word on their mini-white boards.