Description
trugs stands for Teach Reading Using Games. With a school license, your teaching and support staff can print the trugs card games for Stages 11 to 15 for as many of your learners as need them, and learners can take sets home to play with family and friends. You control the printing, which keeps the cost down.
| Stages 11 to 15 | Word examples |
|---|---|
| Stage 11: c as in /s/ | mice, pencil, succeed |
| Stage 12: g as in /j/ | gem, page, rigid |
| Stage 13: consonant-le | candle, sensible |
| Stage 14: four-syllable words | independent |
| Stage 15: suffixes with ti, ci, si | electrician |
Every stage has three card games: Get It, Match It and Take It. An Explanation Card for each stage says what it teaches, so there is nothing to look up. The structure was put together by a dyslexia specialist, so you can simply play.
How to print, cut and play
- Open the PDF for the stage you want. Each card’s title bar shows the stage and the game.
- Print onto thick card. We use 275 gsm, stiff enough to shuffle and deal.
- Cut the cards out along the crop marks with a paper trimmer, so they are all the same size.
- Sort them into the three games by border colour: Get It (green), Match It (pink) and Take It (yellow), each with its Explanation Card.
- Put a band round each game and keep them in a box.
Download a free sample sheet (PDF) to try the cards on your own printer first.
Your school license
You can:
- let teaching and support staff in your school print copies for your own learners and their families
- send printed packs home with learners to play with family
- save the file to a USB drive or private cloud drive to have it printed at a print shop for school use
You can’t:
- share the files with anyone outside your school, by email, USB, cloud upload, messaging or any other way
- sell or give the files to anyone else, or sell printed copies
- edit or alter the files, or upload them online for others
- suggest that you created the files, or use the files or prints commercially
trugs printables aren’t covered by the CLA copying license; this school license is what allows copying across classes. Read the full school license (PDF). For a custom license, email trugs@readsuccessfully.com.
Created by Joanna Jeffery
Joanna Jeffery, MA(Ed), Cert Ed, Dip (Dys), AMBDA, is a qualified teacher with 35 years’ experience and a phonics specialist. She saw that learners want to enjoy learning to read, so she combined the professional side of decoding with the fun of card games, and created trugs: Teach Reading Using Games.
