trugs Stage 0 Letter Sounds, Download & Print, Personal & Tutoring License

Description

trugs Stage 0 introduces the first letter sounds and leads into reading whole consonant-vowel-consonant words, for children from about 3 years old. The sounds follow the Letters and Sounds order and are taught through three card games.

• Get It introduces the first letter sounds: s, a, t, p, i, n.
• Match It adds the next sounds: m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, l.
• Take It blends consonant-vowel pairs such as an, ed, id, op and un.

Once those sounds are secure, Match It and Take It combine into a final game for reading whole words such as cat and pit. Then move on to trugs Pack 1 (Stages 1-5).

How to print, cut and play

1. Open the PDF. Each card’s title bar shows the stage and the game.
2. Print onto thick card. We use 275 gsm, stiff enough to shuffle and deal.
3. Cut the cards out along the crop marks with a paper trimmer, so they are all the same size.
4. Sort them into the three games by border colour: Get It (green), Match It (pink) and Take It (yellow), each with its Explanation Card.
5. Put a band round each game and keep them in a box.

How to play each game (PDF)

Your license: personal and tutoring use

You can:

• print copies for your own use, or for the learners you tutor and their families
• use the printed cards in your own tutoring sessions, including paid sessions
• save the file to a USB drive or private cloud drive to have it printed at a print shop for your own use

You can’t:

• share the files with anyone 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
• use the files across a school, tutoring centre or other organisation: that needs a school license

This is a one-off purchase, so the license has no time limit. trugs printables aren’t covered by the CLA copying license. Read the full license (PDF). Questions: 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 children 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.