Description
trugs Stage 0 introduces the first letter sounds and leads into reading whole consonant-vowel-consonant words, for learners 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, ff, l, ll and ss.
- Take It blends vowel-consonant pairs such as at, en, id, op and ug.
Two more games, Find It and Word It, use the same cards. Word It combines Match It and Take It for reading whole words such as sat and pit. Once those sounds are secure, move on to trugs Pack 1 (Stages 1-5).
What’s in the pack
81 pop-out cards on 9 sturdy A4 sheets:
- Get It (green): 16 letter cards and 2 Master Cards
- Match It (pink): 30 letter cards and 3 trugs joker cards
- Take It (yellow): 20 word cards in 5 sets of 4
- A face card for each game, an Explanation Card, and 6 cards with how to play all five games
The cards come ready printed: pop them out and play, with no printing or cutting. The flat pack posts at a lower cost, with no loss of card quality. Keep the cards in the envelope or a box of your own.
Prefer to print at home?
trugs Stage 0 Letter Sounds, Download & Print gives you the same cards as an A4 PDF to print on thick card and trim at home.
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.
