Description
trugs stands for Teach Reading Using Games. Download & Print puts the trugs card games for Stages 6 to 10 in your hands as an A4 PDF, so you print, trim and play at home. You control the printing, which keeps the cost down, and you can print a replacement whenever a card goes missing.
| Stages 6 to 10 | Word examples |
|---|---|
| Stage 6: split digraph (vowel-consonant-e) | make, these, fine, code, tuneful |
| Stage 7: vowel digraphs and trigraphs | snail, seen, light, boat, statue |
| Stage 8: alternative vowel digraphs | boy, out, paw |
| Stage 9: two-syllable words | limit, pilot |
| Stage 10: three-syllable words | consider, discontent |
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 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.
