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Family literacy games

Family literacy games are a great way of bringing learning into the home and involving parents in their children’s education. Family literacy games can enable parents to practise key areas of the English curriculum such as phonics and reinforce reading and comprehension skills.

Family literacy games help children to supplement their learning from school in a fun and relaxed home environment where all the family can learn together. Younger siblings can benefit from exposure to concepts above their school level through games that allow mixed age and ability groups to play together. Some literacy games are well known family favourites such as the classic ‘Scrabble’ and more recent names such as ‘Boggle’.

The element of fun in family literacy games is very important, as the experience should be enjoyable for everyone. Card games and board games can cover topics such as phonic sounds of letters, letter blends, word building, sentence structure, punctuation and many more areas. Literacy card games can also be used as travel games that can be useful on a journey and other compact games can be enjoyed on a holiday.

Family literacy games help to motivate and encourage children who may be reluctant readers or writers. Improving word building and word recognition skills at home can help with schoolwork in the classroom. These games are enjoyed by boys and girls of varying ages and abilities and improve social skills as well as literacy skills. As well as literacy games there are also many numeracy games that can be enjoyed by the whole family.