{"id":645,"date":"2021-10-12T13:15:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/?page_id=645"},"modified":"2022-03-01T16:44:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T21:44:13","slug":"racetrack-game","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/grade-1\/oral-language-kit\/oral-language-games\/racetrack-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Racetrack Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"body\">\n\n\t\t\t\n\n<div id=\"Section-One\" class=\"section\">\n\n\t\t<p>The Racetrack Game promotes social language as students take turns and cooperate to play a game involving the exploration of short vowel sounds in non-rhyming words. As students maneuver around the game board, they practise reading, listening, and creative thinking skills. The game enhances spelling knowledge and vocabulary acquisition.<\/p>\n\t<p><span class=\"Blue_hi-lite_noItalics\"><strong>Materials:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"Blue_hi-lite\"><br>\n\t\t<\/span>&#8211; <a href=\"\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/pdfs\/grade-1\/pdfs\/oralanguagegames\/racetrack_game_BLM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Racetrack Game Board<\/a><br>\n\t\t&#8211; playing pieces (cars, if possible)<br>\n\t\t&#8211; one die per group <br>\n\t  <span class=\"Blue_hi-lite_noItalics\"><strong>Grouping:<\/strong><\/span> small groups of 3 to 4 players<\/p>\n\t\t<p><span class=\"author\"><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/span> There are two BLMs for the Racetrack Game Board. These need to be attached to make a racetrack before the game begins. <\/p>\n\t\t<h2 id=\"Playing_the_Game\"><span class=\"heading2\">Playing the Game<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t<ol>\n\t\t<li>Place the playing pieces at the \u2018Start\u2019 of the race. <\/li>\n\t\t<li>Decide who will go first and move your playing piece clockwise around the track.<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Roll the die. Move your marker the correct number of spaces as shown on the die.<\/li>\n\t\t<li>If you land on a word, pronounce the word correctly. To stay on the space, you must say another word with the same vowel sound. If you cannot think of another word, you must return to your original spot. If you land on a special racetrack square, follow the instructions on the square.<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Continue playing by passing the die to the next player. The first player to finish the course and race their car off the track wins.<br>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ol>\n\t\t<h3 id=\"Variations\"><span class=\"author\">Variations<\/span>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<ul>\n\t\t<li>You might want students to keep track of the words they land on and organize them in columns according to each short vowel.<br>\n\t\tProvide a <a href=\"\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/pdfs\/grade-1\/pdfs\/oralanguagegames\/racetracktemplate_BLM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Create Your Own Racetrack<\/a> game for students to create their own version of the game. <strong>Note:<\/strong> There are two BLMs that will need to be attached to make the racetrack.<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<p><\/p>\n\t\t\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Racetrack Game promotes social language as students take turns and cooperate to play a game involving the exploration of short vowel sounds in non-rhyming words. As students maneuver around the game board, they practise reading, listening, and creative thinking skills. The game enhances spelling knowledge and vocabulary acquisition. Materials: &#8211; Racetrack Game Board &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":612,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_education_content.php","meta":{"protect_children":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-645","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/645\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}