Crazy Cards!
Need some help with lesson planning?
Words organized by spelling pattern?
Structured literacy games for centres?
Let Crazy Cards reduce your workload!
Crazy Cards REDUCE YOUR PREP TIME!
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Students can just grab game and play!
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Use the 1300 words for Spelling Word Lists
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Keep students on task for Literacy Centres
There are 25 different decks that go in order from simple to complex so you know which spelling patterns to teach and when!
SET 1: 5 Decks of Crazy Shorts for Starters (cvc, digraphs, floss, -ck, -ng/-nk) *digital only at this time
SET 2: 5 Decks of Crazy Shorts with Blends ("L" Blends, "R" Blends, "S" Blends, End Blends #1 & #2) *digital only at this time
SET 3: 5 Decks of the ORIGINAL Crazy Shorts (with some multisyllable words for differentiation) *
SET 4: 5 Decks of the ORIGINAL Crazy Longs (long vowels)*
SET 5: 5 Decks of the Original Crazy Mores (other vowel teams & Bossy r's)* *available in hard copy or digital to print, cut, & play
Use the words on these cards for spelling lists, and to guide your systematic instruction.
The Original Crazy Shorts help children recognize and understand short vowels by playing a card game similar to Crazy 8s, only with words! They sound out a word, and then make up a CRAZY sentence using that word. This gets them belly-laughing and having fun!
Each deck contains 63 cards (52 word cards, 7 wild cards, and 4 miss your turn cards).
$34.99CAD (5 decks)
Games created by experienced Ontario Certified Teacher, Certified Orton-Gillingham/Practical Linguistics Dyslexia Interventionist and English Language Arts instructor,
The Original Crazy Longs helps children recognize and understand long vowels in exactly the same way - by playing a fun card game that they WANT to play.
Each deck contains 63 cards (52 word cards, 7 wild cards, and 4 miss your turn cards).
$34.99CAD (5 decks)
The Original Crazy Mores go even further by teaching all of the other spelling patterns in English. Same game - same fun! And they can play these games with their siblings and friends!
Crazy Mores contains ways to spell the sound /oo/, /er/, and other spelling patterns. Each deck contains 63 cards (52 word cards, 7 wild cards, and 4 miss your turn cards).
$34.99CAD (5 decks)
NOTE: "Crazy Shorts for Starters" are available to download & print only (e-decks only)
The Original Crazy Shorts, Crazy Longs, and Crazy Mores are available "ready-made" or to download.
Crazy Cards may also be downloaded for you to print, cut, and play!
Reg. $9.99CAD/Set of 5 E-Decks SALE! $7.99CAD
(each deck contains 7 double-sided colour pages, however you may just print on one side to save ink ;)
Founder of Sound Readers Crazy Cards, Martha Kovack, MEd,. talking with founder of Reading Simplified, Dr. Marnie Ginsberg, about the card games and their instructional power.