Customer Reviews

Chunks - A Word Building Game (Using Onsets and Rimes)

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I homeschool my 3 children, one is a beginning reader, the second is a struggling reader and my third is fantastic reader, but awful in spelling, so finding an educational game that they can all play is always a challenge. This game works for all 3 children! My beginner reader is learning beginning AND advance phonics, my struggling reader is continuing to work on his skills and improving rapidly the more we play, and my advance reader must read the word, then turn the word over and spell it to keep the word! On top of those benefits, we often keep the computer nearby and "look-up" any potential words that we don't think are actual words, but turns out that they are ... so then we get a vocabulary lesson as well! Needless to say - I LOVE this game and highly recommend!!

I really like playing with Chunks with my [...] son. We learn to make silly words and real words and at the same time learn some needed skills for reading. Chunks are easily sorted into easy word groups and harder word groups (blends).By having the beginning sound(s) separate from the ending, you can work on rhyming as well.

This game is fantastic! I use this game with my special education students 1-4th grade. It is fun, rules are simple, and the students are excited to play the game.

The tiles are divided in to Onsets and Rimes (beginning and ending sounds). Students draw an Onset and Rime tile. If they make a word, they keep the tiles. Next turn, the students continue to draw two tiles but can also use the tiles they have won to form new words. If they can form a new word with the tiles, then they can keep them. Student with the most tiles wins. Game play is very simple and straight forward. This would make an excellent center for reading time. I highly recommend this game to every elementary teacher that teaches reading.

I used the game as a tool in helping my dyslexic child to identify chunks of sounds in words. We had fun at the same time helping him improve his sounding out abilities.

I use Chuncks with my students (elementary, both LD and reg. ed).It is a fantastic product. I find it works best when working with phonics. Visual learning, you will NOT be disappointed.

This is an excellent way to teach young children how words are formed by combining word chunks. It helps them learn individual sounds and how they come together to form words. It is also valuable for reinforcing phonics in older children. The game comes with two different color tiles. The yellow tiles are the beginning of words and the green tiles are the endings. Players pick up two tiles and try to form a word. For younger players I find that it is helpful to reduce the number of tiles you use to play. It can be overwhelming for a beginning reader to try find two tiles that form a word when they are working with all of the tiles (there are a total of 144 tiles + 6 blank ones).

We purchased this game because my daughter's teacher said it would be helpful. My daughter loves playing and it has helped. My complaint is the price for the quality. The "chunks" are thin pieces of plastic, for a price tag of $27+ I expected something much nicer. I wouldn't suggest buying it to anyone due to the quality. You would be better of making the tiles yourself out of cardstock and laminating them.