Websites for Literacy - Pink Cat Games
Written by: Brianna Guild, MHSc SLP
Date: November 3, 2023
Have you used Pink Cat Games? This website features fun and engaging educational review games for any subject. There is a large library of over 200 games (4 are free!) and existing questions/quizzes. You can make your own quizzes to embed your desired target words, sentences, pictures or other targets within a game, or choose from hundreds of quizzes created by other educators! This allows for a more play-based activity and can really motivate students during virtual (or in person) lessons.
1. Phonological Awareness
- Phonemic awareness: Search for your target skill, such as “CVC Words” or “Consonant Blends”, and have the student complete phoneme awareness tasks with each target word, such as isolating the initial, medial or final sound, deleting a sound, or manipulating a sound to create a new word.
- Rhyming: Search for your target skill, such as “CVC Words” or “Vowel Teams”, and have the student generate a rhyming words for each target word. There are also pre-made lists for rhyme identification activities, or you could make your own questions!
- TIP: For a purely phonological task (no text), in the “general settings” of the game you select to play, scroll down to “maximum number of possible answers” and select “check mark only”, then scroll to “for the question, show the:” and select “picture”.
2. Phonics
- Word and sentence level reading: Work on word or sentence level reading with existing phonics lists (e.g., CVC words, r-controlled vowels) or create your own lists or words or sentences.
- Phonogram drill: Use themed flashcards (paid version) for phonogram/sound drills to review all the phonograms a student has learned. You can even make your own phonogram or word lists.
- Phonics word sorts: Use sorting games (paid version) to sort words by categories, such as vowel sound, word family (e.g., -ab, -at) or syllable type (e.g., closed, open).
3. Vocabulary
- Choose from pre-made vocabulary lists of a certain category (e.g., animals, food, nouns) to use for a variety of games. For example, match words to pictures, show only the picture or word and have the student describe the picture or word, or sort words by categories.
- There are also many pre-made activities for parts of speech (e.g., nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs), synonyms and antonyms, multiple meanings and more!
4. Reading Fluency
- Work on reading accuracy, rate, and expression during sentence level reading tasks.
- Work on reading with feeling by reading sentences with a different feeling (e.g., happy, sad, mad) and discuss how changing the feeling changes the meaning of the sentence.
If you can’t find pre-made lists specific to your students’ goals, consider creating your own. Just insert words, sentences, or pictures, and the website will embed your targets into the game of your students’ choosing!
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