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Peg and Popsicle Stick Words

Learning to Read

23 Nov

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My 4-year-old LOVES this hands-on activity. It’s great for building the muscles in little ones’ fingers as well as helping them to read and spell. Quick and easy Peg and Popsicle Stick Word activity coming up!

peg and popsicle word building activities for learning to read-8

Page Contents

  • Materials Needed to Build the Word
  • How to Build Your Peg and Popsicle Stick Words
  • How to Use Your Peg and Popsicle Stick Words
  • What words can I create?
  • Extending your Building the Word Activity
    • Digraphs and Trigraphs
    • Grow with Your Child
    • Spelling Part 1
    • Spelling Part 2
    • Spelling Part 3
    • Spelling Part 4
    • Why not try one of our Building the Word Block Activity?

Materials Needed to Build the Word

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peg word game for learning to read the materials needed to produce this simple hands-on activity

Wooden clothes pegs

Popsicle sticks

Felt tip pens

How to Build Your Peg and Popsicle Stick Words

making your own resources to support your child learn to read. Popsicle stick and peg word building activity

  1. In a coloured felt tip pen, write the desired vowels on the sticks (A,E,I,O,U).
  2. In a different coloured pen, write the desired consonants on the pegs.

How to Use Your Peg and Popsicle Stick Words

pegs and popsicle stick word building activity for learning to read.

  1. Place the pegs around the sticks to create a vast array of words for your child to read.

peg and popsicle word building activities for learning to read-8

What words can I create?

For ideas on the words you can create with the letters we’ve learned so far, please look at our word lists.

Extending your Building the Word Activity

Digraphs and Trigraphs

Your child learning consonant digraphs (2 letter sounds) like ll, ss, zz? No sweat! Use slightly wider pegs to easily fit double letters on.

building words with diagraphs using pegs and popsicle sticks

How about when they learn the vowel digraphs like oi, ai, ur and ee? Or even trigraphs (3 letter sounds) like igh? No worries! Use a new peg and write them on the peg like to had for the single vowels previously.

building words with vowel digraphs

Grow with Your Child

What I really love about this activity is that you do not need to create pegs and sticks for ALL sounds straight away. If your child is one Week 1: S,A,T,P then you only need a popsicle stick with a on it and 3 pegs with the s, t, p written on. As your child learns new letters and sounds, your collection can begin to grow.

Spelling Part 1

Give your child some pictures with labels (available soon from us), such as cat, tap, pin. Ask your child to create the word to go with the picture using the labels to help them match.

Spelling Part 2

Give your child some pictures of simple words (available soon from us), such as cat, tap, pin. Ask your child to create the word to go with the picture.

Spelling Part 3

Don’t give your child all the letters!

Let me give you can example. You write ‘ca’ on your peg and stick. Can they tell you the missing letter and finish building it to check if they are correct?

Spelling Part 4

Give your child a word and a pre-chosen vowel stick. Ask them to spell a word and let them create the word from the choice of letter sticks given.

Why not try one of our Building the Word Block Activity?

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