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The ABC Games

1. The ABC Shape Game

Aim: to practice the recognition of ABC letters.

Ask students to find objects in the classroom that have a similar shape to the ABC letters.

2. The ABC Relay Race Game

Aim: to practice the order of ABC letters.

Materials: two sets of ABC letter cards or magnetic letters.

Place the cards/magnets in two piles in front of the board. Divide the class into two teams and line them up at the end of the classroom. Place the letter A on the board for both teams. Then one student from each team should run to their pile of letters, find the next letter and place it on the board. The winner is the first team to place all the ABC letters on the board in the correct order.

3. The ABC Memory Game

Aim: to teach the ABC sounds and letter names.

Materials: a set of ABC letter cards.

Show one of the ABC letter cards to the students and drill the name and the sound of the letter. Then find some classroom object that begins with that letter and place the card next to it. For example: the letter P might be placed next to a pencil. Place from 6 to 8 cards around the classroom. Say one of the ABC letters and ask students to find the corresponding letter card.

4. The ABC Whisper Game

Aim: to practice the ABC letter names.

Write the ABC letters that you are teaching on the board. Divide the class into two teams and have them line up in front of the board. Give the student at the front of each line a board eraser and then stand at the end of the line furthest from the board. Whisper or show some ABC letter to one student from each team. The students in turn whisper the letter down the line. Once the student at the front of the line hears the letter, he/she should race to the board to erase that letter before the other team does. The first team to erase the letter gets a point.

5. The ABC Line Bingo

Aim: to practice the ABC letter names/sounds.

Materials: a set of small ABC letter cards.

Play the game with 6 to 8 letters at a time. Give each student or a pair of students, a set of small ABC letter cards and ask them to arrange the cards in a horizontal line in any order. Call out a letter, or a sound. The students should look at their cards and find the corresponding letter. If the letter is on the left or right end of the line of cards, then the student can turn that letter over. If the letter is in the middle of the line, then they cannot turn it over. The winner is the first student to turn over all the ABC cards.

6. The ABC Order Game

Aim: to teach the order of ABC letters.

Materials: a set of ABC letter cards.

Mix up the letter cards and give one to each student. Play the ABC song. When the students hear their letter, they stand up, show their letter card and shout the letter name loud.

7. The ABC Matching Game

Aim: to practice the ABC letter names and the corresponding words.

Materials: a set of ABC vocabulary flashcards, a set of ABC letter cards.

Ask students to match the first letter the word begins with to each flashcard. A variation is to ask students to spell out the word using the letter cards.

8. Fishing for Letters

Aim: to practice the ABC letter names and sounds.

Material: a set of magnetic letters, a fishing pole.

Turn all of the magnetic letters over so that the magnet side is facing up. Students take turns fishing for a letter. As they catch the letter, they name it and say the sound the letter represents.

9. Mystery Bag

Aim: to practice the ABC letter names and sounds.

Materials: a set of objects, a bag.

Put the objects (book, pen, ruler etc) into the bag. Students reach into the bag, pull out the object, then name the letter the object begins with and say the sound the letter represents.

10. The ABC Hopscotch

Aim: to practice the ABC letter sounds and the corresponding words.

Materials: a set of ABC letter cards.

Arrange the ABC letter cards in a hopscotch pattern on the classroom floor. Students hop to letters and call out the sound and an object that begins with that letter. The winner is the student who gets through all the 26 letters the fastest.

11. The ABC Pictures Game

Aim: to practice the ABC letter names and the corresponding words.

Materials: a white board.

Say a letter. The students have to draw an object that begins with that letter. The more objects the students draw, the more points they get.

12. I Spy

Aim: to practice the ABC letter names and the corresponding words.

Materials: a set of ABC colouring vocabulary pictures for every student.

Students get sets of ABC colouring vocabulary pictures. Say: “I spy with my eye something that begins with m”. Students should find the corresponding picture and colour it.

13. The ABC Mess

Aim: to practice the order of ABC letters.

Materials: two sets of ABC letter cards.

Divide the class into two teams. Give each team a shuffled set of ABC letter cards. Have the teams race to place their sets in the correct alphabetical order.

14. Find Your Partner

Aim: to practice the ABC letter names and the corresponding words.

Materials: a set of matching ABC vocabulary and letter flashcards.

Distribute the matching vocabulary flashcards and letter cards to the students (one card per child). On your command, students walk around trying to find their partners, either silently or by chanting their cards over and over. Once they have located their partners, the students turn the cards over to you, naming them as they do so (“C, cat”).

15. Doubt

Aim: to practice the order of ABC letters.

Materials: two/three sets of ABC letter cards.

Students sit in a circle. Distribute two/three sets of ABC letter cards. Begin by placing an “A” card (or cards) face down in the middle of the circle. The next student in the circle places one or all of his/her “B” cards in the centre after naming, the next student –  his/her “C” cards, and so on around the circle. If a student does not have the next letter, he/she is forced to cheat by claiming that whatever he/she lays down is the next letter in the alphabet. If he/she is caught cheating (i.e. if another student yells “Doubt!” or “Liar!”), he/she must take all of the cards in the centre pile. If a student is wrongly accused, the accuser must take the cards instead. The winner is the first student to get rid of all the cards.

16. Back to Back Writing

Aim: to practice writing the ABC letters.

Materials: two sets of ABC letter cards, a whiteboard.

Two teams sit in parallel lines, with all the students facing the same direction and the whiteboard placed in front of the students. Show the last student on each team a letter card, which they must trace on the next student’s back and so on up the line. The first player to write the correct letter on the whiteboard and name it scores a point for the team.

17. Circle the Letter

Aim: to practice the recognition of ABC letters.

Divide the class into two teams. Write random letters on the board. Call out a letter. Students race to circle the correct letter. The first player to circle the correct letter on the board scores a point for the team.

18. The ABC Scramble

Aim: to practice the order of ABC letters.

Materials: two sets of ABC letter cards.

Divide the class into two teams. Give six students on each team a letter card. Give the same letter cards to six students on the other team. Count down from ten. The first team to stand in the correct alphabetical order at the front of the class gets a pint. Continue, changing the letter cards each time and making sure that all of the students get a chance.