Blake’s Learning Centres are a wonderful, motivating way for students to practise important skills. The games in these books are self-contained and portable. Students can work in small groups to practise key literacy skills. Once teachers have assembled the colourful and fun games they have a classroom resource that will last for years.

Each book contains full-colour materials to construct the easy-to-make games. The books also include instructions for assembling and playing the games as well as a reproducible work sheet and skills’ checklist for each game.

This series is an ideal companion to the Reading Assessment Tasks series, as each game targets specific literacy areas, enabling students to improve their skills in an easy and fun way.

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Blake's Learning Centres - Literacy Games	November 25, 2008
Reviewer: Laura McGhee from Brisbane, QLD Australia

"As a Primary Teacher I highly recommend this series of books. It is a fun, hands-on approach to teaching literacy. The children in my class enjoy the games and are fully engaged. The activities are really easy to organise and the books are very user friendly. Probably the best resource I have used in the classroom for Literacy."

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The books focus on the following skills that students need to master to become successful readers:

Literacy Games: Book 1
Book 1: 10 games (4—5yrs)
 - categorising objects
 - positional language
 - concepts of print
 - recognition of lower case letters
 - matching letters
 - identifying and matching lower case and upper case letters
 - identifying initial letters

Literacy Games: Book 2
Book 2: 10 games (5—6yrs)
 - sequencing events
 - recognition of letters
 - matching initial sounds and pictures
 - identifying beginning sounds in CVC words
 - identifying medial sounds in CVC words
 - identifying final sounds in CVC words
 - rhyming words
 - identifying the number of syllables in a word
 - reading high frequency words

Literacy Games: Book 3
Book 3: 8 games (6—7yrs)
 - reading CVC words
 - identifying missing initial blends
 - identifying missing diagraphs
 - reading high frequency words
 - creating compound words
 - identifying contractions
 - adding inflections
 - identifying punctuation