Go for the Dough® Board Game is a fast-paced, vocabulary-building board game that helps students improve word recall, describing, semantic flexibility, and phonemic awareness.
As players deliver imaginary pizzas, they earn Super Dough Dollars, reinforcing essential language skills in an engaging, hands-on way.
What makes this vocabulary board game so effective?
Offers flexible gameplay—students can focus on one category or mix multiple language skills.
Reinforces learning through hands-on engagement with Super Dough Dollars that feel like real money.
Encourages turn-taking, strategic thinking, and interaction, keeping students motivated and engaged.
6 Key Language Areas
Go for the Dough® targets six key language areas with 480 Super Dough Dollars:
80 synonyms
80 rhyming words
80 opposites
80 categories
80 multiple-meaning words
80 definitions
Why this learning approach works so well:
Game-based learning keeps students engaged, making vocabulary practice fun and memorable.
Real-world application strengthens semantic connections and language flexibility.
Encourages repetition and reinforcement, helping students build word knowledge naturally.
Multisensory elements, such as handling play money and moving across the board, enhance memory and retention.
Who is the Go for the Dough® board game helpful for?
This vocabulary board game targets language development in students in grades prekindergarten and up. Go for the Dough® is an educational resource for Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), special educators, teachers, and parents. Its versatility makes this game great for various learning environments, including small or large groups in the classroom, in one-on-one speech therapy sessions, or at home.
Why Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), special educators, teachers, and parents love this vocabulary game:
This game is six games in one! It deals with rhyming, categorization, synonyms and antonyms, definitions and multiple meanings. It can be used for articulation, and it improves processing.
The various card types can be modified and used with a wide range of students.
Students love this game and are always begging to play the "pizza game".
The board can be used with other "money" cards, like articulation deck cards, to help make articulation drills less tedious.
Go for the Dough® includes:
Colourful, sturdy game board (16" x 16")
480 Super Dough Dollars (4¼" x 2⅛")
6 car pawns
Die
Booklet containing suggested answers
WARNING! Super Dough Dollars are made of tear-proof material but will melt if laminated.
Product Warning: Choking hazard, contains small parts. Not intended for children under the age of three.
