Phonological Awareness Chipper Chat®

Phonological awareness lays the foundation for successful reading and writing, and Chipper Chat® makes learning these crucial skills fun and engaging.

Say "at." Now, put "ch" at the beginning. What do you get? "Chat," as in "Chipper Chat!", the coolest magnetic way to improve students' pre-reading skills!

This "magical" game is expertly designed to transform learning into a thrilling adventure for young minds. Phonological awareness, a cornerstone of early literacy, is fostered through a series of interactive activities and challenges. Children explore rhyming, blending, segmenting, and more, all while having a blast. This game's colourful chips, "magic" magnetic wand, and captivating game boards turn learning into playtime.

What makes this language development game so effective?

12 Phonological Awareness Skill Areas

Phonological Awareness Chipper Chat® is the ultimate resource for students who are pre-readers and students who have acquired some reading skills, but need additional assistance in the area of phonological awareness. This game is so comprehensive that it targets twelve different areas of phonological awareness skills including:

1. Discrimination of rhyming words
2. Production of rhyming words
3. Segmentation of words in a sentence
4. Blending of syllables
5. Segmentation of syllables
6. Deletion of syllables
7. Identification of phonemes
8. Blending of phonemes
9. Segmentation of phonemes
10. Deletion of phonemes
11. Addition of phonemes
12. Manipulation of phonemes

With 450 items in each phonological area, students will have a phenomenal amount of phonological fun! That's a grand total of 5,400 opportunities to improve pre-reading skills!

Quick Assessments

Phonological Awareness Chipper Chat® also includes a "Quick Assessment" for each of the twelve phonological skills areas. The "Quick Assessments" provide the teachers and SLPs with an easy method to determine:

• A starting point in the program
• Emerging skills of the student
• Mastery of skills after remediation

"Magic" Magnetic Wand

During the game, the students listen and respond to the phonological tasks. They earn chips as the game progresses. Then, the fun continues when the chips "fly up to the magic wand" at the end of the game!

Who is this phonological awareness game helpful for?

Phonological Awareness Chipper Chat® is designed to improve language skills in students in grades pre-kindergarten and up and children ages 4 and up. Parents, educators, and Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) alike appreciate how effectively this Chipper Chat® helps children develop vital language skills while sparking their enthusiasm for learning. With its interactive and entertaining approach, this game ensures that language development becomes an enjoyable journey for young learners.

Why Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), special educators, teachers, and parents love this educational game:

• Children love using the "magic" wand to pick up their chips
• It is a quick and easy way to execute purposeful practice with varying levels of phonological awareness
• It keeps children motivated to keep working on phonological goals
• The assessment and activity lessons identify gaps in student's learning and the game is a fun, engaging way to learn critical information
• The included manual addresses multiple skills at multiple levels
• Each skill is targeted extensively and children make progress quickly
• It carries over easily for parents to use with their children at home
• It is great for children with dyslexia

Phonological Awareness Chipper Chat® includes:

• A total of 60 individual game boards (5 boards for each of the 12 phonological skills, 11" x 10")
• 112-page lesson book with target items and reproducible masters for each game
• "Quick Assessments" for each phonological skill area
• Magnetic wand
• 100 magnetic chips
• Record sheet to track student progress
• Large die
• Sturdy box