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Crazy Cards!

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  • Need some help with lesson planning?

  • Words organized by spelling pattern?

  • Structured Literacy games for centers?

  • Let Crazy Cards reduce your workload!

CLICK HERE to Download:

FOUR easy Steps for using Crazy Cards

as part of your systematic & explicit phonics.

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There are 25 decks organized from simple to complex!
SET 1: 5 Decks of Crazy Shorts for Starters (cvc, digraphs, floss, -ck, -ng/-nk)
SET 2: 5 Decks of Crazy Shorts with Blends ("L" Blends, "R" Blends, "S" Blends, End Blends)
SET 3: 5 Decks of the ORIGINAL Crazy Shorts (some multisyllable words for differentiation)
SET 4: 5 Decks of the ORIGINAL Crazy Longs (long vowels)
SET 5: 5 Decks of the Original Crazy Mores (other vowel teams - diphthongs, bossy r's, etc.)                  

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Crazy Shorts FOR STARTERS phonics card games help children recognize and understand the BASIC short vowel spelling patterns (cvc, floss, -ck, digraphs, -ng/-nk) by playing a card game similar to Crazy 8s, only with words!

1) Read the SPLASH sound;

2) Read the WORD.

3) Make up a CRAZY Sentence!

This gets them belly-laughing & having fun! 

Each deck contains 63 cards (52 word cards, 7 wild cards, and 4 miss your turn cards).

$29.99US (5 decks)

Crazy Shorts WITH BLENDS phonics card games help children recognize and understand short vowel spelling patterns that contain INITIAL and END Blends.

Each deck contains 63 cards (52 word cards, 7 wild cards, and 4 miss your turn cards).

$29.99US (5 decks)

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The Original Crazy Shorts phonics card games help children recognize and understand short vowels by playing a card game similar to Crazy 8s, only with words! They sound out a word, and then make up a CRAZY sentence using that word. This gets them belly-laughing and having fun! 

Each deck contains 63 cards (52 word cards, 7 wild cards, and 4 miss your turn cards).

$29.99US (5 decks)

The Original Crazy Longs phonics card games help children recognize and understand long vowels in the same way - by playing a fun card game that they WANT to play. Teach your child to read by playing fun card games!

Each deck contains 63 cards (52 word cards, 7 wild cards, and 4 miss your turn cards).

$29.99US (5 decks)

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The Original Crazy Mores phonics card games go even further by teaching all of the other spelling patterns in English. Same game - same fun!  Educational games for kids that they can play with their siblings, friends, or peers at school!

Crazy Mores contains ways to spell the sound /oo/, /er/, and other spelling patterns. Each deck contains 63 cards (52 word cards, 7 wild cards, and 4 miss your turn cards).

$29.99US (5 decks)

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Complete Set of ORIGINAL Crazy Cards!

  • Crazy Shorts​

  • Crazy Longs

  • Crazy Mores

$79.99US (15 decks - does not include Starters or Blends games)

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Beginner Set: Crazy Shorts for Starters
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Set 2: Crazy Shorts with Blends
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Set 3: The Original Crazy Shorts - includes multisyllable words
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Set 4: The Original Crazy Longs
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Set 5: The Original Crazy Mores
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Download, PRINT, CUT, & PLAY!

Reg. $9.99US/set of 5 decks

SALE: $7.99US/set of 5 decks

(Each deck is 7 pages double-sided - so 14 colour pages to print, but if you just print on one side, it would be 7 pages per deck)

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Founder of Sound Readers Crazy Cards, Martha Kovack, MEd,. talking about the card games and their instructional power with Dr. Marnie Ginsberg, founder of Reading Simplified!

(September 2020)

Part 1

Part 2

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