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Phonics card games, Q&A games for learning English, French, Japanese, German and Spanish, and more!

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Our supplementary apps add voices, sound effects, accents and context to the AGO card games!

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There are lots of ways to play and use AGO card games. Here you’ll find game ideas, videos, and downloadable content.

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AGO games are intuitive, fun to play, and packed with useful and practical content!

Our card games are designed primarily with the needs of the EFL and ESL* students in mind. 

By popular request, there are now versions of AGO Q&A card games in French, Japanese, Spanish and German languages, too! These games can even be played by absolute beginners (but in these cases you’ll probably be wanting to download and print a translation sheet to refer to the first few times you play).


For native speakers of English, products such as the AGO Phonics card game series and AGO Link can also function as a useful and fun tool for children at the ’emergent reader’ level. These card games provides a fun way for players to explore the sounds and letter patterns that make up the written English language!!!

*  students of English as a foreign or second language.

AGO Halloween Materials

A few years back we published these supplementary classroom printables. They are still available on our old site (agocardgames.com) – but for those looking for a last minute Halloween Activity, …

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AGO Phonics Downloadable Game Boards.

Free, printable board games are available for download. There are several board layouts available. These are turn based strategy games, where players play cards from their hand, and put game …

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Speed Slap (Simple AGO Phonics game idea)

This game is similar to “karuta” (an educational way of using cards popular in Japan).In this game, spread numbered AGO cards (i.e. the phonics cards) face up on a table. …

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Memory Match (Game play method for AGO Phonics)

With two copies of an AGO phonics deck, you can play memory match games. I.e. games where players attempt to find matching pairs of cards by turning over face down …

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Time Bomb (A beat the clock hangman game play method for AGO Phonics cards)

This game is basically beat the clock hangman. Played with AGO Phonics cards, it practices scanning and decoding skills.  Setup:Mix some phonic cards face up on a desk (the more …

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Treasure Hunting (simple game play method for AGO Phonics and QnA games)

This game is easier and simpler than Last Card, but retains much of the excitement, and has the advantage of the game length being predictable. Thus these rules are better …

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Three Simple AGO Phonics Game Play Methods: (find the phoneme, rock scissors paper, high card wins!)

AGO Phonics (especially Aqua level 1) works great with children in their first months of learning English, or kindergarten aged native English speaking kids just beginning to learn how to …

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About AGO Phonics (and how the games work)

Over four decks, AGO Phonics cards introduce over 140 different English phoneme patterns and over 400 (mostly) useful picture words. AGO Phonics cards work best as part of a broader …

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AGO Last Card Strategy Tips

Whilst AGO Last Card (or other ways to use AGO cards) are not really meant to be overly competitive, it can be more enjoyable when players know what they’re doing …

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Top Tips For Better Educational Results With AGO Cards

Aim to play using only English* !  An easy way to implement this is by adding a ‘pick up penalty’ for non English chatter. It can work like magic when …

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