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 chips onto corresponding squares on the game board grid. If you are familiar with the game „sequence“, you are already halfway there.

Generally, the goal is to form straight lines of four or more chips in a row, and to prevent your opponents from doing likewise.

Here is a link to a printable game board game. More comprehensive, illustrated rules are included on the PDF. 

We tried several different layouts. Any is fine really, but if you want to see which board arrangement you like best, more are available by clicking here.

The AGO Halloween Boardgame is a product that works under similar principles that we had printed professionally. Check out our video on how to play that, here:

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.

One player takes the role of leader. They select a card on the table, and read it out, line by line (or even slowly selecting words to read one by one, in any order). The do not touch the card, or indicate its location. The other players then race to locate this card. The first player to touch it, wins the card, adding it to their score pile.

Players only get one chance to guess the card. The first player to guess right takes the role of leader, calling out the next card. If all players guess wrong (which shouldn’t really happen), the leader wins the card and gets to call another.
Most cards at the end, wins.

(Thanks to Chris Sharp for his suggestions regarding this game)