How to play the Snap game

Snap is a useful literacy game for

• practicing visual discrimination skills, and
• reinforcing knowledge.

Here are the materials needed to play Snap:

• Two identical sets of cards with

  • words
  • syllables, or
  • letters on them.

Here are some guidelines to follow when you play Snap:

• Use as many cards as you like.
• Make sure each card has a matching one.
• The player who has all the cards at the end is the winner.

1. Deal out an equal number of cards to each player.
2. Each player puts their stack of cards face down in front of them.
3. Players all turn one card face up and place it next to their face down stack.
4. They look at everyone's card to see if any matching cards have been turned up.

   Tip:	If yes, someone says “Snap.” The first person to say “Snap” gets all the cards in the face-up stacks that match each other. Play then continues from Step 3. If no, play continue from Step 3.

5. If a player gets to the end of the face-down stack before the end of the game, he or she turns the face up stack over and continues.

• Task module: How to play the Snap game
• In task module: Playing literacy games
• In task module: Developing literacy skills, by Martha A. Lane (contributor), Delle P. Matthews (contributor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), Anne Klaassens (editor), and Trudy K. Stewart (editor, contributor)
• In task module: Teaching people to read and write, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 16 March 1999

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