Zippity Zap Animals
Zippity Zap Animals is a playful, research-informed visual discrimination game designed to strengthen essential pre-reading and language skills through matching picture and word cards illustrating different animals.
The main focus is on learning to read through picture associations and developing vocabulary — two critically important pre-reading skills for eventual reading comprehension.
This game is ideally suited for young learners, struggling readers, children with learning and developmental delays, and ESL learners building English vocabulary. As a ready-to-use, low-preparation resource, it transforms foundational skill-building into joyful, confidence-boosting play.
Designed by Remedial Specialist Annemarie Roux and aligned with the Science of Reading, it provides every developing reader with the tools to become a confident, capable reader.
What's inside
This amazing Language Game consists of the following 96 cards:
32 coloured, child-friendly picture cards illustrating different animals.
32 matching picture and word cards.
32 matching word cards (words only).
Teacher instructions and ideas how to play different cards games.
Print-and-play digital PDF (instant download).
How to play
Key benefits
<ul><li>Builds early English vocabulary and word knowledge</li><li>Supports correct pronunciation through modelling and repetition</li><li>Reduces language anxiety through playful learning</li><li>Encourages peer interaction and authentic language use</li><li>Strengthens oral language foundations for reading development</li></ul>
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