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.
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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).
Key benefits
- Builds early English vocabulary and word knowledge.
- Supports correct pronunciation through modelling and repetition.
- Reduces language anxiety through playful learning.
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