Product Review: Zingo! Sight Words Game (Age PreK+)
Ignite Your Mind!
I have been seeing quite a bit of sliding words games for children to help them read and acquire language and I have to say I really like that. From what I have read, tools like Zingo have been a great addition to a children’s comprehension in reading and apprehension of sight words and Brooke seems to have such fun with the sliding doors. Zingo is a classic Bingo-style game where kids have the chance to learn up to 75 sight words while playing a brilliant and fun card game to give their reading ability a positive boost. While you can play with another child (or up to six) or an adult, Zingo is also a game you can play independently which I really love, too. Sight words can be a source of frustration for new readers who are not able to sound out the words and the Zingo! Sight Words game does a great job in word recognition and making the process of learning sight words fun. I can also see where reluctant readers have the option to practice and learn on their own and can move up to a group setting at a later time. The Zingo! Sight Words game includes 72 Zingo! sight words tiles, six double-sided Zingo! cards, Zingo! Zinger card dispenser, instructions, and a learning guide. One awesome thing about the Zingo! game is that it offers visual cues to help the player recognize words. Visual memory is often the key to learning sight words for children which is usually where that source of frustration comes in among early readers. Learning sight words is considered one of the keys of language fluency and I think the Zingo! word game does an excellent job of exposing and unlocking the secret of the English language to new and emergent readers. Well done, Think Fun!
About Think Fun: Think Fun’s mission is to Ignite Your Mind! Think Fun was founded in 1985 by Pennsylvania husband and wife team, Bill Ritchie and Andrea Barthello, under the original company name of Binary Arts. They designed the company from the very noble mission of creating simple toys for children from brilliant mathematicians, engineers and inventors which can be seen from their very first toy creation of the Hexadecimal Puzzle. Check out their full line of products here and I hope to see some additional Early Learning Games from them in the near future!
Zingo! Sight Words Game (Age PreK+)
List Price: $ 19.09 (Currently $18.07 through Amazon.com)
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