I recently found this free activity on Teachers Pay Teachers after a colleague asked me if I could work with some of our struggling readers on syllable segmentation. While that is its intent, I like it because I have so many students that need to work on their speech articulation in multisyllabic words. And of course, the winter vocabulary is a bonus. You use these cards in the same manner that you play the card game "War". You deal out all the cards into facedown piles. Two or three students then flip over their top card from their individual piles at the same time. Students take turns producing the pictured word and determining the number of syllables their word has. Whichever student's word has the most syllables takes all the cards. If two students have the same number of syllables then they go to battle. They line up three more cards face down on the table and then flip over the fourth one. They again say the pictured word and identify the number of syllables. Whoever has the highest number of syllables takes all the cards involved. I printed two sets so that I can use it in slightly larger groups and so that we can also use these same cards to play "Go Fish." My rules...when you get a match in "Go Fish" you have to use the word in your own meaningful sentence.
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