Kids Learning Arcade
Learning games for 6 year olds
Six is first grade age for most children. The age 6 cards practice long vowels, the big step after short words, and the Dolch first grade sight words.
The age 6 cards: Long vowels
The age 6 deck has 100 cards. Long vowels come in two kinds here: the silent e at the end (cake, kite, bone, cube) and two vowels together (tree, rain, boat, moon). Then 38 sight words from the Dolch first grade list.
- a_e (8)cake, snake, grapes, skate, plane ...
- i_e (11)kite, bike, dice, rice, slide ...
- o_e, u_e (12)rose, cone, bone, nose, globe ...
- ee, ea (11)tree, feet, seal, leaf, beach ...
- ai, oa, ow (13)rain, snail, train, mail, paint ...
- oo (7)moon, spoon, broom, boot, food ...
- Sight words (38)after, again, an, any, as ...
Pick how hard: Easy gives the letters in order and shows faint letters in the tray. Mix mixes the letters up. Tricky hides the word and adds two extra letters, so your child sounds it out from the picture.
Playing together at 6
- Ask what the e at the end of cake does. It makes the a say its name.
- Compare pairs out loud: cap and cape, kit and kite.
- Mix and Tricky suit most 6 year olds. Tricky asks them to sound the word out with no word shown.
- Read the sight words in a sentence together after the round.
Other ages
Questions parents ask
What are long vowels?
A long vowel says its own name, like the a in cake or the o in boat. Children learn them through the silent e (cake, kite) and vowel teams like ee, ai and oa (tree, rain, boat).
Which sight words are for first grade?
The Dolch first grade list has 41 words, like after, could, once and were. The game has 38 of them at age 6; stop and think are in the age 4 and 5 decks, and live is not in the game yet.
Is it free?
Yes. There is no sign-in, nothing to download and nothing to buy inside the games. It runs in the web browser on phones, tablets and computers.