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82 free skill games, in teaching order

Every skill in the Ladderbug ladder has its own page: a game you can play immediately, the complete word or fact list, three ways to teach it away from a screen, and where it sits in the sequence.

Phonics

49 rungs, letter sounds to suffixes. A complete science-of-reading scope and sequence.

Math

33 rungs, subitizing to multiplying fractions, weighted to the major work of each grade.

Sight words

All five Dolch lists, free to print, taught as heart words rather than shapes.

Popular starting points

Blend it: a-wordsRF.K.2c Vowel switch: pat / pit / potRF.K.2d sh and chRF.1.3a Magic e: a_eRF.1.3c Vowel team: ai and ayRF.2.3b Endings: -s -es -ed -ingRF.3.3d See it without counting: 1-5K.CC.B.4 Number bonds to 10K.OA.A.3 Making ten1.OA.C.6 Equal groups and arrays3.OA.A.1 Unit fractions on a number line3.NF.A.2 Big multiplication with the area model4.NBT.B.5