The Fidget Game Learn to Read in Weeks Master 220 High-Frequency Dolch Sight Words Curriculum-Appropriate for Pre-K to Grade 3 - Popping Mats & Dice

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Material Cardboard
Educational objective Focus, Sensory
Age range (description) Kid
Brand The Fidget Game
Shape Square
Item dimensions L x W x H 16 x 16 x 0.1 Centimetres
UPC 727785205610

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  • LEARN TO READ IN WEEKS – Created by a Kindergarten teacher devoted to exploring fun ways to teach reading to young kids, The Fidget Game aims to teach curriculum-appropriate Dolch words or sight words from Pre-K to Grade 3 kids. This game can help your child recognize, read, pronounce, spell, and master these high-frequency words from the Dolch list.
  • PACKET OF CARDS FOR EACH GRADE LEVEL – The Fidget game consists of 220 service words broken down per level from Pre-K to Grade 3 following the US common core standards. These sight words comprise 50-70% of general text, therefore, mastering these words is a critical goal in education. Sight words in these packets include verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions. When mastery of these sight words is achieved, kids can focus on reading comprehension.
  • MAKES LEARNING FUN AND EXCITING – No matter how hard parents try, some kids can’t help but associate studying with boring desk work. This innovative game effectively incorporates fun with learning. Kids will find themselves eager to take their turn to read the sight words correctly for a chance to roll the dice and pop bubbles on the colorful popping mat. The Fidget Game is an interactive educational toy that can accommodate multiple players, including the parents!
  • STURDY AND DURABLE – The Fidget Game catches your child’s attention with its brightly colored flashcards that are solid and easy to handle, even for young kids. Each grade level comes with a storage box to teach your children a good habit of packing away their things to maintain a tidy space. These cute storage boxes also make it travel-friendly, so you can learn to read anywhere.
  • EDUCATIONAL GIFT IDEA – Give a child the gift of learning for any occasion with The Fidget Game. Perfect for homeschooling families or for young kids who are just starting to learn how to read. The Fidget Game offers a worthwhile activity that can effectively limit screen time.

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Cute game that the kids loved!
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Cute game that the kids loved!
Really fun game that the kids got excited about on Christmas morning! It’s almost like we tricked them it is an educational game since they were so excited by the fun colours and items the game contains.
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Reviewed in Canada on January 16, 2024
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I work with older students who are below level and struggling readers. This game is good because it is not to “babyish” and has very straight forward rules that allows for modifications and sometimes adding different rules like someone says the word for you and then you have to spell it or write it. I like that you can still make it your own.
I really like the unicorns cards and goblins or gremlins I believe, and I like that it follows current research and science behind reading, so it complements the lessons that you may be doing.

My only suggestion for the game is maybe labeling the cards differently from grades levels and instead using beginner, on your way, or even just level one, two, three. The reasoning is because you maybe using grade one and two with students who are in grades five and six which the do notice and can impact self esteem and abilities, but you could easily put tape over it too.
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Reviewed in Canada on February 18, 2024
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It’s a fun game to play with kids. They love reviewing the words while we are playing.
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Reviewed in Canada on April 22, 2024
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It's a fun, engaging game for the kids.
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Reviewed in Canada on January 22, 2024
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Lots of fun. Great hands on learning tool. The kids love playing it.
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Reviewed in Canada on June 16, 2024
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My daughter loved this game. She went through all 5 levels very quickly. I needed to find a way to make learning new words interesting to her as she loses attention and gets bored easy. She loves pop-it’s so this was great and kept her engaged the whole time. She went through all the levels up to grade 3 very quickly. I was very impressed. It also helped her gain more confidence and actually helped her to participate in a spelling bee at her school.
Reviewed in Canada on January 31, 2024
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Love this game. My son is struggling with reading and hates to practice. This game helps him want to learn. A must have for kids with ADHD struggling with reading.
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Reviewed in Canada on May 3, 2024
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Have not played it yet
Reviewed in Canada on January 21, 2024
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Our child enjoyed this game, however it could benefit from having the learning guide (at least a legend for the symbols, somewhere in the box/ instructions).
You have to go online and access the learning guide to understand what all the symbols on the cards mean, which makes it much more difficult for a quick start to diving into this game…. Had it included this, or the guide is available in paper form, I’d give it 5 stars.
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Victoria Escobar
5.0 out of 5 stars THE MOST FUN AND EFFECTIVE READING GAME FOR KIDS!!
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024
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 The Fidget Game lives up to its name – it's a fun and engaging way for young children to develop their reading skills! My little cousins, ages 5 and 7, were quickly hooked on the popping mats and dice, making learning sight words a breeze. It was so amazing to see them engaging with the game and having so much fun. My uncles were RAVING about it and went to get more games! This is also a GREAT family game for the little ones!!

As for results, my uncles let me know the kids wanted to play again and every time they played, they got extremely better. After just a week or so of playing, both of them were reading hard sentences!! It seems that by learning common sight words, they had the brainpower to focus on sounding out new words. I also read a lot about the science of reading on their website, which explained this process and was super easy to understand.

This game is a lifesaver for busy parents! It's easy to set up and play, and even comes with extra mats for anyone else to join in. The thick, sturdy box also arrived in perfect condition, nothing like the damaged pictures shown. The instructions were very detailed but the QR code led to a more comprehensive explanation (which was awesome).

Overall, The Fidget Game is a fantastic game for helping young children learn to read. It's engaging, effective, and gets kids excited about reading. I highly recommend it!!!
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Victoria Escobar
5.0 out of 5 stars THE MOST FUN AND EFFECTIVE READING GAME FOR KIDS!!
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024
The Fidget Game lives up to its name – it's a fun and engaging way for young children to develop their reading skills! My little cousins, ages 5 and 7, were quickly hooked on the popping mats and dice, making learning sight words a breeze. It was so amazing to see them engaging with the game and having so much fun. My uncles were RAVING about it and went to get more games! This is also a GREAT family game for the little ones!!

As for results, my uncles let me know the kids wanted to play again and every time they played, they got extremely better. After just a week or so of playing, both of them were reading hard sentences!! It seems that by learning common sight words, they had the brainpower to focus on sounding out new words. I also read a lot about the science of reading on their website, which explained this process and was super easy to understand.

This game is a lifesaver for busy parents! It's easy to set up and play, and even comes with extra mats for anyone else to join in. The thick, sturdy box also arrived in perfect condition, nothing like the damaged pictures shown. The instructions were very detailed but the QR code led to a more comprehensive explanation (which was awesome).

Overall, The Fidget Game is a fantastic game for helping young children learn to read. It's engaging, effective, and gets kids excited about reading. I highly recommend it!!!
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Carmelita
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun Game
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2024
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My kids love this game! It's great for multiple ages as it comes with decks of cards for different levels. It's easy to learn how to play and most of all it's fun! Great price for a fun and educational game.
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Jalina King
5.0 out of 5 stars This game WORKS!
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2023
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I first laid the foundations of reading with my 7yo and 5yo: letter sounds, vowels and consonants, syllables, and etymology. Then, before I learned about this game, I had a "word of the day," which we would break down into syllables, and I would explain why each word was spelled the way it was. Beyond that, it was hard to motivate my 7yo to learn to read, and I wasn't quite sure what my next step was for my 5yo. Enter The Fidget Game! After one week of this game (just 4 words), they were BOTH reading sentences! The game worked exactly as described on Shark Tank: by learning common words, their brains were free to focus on sounding out new words. I would mix in simple new words with their learned sight words, so the learned words acted as breaks and a confidence boosts in between the new words. They were both so excited! Now they're reading everywhere they go, even words that are new to them. I've also started expanding the game by creating word searches and bingo cards using all the words they've mastered in the game. Once we've learned our new words for the week and are ready to incorporate them into the game, I only have to supervise a round or two of them playing to be sure they've mastered each word and aren't cheating. Then, they play independently while I tend to my other duties. Great game for a homeschooling mama who has ADHD and 5 young children! BONUS: There are extra mats for the little brothers to play with while the big brothers play.

I will say I don't understand the division of the grade levels. They don't seem to progress in difficulty from Pre-K to 3rd grade, so maybe there is another way they are organized that I am unaware of. I also don't quite agree with how some of the hearts and lightning bolts are assigned. On Shark Tank, the creator explained that the hearts are for the tricky parts that the children had to memorize and the the bolts were for words that made sense phonetically and that the children could "read in a flash." On the word "funny," for example, the "nn" are assigned a heart, but the double-n has the function of giving the "u" its short sound, so phonetically, the word does make sense. That's just one example. We just don't use that aspect. I've also skipped the unicorn cards for now because I want them to have to read a word for each of their turns. We didn't add the gremlin cards in until after we had done 8 words. For the sake of others' enjoyment of the game, I do wish the instructions that came with the game explained the game as well as the Shark Tank pitch did. The QR code on the instructions did lead to a better explanation.

So maybe half a star off for presentation, but as far as fun and effectiveness go, this game WORKS!
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CJG
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun Learning Game
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2024
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This game is a super way to make sight word learning fun. Playing this game with our 5 year old grandson was a great way to reinforce his sight word list and learn some new words too.
Jono89
4.0 out of 5 stars Great quality!
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2024
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I got this for my family (6 kids from ages 16m to 11y) for Christmas. The word cards are a bit off for the grades in my opinion, depending on what state you live in I suppose. I have a child who is just starting to read, and the PreK set of cards is what another child of mine was being introduced to in Kindergarten.

It goes up to 3rd grade. My oldest 2 children are 5th grade and 3rd grade. They both needed significantly harder words.

I'd say the appropriate grade level, if you're going by what a child should know, is about 1st and 2nd.

The pop its themselves are very high quality. The exact same color, and popping quality.

Overall, a great addition to a homeschooling family, elementary school classroom, or for struggling readers. Would be very easy to adapt for math and other things that you can use flash cards with.
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