Space Mission: Nonsense Words

Early learners will love helping the planet Phoneme while boosting phonics skills too! Designed to prepare children for the National Curriculum year 1 Phonics Screening Check this challenge game helps children recognise nonsense words.

• Children fly their saucer and use the Super Suction feature to collect the astronaut and alien cards
• Pronounce the words on the back of the cards correctly in order to save them
• Astronaut cards show real words and Alien cards show nonsense words (words that are made up but phonetically plausible)
• Rescue the most to win!
• Space Mission: Nonsense Words includes:
• Four spaceships
• 110 game cards
• Activity guide
• Features multilingual packaging

What are nonsense words?

• Strings of letters that follow phonics rules taught in class, but don't mean anything
• Children need to read them with the correct sounds to show that they understand the phonics rules behind them

How to play

• The youngest player goes first and uses their spaceship to collect a card of their choice, pressing it down onto the card to seal the suction base
• Keeping the spaceship in place, the player turns it over to reveal a word on the reverse of the card
• If pronounced correctly, they get to keep it. If incorrect, the card gets placed back in play
• Play continues to the left
• The first player to collect three astronauts and three aliens wins!