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Getting to know Letters - Reading Game
The Getting to Know Letters Game is a playful, evidence-based reading game that builds the visual foundation children need before formal reading instruction begins. As part of Yellow Tree Reading Academy’s Visual Discrimination Game Series, this Level 5 activity focuses on helping learners visually recognise, compare, and differentiate letters that often look confusingly similar—like b/d, n/m, and p/q.
Created by Annemarie Roux, this printable domino-style game is grounded in neuroscience and the Science of Reading. By strengthening visual discrimination, learners enhance the brain’s ability to process letter shapes quickly and accurately—a vital precondition for decoding, spelling, and fluent reading.
Ideal for teachers, therapists, and homeschooling parents, this resource supports both early learners and older children with cognitive or literacy delays who need structured visual practice before phonics instruction.
- Strengthens Letter Recognition – Builds visual accuracy and attention to detail, helping learners distinguish between similar-looking letters.
- Lays the Foundation for Phonics and Decoding – Prepares the brain for sound-symbol mapping by improving visual memory and letter form differentiation.
- Boosts Focus and Cognitive Processing – Enhances concentration and pattern recognition through interactive visual matching.
- Encourages Confidence and Independence – Turns skill-building into play, reducing performance anxiety while promoting self-correction and engagement.
- Supports Diverse Learners – Beneficial for children with reading delays, dyslexia, or developmental challenges, and adaptable across classroom and home settings.
- Based on Neuroscientific Research – Aligns with visual processing development in the brain’s Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), shown to support fluent reading.
