Name Games: Who Took the Cookie?

About this teaching resource

Teaching letter names through experiences that involve using children's names 'is one of the most powerful means of teaching children about letters'. Snowball, D. and Bolton, F. Spelling K-8 Planning and Teaching

Who Took the Cookie?: A game using the rhyme, Who Took the Cookie?
Put the names of the children in your class on paper cookies, fill the cookie jar and have fun discovering who took the cookie!

Includes:
• Mini lesson ideas for Shared & Independent Reading
• How to Play
• Copies for Shared & Independent reading
• Blank cookie cards

The Teachific Name Game series provides a range of activities that can form part of a regular weekly/daily routine, and some activities that are useful to repeat on a more irregular basis throughout the year.

Australian curriculum alignment

Year K  

Year 1