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!

Age 3+, 4+, 5+, 6+