Games

Here you will find links to games and activities available online and in our school.

[|Academic Word Development] These words were brought to life at a workshop I attended this summer. Gerry Luton created drop down word banks for students to select the appropriate word that would fit in each sentence. Well worth the time to check out and have students practice.

[|SAT/GRE Vocabulary Games] This link will take you to games to practice words found on the SAT and GRE exams.

[|More Vocabulary Games] From root words to test prep, there are games available under the various areas to have students practice their vocabulary development skills.

[|German Teacher Created English Vocabulary Exercises] So you didn't think there was a difference between American English and British English? Check them out at this site.

[|Grammar Exercises] Students can practice in various areas of grammar from pronoun useage to fragmented sentences. There are worksheets available for students to record their responses.

[|German Teacher Created English Grammar Exercises] - Okay, so the site is in German, but the exercises are for assisting students with their knowledge of English. From Adjectives to Tenses.

[|Leveled Grammar Exercises] Check out the stars for the difficulty level - then select your game.

[|Grammar Gorilla] Here are two games: one beginner and one advanced. These will assess your understanding of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

[|Mad Libs] Who can forget the hilarious fun that you had creating stories using nouns, verbs, and adjectives?!

[|Parts of Speech Alien Game] Blast your way in a video game format through the parts of speech - Alien style.

[|Reading Skills Review] Use this site to practice your reading comprehension skills.

[|Free Rice] Not only will you improve your vocabulary (among other skills that can be practiced), but when the games here are played you will help feed people with donated grains of rice.

This game is a lot of fun! Up to 8 students can play - shuffle and deal 7 cards. The one who can make the word worth the most points wins the round, or you can keep track of the score. We just keep adding cards to our hand to make sure we have 7 each hand and then shuffle at the end of the deck again. One set is available in B229 (Mrs. LaVoie)

Another fun game. Up to 5 students can play this game at once. A set number of tiles are distributed and students attempt to use all their tiles up in a scrabble-like format. When students are out of tiles, they check each others spelling and word useage to see if the one who "won" by using all their tiles really did or was a little too creative.

This is by far one of my favorite games. You can have students play on teams or in small groups. The more who play, the less green apple cards you need to achieve in order to win. One person judges the red apple cards to see which entry is either best suited or funniest. Since students need to read all the cards to see what might work best, their vocabulary only increases with each game. One game is available in B229 (Mrs. LaVoie). I also have the junior version in my closet as well.

A classic game of letter manipulation to create words and the high score wins! One game is available in B229 (LaVoie)
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Another classic and another of my favorites. Create as many words as possible during the egg timer sand descent. Letters must touch and can not be used more than one time. Various points are received for length of word, but if an opponent has the same word BOTH players cross out the word. One game available in B229 (LaVoie).