Category — By Skill Level

A great game to work on phonemic awareness with your younger students while reviewing vocabulary and student names.

Skill Level: Beginning students.

Materials: None.

Instructions:
Students sit in a circle with the teacher. The teacher uses whatever vocabulary has been reviewed in class to describe a student using the following script:
“I’m thinking of a student who is (wearing red/tall/has black hair) and whose name is…”
Rather than saying the student’s name the teacher claps the syllables of the name.
Students guess which student was described by the teacher.

Keep class interesting by playing this game during your lecture or review time!

Skill Level: All Skill Levels.

Materials: A-10 and two face cards from deck of cards.

Instruction:
Class is divided into teams. To play the game, student is allowed to choose a card at random from the deck. If it is a number card (A-10), student’s team receives that many points. (To make the game more interesting I multiply each card’s value by ten. e.g. Ace=10 points, 2=20 pts, and so on.) [Read more →]

A fun drawing game that rewards students’ ability to answer questions correctly by letting them draw the missing body parts on their team’s Buddy.

Skill Level:
Beginning, Intermediate.

Materials:
Die, blackboard.

Instructions:
Similar in pace and game design to Master Builder. Students roll a die to see what body part they get to add to an incomplete person drawn on the board.
Divide the class into teams and for each team draw a blank face and limbless torso on the board. (To give the students more chances to draw I usually draw more than one Buddy for each team.)
Tell the students that today they will have the opportunity to make a Buddy to keep them company for the rest of class. [Read more →]

Reward your students for answering questions by letting them play a fast-paced house building game!

Skill Level:
Beginning, Intermediate

Materials Needed:
Die, blackboard.

Instructions:
Divide class into teams and draw an example five-sided house on the board: