Games might be one of the most underused instructional tools in education. Many types of games can help teachers keep new terms in the forefront of students' thinking and allow students to reexamine their understanding of terms. It is important to set aside blocks of time each week to play games in order to energize students and guide them in the review and use of important terms.
Suggestions for activities:
- Vocabulary Charades
- Talk a Mile a Minute
- Puzzle Stories (Carleton & Marzano, 2010)
- Split the class into small groups (3-5 students with mixed ability levels).
- Provide a list of vocabulary terms to each group or display the terms on a whiteboard in the classroom.
- Give each group a puzzle and have the students in each group put the puzzle together.
- Each group of students will then write a story about the scene or object depicted in the puzzle using their vocabulary word list.
- Have a representative from each group read the story aloud to the class.
- Vocabulary Twister
- Vo-BACK-ulary
- Vocabulary BINGO
- PowerPoint Review Games:
- SMART Board Review Games
Feel free to comment at the bottom of this wiki page and share your other vocabulary game ideas or link to a helpful website.
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