Vocabulary Games

Little Blue Men from Outer Space

This game lets students learn new prefixes and suffixes.

Little Blue Men from outer space are coming to earth and they are trying to learn our language. They already know some prefixes and suffixes and have sent out scouts to find root words.

Students will need to match prefixes to a root word to make a longer word. Also provided in this download are 2 different recording sheets so students can keep tract of the words they've created and you can assess their learning.

Greek and Latin Roots - Go Fish

Greek and Latin Roots are everywhere in the English language. As students move into the upper grades they come across more and more academic words that are unfamiliar to them. Knowing Greek and Latin roots will help them to know the meaning behind these words.

I've put together a fun game that students can play to become more familiar with these roots. Greek and Latin Roots Go Fish. The cards are separated into two decks a Greek deck and a Latin Deck. Each deck also comes with a reference sheet that students can use when playing the game. You can see an example of the sheet to the left.

What word am I?

In this vocabulary game students have get up and actively search to figure out what vocabulary word is on their head.

Steps:

Write vocabulary words on sentence strips and staple it to make a ring.
Have your students each wear one of the words without them seeing what the word is.
They then need to go around and ask other kids for clues to help discover what vocabulary word that they have.
They can ask for antonyms, synonyms, examples and sentences to figure out the word.

This idea and photo is from Mrs. Lewis' Learning Library. You can visit her page to get a printable for this vocabulary game.

This is a fun engaging way for students to get out of their desks and practice their vocabulary words.

Preparation:

Make a list of vocabulary words you want to practice with your students. Include the definitions next to the vocabulary words.
Write vocabulary words on the whiteboard or on sentence strips.
Obtain two clean flyswatters.

How to Play the Game:

Divide the class in half
Have two students from each team stand side by side in front of the whiteboard.
After you start to read a definition to a word the first student to hit the correct vocabulary word with their flyswatter earns a point for their team.
Switch players and continue until all of the vocabulary words have been used or until a certain number of points has been reached.

Flyswatter Vocabulary 3rd Grade

This download comes with reference sheets, word cards, worksheets and graphic organizers for 8 weeks worth of games. You get 58 pages for only $3.00.

To see a preview of whats inside this e-book, I invite you to look through the pictures below.

If you teach the 4th or 5th grade check back soon as I will be creating packets for those grades as well.

If you teach a younger grade than 3rd and would like to see this game made available let me know. I'm not planning on making any for 1st, 2nd, or Kindergarten but if there is an interest I'd be happy to produce them. You can let me know by clicking on the Request a product on the top of this page.

Graphic Organizers

Word Cards

Practice Sheets

Pictionary Vocabulary Game

Have you ever thought of using Pictionary to review vocabulary words with your class. Its a great activity for your visual learners and games always make reviewing vocabulary words much more fun.

For this to be a really effective game, when you first introduce a word, have your student make a visual representation of the word. This way, when your students have to figure out a way to draw the word cluster, temperature, or prediction, they have already had practice making a drawing of the vocabulary term. They will then be able to better recognize other students attempts at representing that same vocabulary word.

The following is a set of steps that you could use to play Pictionary in your classroom.

Create a list of words that have previously been introduced and taught in the classroom. Put these words on index cards or other slips of paper.
Divide the class into two teams. You can also have the whole class guess if you don't want it to be a competition.
Make sure that you introduce the rules of Pictionary as all students might not be familiar with how to play the game.
Each student gets to draw a card, and then has 15 secs to thinks about the word before they draw it. No numbers, letters, or words can be used in the drawing.
The student starts drawing the word and then team members make guesses. After a certain amount of time, I use 2 minuets, the other team can start making guesses too.
The team who guesses correctly earns one point for their team.
Continue having the teams take turns as time allows.
If no one can guess the word after 4 minuets the student who drew the picture can explain what their word was and then their turn is over.

Vocabulary Cootie Catchers

Lately I've been seeing lots of different ways to use cootie catchers in the classroom, from math facts to reading. So I thought, why not vocabulary? Now I've created 12 different cootie catchers to help students expand their vocabulary. These Cootie catchers are designed help students practice their synonyms and antonyms.

Directions

Player 1: Choose a word and count the number of letters in the word.
Player 2: Open and close the cootie catcher that many times.
Player 1: Choose a number inside the cootie catcher.
Player 2: Lift the chosen flap and read the directions.
Player 1: Complete the action inside the flap.

Actions
S - Chose a synonym of the word
A- Choose an antonym of the word

Lose a turn - Your turn is over it's the next players turn. Say it in a Sentence - Say the synonym or antonym of the word you picked in a sentence.

Double Trouble – You must think of two synonyms or antonyms.

Battle Round – Players take turns saying synonyms or antonyms of the chosen word the player who runs out of words the soonest looses.

Free cootie catcher
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