I'm sharing our family's favorite reading and language arts games. Playing with language is a huge part of our homeschool routine! These are games that are not only fun, but also boost those all-important literacy, oral language, and written language skills! Reading and Language Arts Games for Your Homeschool Reading and Language Arts Games for Little Kids The following games are great for pre. Categories: Any Language, Beginner, Easy, Family, For Children, Language Card Games Description In a world infiltrated and dominated by those of the Aether, languages are under attack and the human population has been reduced to constant warfare in order to protect their languages. Get students out of their seats with these kinesthetic/tactile learning games that reinforce ELA concepts taught in the classroom! 1. Hot WadPractice vocabulary with a twist on hot potato! On scraps of paper write down different objectives for kids to conquer! Then, wad up the scraps to make a ball. Have students sit in a circle and turn some music on. Students pass the ball clockwise until the music stops. The one holding the ball has to unwrap a piece of the scrap paper from the ball. The teacher gives the child a word and the player answers. For example, what part of speech is it?! If the player answers correctly he stays in the game. For younger students, you can write their sight words on the scrap paper. Students have to say the word they unwrap! Note: This game could also be used to practice simple multiplication facts. Write down equations on scrap paper. Students figure out the product to stay in the game! 2. Word WheelGet kids interacting and improving their language skills with this fun game! For the activity, simply toss vocabulary words in a lunch bag. Students flick the game spinner, then pull out a word. Once they have their word, the fun begins! Students act, draw, rhyme, or define their word. They might also have to put it in a sentence, name what part of speech it is, or give a synonym or antonym for it. It’s a game of chance! Click here to save spinner and a recording sheet to your desktop and print. 3. Sentence Hunt (4 Types)Students roll the sentence die and try to find the type of sentence it lands on! They can look through a book, magazine, newspaper – whatever they would like! 4. Time Warp: Verb TensesLay out the time warp mats, give students a sentence, and have them run to the correct verb tense mat! Once on the mat, they identify the verb within the sentence. 5. Build a Story: Collaboration GameGet students out of their seats and inspired to write with a fun socialization game! Scatter random nouns, verbs, and adjectives around the room. Students have to hunt for one of each. If you are doing the activity with younger students, you can color coordinate the parts of speech. For example, nouns on blue paper, adjectives on red, and verbs on yellow. For older students, use a single color to make the scavenger hunt more of a challenge! Once they’ve found each part of speech, tell kids that they can trade with their peers if they’d like to. Then, have them find a partner and collaborate on a story using their parts of speech. Tell students if they have a noun that is a person, try to find a partner who has a noun that represents a place. When everyone has a partner, students start collaborating on a unique story that uses both of their nouns, verbs, and adjectives. They must have a main character, setting, plot, and create a structure for their story. What happened first, next, last? What is the main event? Optional: After they organize their story, have them publish it online (ex: Smories, Little Bird Tales, click here for a full list of free web 2.0 publishing tools). For more hands-on fun games and projects, check out Erin’s blog E is for Explore! A forum member had a question about using sign games to teach sign language to hearing children, and forum members responded, as follows:
'You know the old telephone game? Where you whispered something in the next person's ear and see how the message has changed by the end? That's fun to play only you sign it to the next person in line. ' Everyone gets given an animal in sign language. You go round the circle to know who has what animal and the sign for that animal. Person 1 Dog Person 2 cat person 3 frog person 4 rabbit and so on. Person 1 starts by doing another person's sign, that person replies with someone else's sign. Not only do you have to look for your sign but also remember who is left in the game and what animal they are. The other game is like Chinese whispers. Everyone is facing the back wall in a line. The first person is told a little sentence in sign. They have to tap the person on the shoulder and repeat it to them and so on. Hoping the sentence reaches the back person correctly.' The standing person signs one of the three fruits and each person in the chairs with that fruit name assigned to them must stand and try to get to another of the now-vacant chairs. The standing person tries to steal a chair also. Occasionally, the new standing person might sign 'fruit' and tumble his hands for 'mix up' and then everyone must stand and try to get to an empty chair. If more than 20 people are playing, it is probably better to have two smaller circles. Another game is called 'Who has...?' The setup is the same as the previous game, but the standing person signs 'Who has______________ ?' filling in the blank with signs for things like 'blue pants' or 'brown hair' or 'necklace' etc. This can be extended to 'Who lives ____________ ?' with names of surrounding towns fingerspelled. Or make up your own introduction question depending on the signing ability of the players. If someone notices that a seated player didn't move that should have, that person goes to the center as the standing person who signs a question.' Also, use two sets of 'Tinker Toys' Have one person build a shape with various parts behind a screen (a folder, standing open can work). Then using signs only--that person must describe one step at a time what they built and the other person must duplicate the shape. This is great for beginners since the pieces are different colors and it helps teach how to use descriptors such as small, large, long, short, thin, fat, round etc. A whole set of toys can be split up so a person only gets a few pieces as long as the other person has the same pieces available. Then they can work in pairs or have one person describe what they built to a group of people who work together to try and build it.' I use it both at home and as a reference at my office (a large pediatric office).' Everyone is in a circle, one person starts by pretending they have a piece of clay. They then mold it into any tangible object, using as much description and detail as possible. They can also show what it is used for by pantomiming. When everyone understands the object being described, the describer passes the imaginary clay in the form of the described object to anyone they choose. (ex. a hat would go on someone's head, roller skate pushed across the floor). The next person then makes another object with the imaginary clay. Keep going until everyone in the circle has had a turn. You might want to make a list of things to describe at the beginning, and have the kids draw them out of a bag, so the game can get going quickly. You could add by showing the kids the sign for each object after they understand it being described.' As time progresses and ASL skills increase with everyday usage in directions and conversations, we often divide in teams A and B. The ground rules are always the same! Ground rules are always reviewed and understood by everyone and NEVER CHANGED ONCE THE GAME BEGINS!!!!!Ground rules are: 1) if another K gives the answer to a fellow team-mate, then the point goes to the other team. 2) if the team mate does not know the answer, it is the opposite team's chance to answer the question. 3)if writing the answer is involved if the written letter/number is backward/mirror-imaged, the try goes to the other team. Using these ground rules, then I can 'flip a coin' or let one from each team pick a letter/number closest to one that I have to see which team goes first. Things get pretty intense when phrases/short sentences (silly or normal) are used for interpretations for points. Keep the games short, concise, and varied with vocabulary. This keeps attention spans focused on vocabulary reviews. Sometimes, I will have the Ks get a piece of blank paper, then I will sign a picture that I want them to draw, ie: 1 blue house, 2 green turtles, and 5 yellow butterflies on a brown table.What is the most fun is having family involvement in learning ASL, also. Please share some ideas that you have for games, also.' ![]() The next person says the same thing, signing the object the 1st person said and then signing another object. It goes on around with everyone signing the objects in order then adding their own. Of course, the farther it goes around, the more you have to remember, so if you miss - you're out! End by the first person having to sign the whole circle. This can be adapted to several categories: 'I went to the zoo...' - animals, 'I saw a rainbow....' colors, ' I went to the grocery store....' food, etc. Another one - everyone is in a circle. One person starts by fingerspelling a word. The next person must fingerspell a word that begins with the last letter of the first person's word. The next person fs a word that begins with the last letter of the 2nd person's word. (ex: cat, town, neck, keep, pie...) No word can be used twice and if you're too slow - You're Out!' In her seminars, she uses a board game that is great fun. She designed it herself. You may write her at [email protected]' PAPER WORD SPELLING BEE Make several copies of the fingerspelling alphabet. Cut the letters apart. Put the letters together to form words on index cards. Give out to two teams. Have the first person fingerspell the word and the first one to say the word wins a point. Small words can be used such as key, boy, bee, vine, girl, tree. MATCH-UP SIGNS Purchase Deaf Children's Playing Cards. The cards are in pairs with the same sign on two cards. Distribute cards among your players. Have the players do the sign without speaking. Those doing the same sign must find their match. BIRTHDAY BUDDIES: Have all the players use their ingenuity. Ask players not to talk but in the same way find other people who are born in the same month. CHARADES: Play a game of charades by miming only. No talking. The subjects may be machines such as vacuum cleaner, washing machine, hedge trimmer, or household chores such as using a broom, drying dishes, washing windows or animals using mime or the signs. Hope you have fun with these. Also there is the game of 'Horse' It is difficult to explain, but I will try. The players form a circle with one person in the middle. The person points to someone on the edge of the circle, the two players on either side of the pointed one make horse ears on that person with their fist below the top hand that forms ears. Sometimes the person on the side is right-handed and has to do it left handed and can't do it well. I think the person in the center counts to 3 or so, and if they haven't made horse ears by then, then that person goes in the middle. Lots of laughter accompanies this fun game. It is played much among the deaf in my area of Ohio' Things you need: people,markers, and paper So here how you play: First tell everyone to sit in a circle. You pick someone to be it. The person that is it will pick a letter and do the sign language. The person that writes down the letter first and puts the paper up in the air and is it and you start from the top. Once you start getting the hang of it you can go to words.' Make cards or buy cards with the words on them that you want them to learn then play go fish. Another fun game to teach them visualization is call snapshot. You have them tell a story such as a fairy tale or nursery rhyme by using their bodies. No signing or talking and no movement. It's a lot of fun! Another game: Stand in a circle. Have one person either fingerspell their name or use their name sign and then pick an animal that starts with the first letter of their name. The person the right then fingerspells that person's name (or sign their name sign) then the animal then his/her own name and animal and so on. So if you're at the end of the line you will have to have a very good memory! But it's a lot of fun!!!' And if the child matches up the sign, the child then has to tell what that sign means. That way the child learns to identify different signs and then applies the knowledge by describing what each sign means.' These two people sign what is on the card - whoever is the quickest to make the correct sign goes clockwise to stand behind the next person. The other person sits in that chair. (if the seated person loses he or she just remains seated there and the standing person goes on to stand behind the next player). We only had 6 in our group so the first person to make it all around the circle won. Maybe bigger classes would like to divide into groups of 6 or 8 or maybe the first person to win so many in a row could be the winner. (Of course, EVERYONE wins because you have the opportunity to review and it is a fun game!!!!!)'
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