9+-+Vocabulary+Games

Please add you vocabulary game ideas here so we can create a resource list of these important vocabulary acquisition components.

1) Spoons - Requires notecards and spoons, pencils, or popsicle sticks...any object students can grab safely. a) Students have (or make) cards with vocabulary terms relevant to your content. There should be sets of 4 synonyms (so they can get 4 of a kind.) b) Students get into groups, and given several sets of cards. c) They should also have "spoons" (or pencils, popsicle sticks, etc.), one less than the number of people in the group. So a group of 5 would get 4 spoons. d) They shuffle and deal one card to each student. The rest are stay in a pile. e) The first student draws the top card from the leftover pile, checks to see if it is a synonym for the card they were dealt. If it is, they keep it and draw again. If not, they pass it on to the next student who checks and keeps or passes the card. This should be happening on an on-going basis (i.e., cards are being passed and drawn the whole time.) f) The first student with a set of 4 grabs one of the spoons in the middle. Everyone else grabs a spoon. The one student who doesn't have one is either "out" or can earn a point. The person with the least points at the end is the winner.

2) Celebrity - Requires sticky notes. a) Students write vocab words (or names of places, dates, characters/people, etc.) on sticky notes. b) They get with a partner who also has a set of sticky notes with words on them. c) Each partner gives the other one of their sticky notes to put on their head (i.e., they exchange one sticky and put it on their forehead). The partners should NOT look at the sticky they get! d) Partners take turns asking questions of each other until they guess the word on their sticky.

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