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Materials: Paper, pen, brain.
Directions: This game is adapted
from "Scattergories." First,
separate students into teams of 2 or 3 or 4 students. Write 5 or
10 categories on the board (or you can use the printable
category cards available below). Categories can be English-related (like Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Plural
Nouns, Countable Nouns, etc.) or just fun categories or
categories that reinforce recent learned vocabulary (like
Something you can eat, Something destructive, Something
hollow, Places, Something heavy, etc).
Choose one
letter from the alphabet, and then give the teams a set amount of time
(usually 2 or 3 minutes) to come up with a word for each category that
begins with the specified letter. If the letter is "G," for example,
answers might look like this:
Nouns: ghost
In the
classroom: Gary
Something
you can eat: grain
Animals:
giraffe
Adjectives:
good
Each
syllable = 1 point: gorilla (3 points)
After the
time is up, ask each team for their answers for each category. Good
answers result in one point. However, if two teams come up with the
same answer for a certain category, neither team gets a point. This
encourages creativity.
Repeat as
many times as you want, using different letters of the alphabet. The
team with the most points wins - sometimes I give them prizes; usually
they don't really care because they like playing the game itself.
You'll be
amazed with what your students are able to come up with. (Last week, for
the category "Something that can burn," one of my students came up with
"Germany!") Also, it's a good way reinforce new vocabulary words (if you
teach the word "hollow," then you can add, "things that are hollow" as a
category!).
Here are
some sample Category cards that you can print and use:
Category Cards
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Category Cards
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Category Cards
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Category Cards
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