6 activities

Word & Vocabulary Games

Vocabulary, spelling, and language-arts review games that don’t feel like another worksheet.

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Kids race to name a word in a category for as many letters of the alphabet as they can before time runs out.

A quick-fire naming game — call a category, and kids take turns naming something in it before a countdown runs out.

Each new word has to start with the last letter of the word before it — a fast circle game that builds vocabulary on the fly.

One student (or the teacher) thinks of a vocabulary word; the class asks yes/no questions to figure out what it is.

Teams act out vocabulary words without speaking while their team races to guess before the timer runs out.

Teams race to physically rebuild a scrambled sentence, one word-card at a time, testing grammar and sentence-structure sense.