For example, younger students can work on drawing waks the plural of wak , an unknown animal , when they are learning the use of the plural. Older students can focus on words that describe processes think bed-ation or storm-ation and describe why those words are silly. For example, have students rate how high on an intensity scale they see a word when introducing synonyms, and move to one or the other corner of the room to vote on the intensity with their feet.
Students might rate irritated as a 1 on a 1 to 5 intensity scale, and enraged as a 5. When their ratings differ, they can engage in discussion and debate about these ratings, and if they want, move again. Far from being wasted time, these exchanges can help motivate students to realize that playing with language can be enjoyable.
They may even start to see connections between their social play with language for example, telling jokes at home and their classroom activities. How are you already helping students in the classroom play with language? Are there opportunities to deepen or expand this play, not only in English class but across academic subjects? This is a game that the whole classroom can enjoy, or you can divide students into two or three groups.
Just like the classical and famous Jeopardy game, our vocabulary version is just as fun and challenging. To play, draw a table on the whiteboard, with different categories as rows and the points as columns.
The word cards should be taped on the board facing down. More points mean the words are harder to define. Alternatively, you can choose to make different answers for a different amount of points; one point for telling a synonym, two points for spelling a word, and three points for defining a word.
The group with the most points wins. To play, you need to divide students into small groups or play in partner-groups. Give each group a dice and a stack of word cards. Players roll the dice and draw a card. If they can correctly define the word if given a definition — to guess the word , they receive points according to the number on the rolled dice.
If the answer is wrong, the student gets zero points in that round. Vocabulary checkers is much more stimulating, challenging, and exciting. The spaces can be predetermined, with words of your choosing, or you could give students the opportunity to write the words themselves for the opponent player. The added challenge comes with the fact that a player can only move or occupy the square if they correctly define the written word in that square. Other than that, the rules are the same as a regular game of checkers.
To play, you need to divide the classroom into two groups and assign a topic. One member from each group has to come forward and describe a word or a phrase to its group. The words are given to the players by the opposite group. Whichever team guesses correctly first, gets a point. If both groups fail to guess the words in a specific time frame, neither group gets a point, and new players get new words to describe. In order to make it more educational, you can set some specific rules.
For example, players need to use a synonym, define the meaning, or use descriptive sentences. The conversation competition is probably one of the most advanced vocabulary games, which means it might be more suitable for middle schoolers or even high school students. To play, divide the students into pairs. After this, one pair comes forward to compete. Their task is to analyze the words and share a logical, meaningful story with their partner using the words from the list. Their partner not knowing the words can ask questions, or reply with their own opinions, which can help the other student use the words faster, or make it that much harder.
Once they use all of the words, they sit down and another pair comes forward. The teacher should measure the time for each conversation and the pair that uses all the words in the shortest time wins. This vocabulary game teaches children the importance of individual effort for the success of the whole group.
To play, divide the blackboard into two sections, left and right, and write vocabulary words in each section. After this, divide the class into two groups and make them form a line each group in a separate line. Upon your instruction, the first student from each group approaches the board each in their separate section and chooses a word for the student behind them to define. Once the second student defines the word correctly, the first student erases the word and goes at the back of the line, while the second student comes to the board and chooses a word for the third in line.
The first group that manages to erase all the words in their section wins. Give each student one page of a newspaper and a vocabulary word. The students should circle every word, phrase, picture, or name that relates to their vocabulary word. After five or ten minutes, each student should present their findings in front of the class — tell them the vocabulary word and explain how the marked words relate to the word.
The student that has the most valid and meaningful connections, wins the game. This is also a more advanced game suited for middle school students or older. Hopefully, you liked our list of vocabulary games for the classroom and we guarantee your students will love them.
Also, most of the games are simple variations of famous and classic party or family games, which, most likely, children will already be familiar with. Last but not least, vocabulary games are just one way to engage children in classroom activities, but if you want to find more, check out our blog and subscribe to our newsletter.
We can also cover you with educational, interactive worksheets for any subject or grade. I LOVE it! I love using games to review our vocabulary words. Games are a great way to help with vocabulary development. Here are three classroom vocabulary games you can use with any word list.
This causes kids to check out which defeats the purpose of the game which is to review the words. So Fun Vocabulary Game is the best I could come up with. For the first game, you will need suction balls like these.
Then write the synonyms and antonyms for your vocabulary words all over the board. Assign points to each word and write it near the word. After you have your teams set, a player from the first team throws the ball at the board. If they say the correct vocabulary word for the synonym or antonym they landed on, their team gets the points assigned to that word. So that all students are engaged the whole time, I have every student write their answer on a dry-erase board.
This prevents kids from getting bored and off task while they wait for others to answer. Players from each team take turns throwing the ball and answering for points. The team with the most points wins! Vocabulary Trashketball is another fun classroom vocabulary game. First, divide a piece of paper into halves or fourths. On each fourth write a definition, synonym, antonym or sentence for one of the vocabulary words and place them in a stack upside down. Do that for all of the words.
If you only have 6 words like I usually do, make duplicates. Divide the class up into teams.
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