The purpose of this game is for children to learn about letter order in words. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n For example if the word was happy<\/strong>…<\/p>\n Does your word have an ‘a’?<\/p>\n Is the word an adjective?<\/p>\n Has it got 2 syllables?<\/p>\n Does it begin with an ‘h’?<\/p>\n Is your word ‘happy’?<\/p>\n Players are allowed to take notes if they wish. A player can keep asking questions as long as the answer is ‘yes’. As soon as an answer is ‘no’ the other player begins their turn and the process is repeated.<\/p>\n 3. The first player to correctly guess the other player’s word wins the round. The winner is the game is the first person to reach three points. The players look at a new page each time a game is finished.<\/p>\n This game would make a great time filler just before a break, but the whole class has to guess the teacher’s word.<\/p>\n This activity is intended for intermediate children but can be done with Year 5\/6. It makes a great independent fast-finisher activity. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n None, all the teacher needs to do is write the word ‘startling’ on the board.<\/p>\n Tell the children by taking one letter at a time they can change the word ‘startling’ into 8 other words. Once a letter has been removed it cannot be replaced. The remaining letters in their same order must spell a word.<\/p>\n Startling >> starling >> staring >> string >> sing >> sin >> in >>.<\/p>\n Ask the children if they can create their own puzzle. It is probably easier to work backwards, for example:<\/p>\n A >> an >> tan >> Stan >> stand >> stands >> strands<\/p>\n Afterwards let the children solve each other puzzles.<\/p>\n This type of writing is great for the younger children. Nouns, adjectives, and verbs can be taught explicitly to older children. Children love making funny stories! <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Write a piece of text on the whiteboard (use below’s one as a guideline). The children then have to fill in the gaps using nouns, adjectives, verbs and miscellaneous words.<\/p>\n Noun<\/strong> – A name of a person, place or thing. For example, cat, James, New Zealand<\/em><\/p>\n Verb<\/strong> – An action word. For example, skip, swim, walk<\/em><\/p>\n Adjectives<\/strong> – A describing word. For example, ugly, bumpy, blue<\/em><\/p>\n Michellaneous<\/strong> – It can be any word at all. For example mouth, eight, red <\/em><\/p>\n A (Misc)<\/strong> followed me Home<\/p>\nResources:<\/h4>\n
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"The Startling Puzzle"<\/h3>\n
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"Silly Missing Blanks"<\/h3>\n
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