When your kids are burnt out on textbooks and workbooks, break out the games! Even games designed for older kids can be modified for younger ones, and you can turn any game into something educational with a little creative thinking! Here are some games we found to help with building grammar skills.
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Proper grammar is easy as pie when "chefs" follow recipes to make complete sentences by gathering and correctly identifying parts of speech. Draw a free ingredient card and add the funny word of your choice to the mix. Read complete sentences aloud for giggles and spoken grammar practice. Parts of Speech Cards feature color-coded backs for self-checking. Cooking Up Sentences! is one of our favorites! Ages 7 and up.
A language arts game for grades 3 & up. As students play around this colorful gameboard, they are involved in basic capitalization, punctuation, word usage, and spelling drills. Self-correcting cards give immediate feedback, making this terrific for independent groups. Fun with Language Arts is designed for younger players, but it can easily be modified for older students with custom cards. Ages 8 and up.
Funglish is like Charades—only better! This word-guessing game lets you express it and guess it with piles of tiles! You can't talk or act- but you can find, grab and play just the right clues from 120 descriptive tiles as everyone shouts out their guesses. Ages 12 and up.
Capture the excitement of a big city newspaper and reinforce your child's understanding of English grammar with Go to Press! A Grammar Game by Learning Resources. Players move from department to department finding and correcting errors in the headlines. The first player to create a complete newspaper by collecting a correct headline from each department, returns to the boss's office and says, "Go to press!" wins. Game cards feature questions asked in standardized-test format and are self checking with language rules printed at the bottom of each card. Ages 7-12.
Draw a card and see if you can answer one of 100 kid-friendly, self-checking questions. If you answer correctly, you roll the die and move your piece forward. Be the first to round the finish line and you win. Grammar 500 covers grammar, punctuation and capitalization. Simultaneous game play keeps everyone engaged. Ages 7 and up.
Grasping Grammar builds competence in identifying eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Sentences provide necessary context clues along with interesting science and geography facts. Tailor to your childs needs by selecting specific sentence cards. Claiming spaces on the four center grids involves strategic thinking. Includes 50 sentence cards, a reference card, answer keys, and assessment masters.
With Rory's Story Cubes, anyone can become a great storyteller and there are no wrong answers. Simply roll the cubes and let the pictures spark your imagination! Any number of players can play. A fun game that reinforces listening, speaking, and creative thinking skills. There is also an Actions expansion pack available. Ages 8 and up (but adaptable for all ages).
Rory's Story Cubes Actions is the first expansion set for the Rory's Story Cubes. Set features 9 cubes that illustrate 54 every day verbs. Play with them solo or combine them with other sets of Rory’s Story Cubes to kick-start your creativity and set your imagination in motion. Anyone can become a great storyteller and there are no wrong answers. Simply roll the cubes and let the pictures spark your imagination! Any number of players can play. A fun game that reinforces listening, speaking, and creative thinking skills. Ages 8 and up (but adaptable for all ages).