Submitted by: Raegina Taylor

Borrowed from or inspired by: The actual board game

Date added: 02-21-08

Boggle

Brief Outline:  Students work to make as many words as possible from a 3x3 grid on the chalkboard.

Materials Needed:

• A piece of paper for each student

Teaching Suggestions:

• Teach as a warm-up to a writing class, or a class based on vocabulary.

Detailed Explanation:

1. Draw a 3x3 square on the board. Ask students randomly to give you a letter to fill up the grid.  See the grid to the right.

   S	F	W
   T	A	L
   H	O	R

2. Give students a time limit to come up with as many words as possible.
3. You can have students report back on the words they made to a ‘vocabulary bank’, which is contributed by the entire class.

Variations:

• Easy - have any word length ok.
• Difficult - words containing 3+ letters OR all words must contain the middle letter in the grid .
• Phonics - students can have any combination- as long as they can pronounce it!