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Boggle

DATE ADDED: Feb 21, 2008     EDITED BY: まだ

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05-15 min.
 
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Brief Outline: Students work to make as many words as possible from a 3x3 grid on the chalkboard.

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Materials Needed:

  • A piece of paper for each student

 

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.
  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!

 

Teaching Suggestions:

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