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Wordplay! The Game Show is a fun PowerPoint game show based on vocabulary-building word games.
In my Ten-Minute Grammar daily language units, I include a series of word games that I tag onto the end of every day's grammar bell-ringer. My students love the Wordplay activities so much that I thought it would be fun to turn them into a game show for special occasions.
The game show includes ten different word games:
* "Eight Ball" - Students create as many words as they can using eight random letters (at least one eight-letter word is always possible)
* "Four-Letter Words" - Students start with a four-letter word and then change one letter at a time to create a series of words that are only one letter different from one another
* "Catalog Creator" - Students are given a prefix, suffix, or root and must list as many words as they can that contain it
* "Fixer-Rooter" - Starting with a high-level multisyllabic word, students have to list words that have the same prefix, suffix, or root
* "Rhyme Thyme" - Students start with an assigned word and list as many rhyming words as they can
* "Anagram" - Students must reorganize the letters in several nonsense words to make words that actually make sense (and match the hint)
* "Descrambler" - Students must descramble five words--one with four letters, one with five, one with six, one with seven, and one with eight
* "Synonymous" - Students list as many synonyms and antonyms as they can for a given word
* "Say What?" - Students must decode a common saying, movie quote, or song lyric
* "Alternate Endings" - Students add different suffixes to come up with as many alterations of a word as they can
This product download will come as a 52-slide PowerPoint complete with fun animations, music, and sound effects. A separate PDF file with game instructions is also included.
If you like these activities, check out the other Wordplay! products in my store or my Ten-Minute Grammar units, which incorporate the Wordplay games as a bonus activity after daily grammar bell-ringers.
I hope your students have a blast with this and don't forget to WRITE A REVIEW!
Created by Arik Durfee
In my Ten-Minute Grammar daily language units, I include a series of word games that I tag onto the end of every day's grammar bell-ringer. My students love the Wordplay activities so much that I thought it would be fun to turn them into a game show for special occasions.
The game show includes ten different word games:
* "Eight Ball" - Students create as many words as they can using eight random letters (at least one eight-letter word is always possible)
* "Four-Letter Words" - Students start with a four-letter word and then change one letter at a time to create a series of words that are only one letter different from one another
* "Catalog Creator" - Students are given a prefix, suffix, or root and must list as many words as they can that contain it
* "Fixer-Rooter" - Starting with a high-level multisyllabic word, students have to list words that have the same prefix, suffix, or root
* "Rhyme Thyme" - Students start with an assigned word and list as many rhyming words as they can
* "Anagram" - Students must reorganize the letters in several nonsense words to make words that actually make sense (and match the hint)
* "Descrambler" - Students must descramble five words--one with four letters, one with five, one with six, one with seven, and one with eight
* "Synonymous" - Students list as many synonyms and antonyms as they can for a given word
* "Say What?" - Students must decode a common saying, movie quote, or song lyric
* "Alternate Endings" - Students add different suffixes to come up with as many alterations of a word as they can
This product download will come as a 52-slide PowerPoint complete with fun animations, music, and sound effects. A separate PDF file with game instructions is also included.
If you like these activities, check out the other Wordplay! products in my store or my Ten-Minute Grammar units, which incorporate the Wordplay games as a bonus activity after daily grammar bell-ringers.
I hope your students have a blast with this and don't forget to WRITE A REVIEW!
Created by Arik Durfee
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myersk1
Fun activity.
June 8, 2013 
rgibbings
I can't wait to use this!
February 4, 2013
smartypantz
Great resource!
January 6, 2013
hradford
AWESOME!! My kids loved this game! Just a tiny comment. On the "Say What?" category, one of the scrambled words has "fur" as the letters instead of "for". In the "ask not what your country can do for you" one. Not a big deal. I just wanted to let you know! Thanks!!
November 20, 2012
Arik Durfee (TpT Seller)
Thank you for pointing that out. I'll get it fixed and re-uploaded as soon as I can.
November 25, 2012
Jennifer Kincaid (TpT Seller)
Looking forward to using this resource in my classes!
November 11, 2012
ssprunger
I just started using these games last week. My students just love them.
October 21, 2012
Arik Durfee (TpT Seller)
That's great. I have other wordplay games too if they start begging for more. Thanks for the review!
October 26, 2012
adenamccullough
I look forward to playing these games with my students after testing. Thank you.
April 16, 2012
Arik Durfee (TpT Seller)
Sounds like a great wind-down activity after testing. Thanks for the review!
April 16, 2012
Tracy Fordham (TpT Seller)
These are not as intuative to use as many of your other items are. I'm "feeling my way" through them. Some are difficult for my 7th graders. Are there answers somewhere I'm missing (after the first examples)?
March 2, 2012
Arik Durfee (TpT Seller)
There are only answers for some of the word games (like "Eight-Ball" and "Descrabler" and "Anagram.") Most of the others have almost endless possible answers. So if the answer doesn't pop up after the game timer runs out, it means there is no specific "correct" answer and the winner for that round will just be ther person who has the most correct answers.
Hope that helps, and thanks for the feedback!
Hope that helps, and thanks for the feedback!
March 4, 2012
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