ABSTRACT

With an emphasis on learning through play, this book provides a comprehensive collection of word games for vocabulary development or to constructively fill leisure time. The activities are suitable for children and adults and can be adapted for different client groups. They are ideal for teachers, therapists, youth club leaders or activity providers. The only principle for including a game in this collection is that it had to be fun to play! This title includes: A-E-I-O-U; Letter patience; 'M' in the middle; double meanings; Pro-nouns; Haiku; Guessing rhyming words; Forbidden letters; Who has the word?; and Word snakes. The only principle for including a game in this collection is that it had to be fun to play!

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part |174 pages

The Games

chapter 1|3 pages

a-e-i-o-u

chapter 2|1 pages

Everything OK?

chapter 3|1 pages

Everything you can eat beginning with R

chapter 4|1 pages

Alphabet stories number 1

chapter 5|2 pages

Alphabet stories number 2

chapter 6|2 pages

Alphabet stories number 3

chapter 7|1 pages

Anagrams

chapter 8|1 pages

Anagrams with leftovers

chapter 9|1 pages

Analogies

chapter 10|1 pages

Beginning and ending

chapter 11|1 pages

Article hunt

chapter 12|1 pages

Associations

chapter 13|1 pages

‘Wig’ rhymes with ‘twig’

chapter 14|1 pages

‘Slip’ becomes ‘snap’

chapter 15|2 pages

Categories

chapter 16|2 pages

Engaged

chapter 17|1 pages

Bridging words

chapter 18|2 pages

Letter Patience

chapter 19|2 pages

Letter travel

chapter 20|2 pages

Letter Rummy

chapter 21|1 pages

Letter salad

chapter 22|1 pages

Letter riddles

chapter 23|1 pages

The secret of the four letters

chapter 24|1 pages

‘M’ in the middle

chapter 25|1 pages

The ‘you’ game

chapter 26|1 pages

The longest sentence

chapter 27|2 pages

Peter does not like sweets

chapter 28|1 pages

Big chunks

chapter 29|1 pages

Double meanings

chapter 30|1 pages

The ten-word story

chapter 31|1 pages

The minister’s cat

chapter 32|1 pages

Three letters - one word

chapter 33|1 pages

Three times five

chapter 34|1 pages

Rule of three

chapter 35|1 pages

Dippy as a doughnut

chapter 36|1 pages

Filling in the gaps

chapter 37|1 pages

One at the front - one at the back

chapter 38|1 pages

One-syllabic

chapter 39|2 pages

One word is always there

chapter 40|2 pages

A word becomes longer

chapter 41|2 pages

An additional’T’

chapter 42|1 pages

Little elevens

chapter 43|2 pages

False separations

chapter 44|1 pages

Family research

chapter 45|2 pages

Fire, water, air and earth

chapter 46|2 pages

Busy builders

chapter 47|1 pages

Strangers in plural

chapter 48|1 pages

Pronouns

chapter 49|2 pages

Hangman

chapter 50|2 pages

Writing poems (1)

chapter 51|1 pages

Writing poems (2)

chapter 52|2 pages

Writing poems (3)

chapter 53|2 pages

Stuffed turkey

chapter 54|1 pages

Opposites

chapter 55|1 pages

Opposites - slightly disarranged

chapter 56|1 pages

Similarities

chapter 57|1 pages

Similarities - with a pinch of salt

chapter 58|1 pages

Cryptic conversations

chapter 59|1 pages

Sums

chapter 60|1 pages

Hansel and Gretel

chapter 61|1 pages

Haiku

chapter 62|2 pages

Draw & guess

chapter 63|2 pages

I am travelling to Honolulu

chapter 64|2 pages

I spy with my little eye

chapter 65|2 pages

No - without

chapter 66|2 pages

Small ads

chapter 67|1 pages

Body parts

chapter 68|2 pages

Crossword game

chapter 69|1 pages

Cuckoo egg

chapter 70|1 pages

Shorthand

chapter 71|1 pages

Long words

chapter 72|1 pages

Magical word squares

chapter 73|1 pages

My name - my programme

chapter 74|2 pages

Pins and needles

chapter 75|1 pages

Monotonous sentences

chapter 76|2 pages

Writing news

chapter 77|1 pages

New vowels - new consonants

chapter 78|1 pages

New prefix - new word

chapter 79|2 pages

Nine-times-nine stories

chapter 80|1 pages

Not so monosyllabic

chapter 81|2 pages

Uncle Fred sings in the bathtub

chapter 82|1 pages

Paradoxes

chapter 83|1 pages

Looking for sayings

chapter 84|1 pages

Guessing rhyming words

chapter 85|1 pages

R is recommended

chapter 86|1 pages

Laying sentences

chapter 87|2 pages

Sentence chains

chapter 88|1 pages

Playing charades

chapter 89|1 pages

Headlines

chapter 90|1 pages

Quick thinkers

chapter 91|1 pages

Quick pondering

chapter 92|1 pages

Syllable chains

chapter 93|1 pages

Syllable puzzle

chapter 94|1 pages

Menu

chapter 95|1 pages

Mirror images

chapter 96|1 pages

Sharp words

chapter 97|2 pages

Guessing proverbs

chapter 98|1 pages

Town, country, river

chapter 99|1 pages

Synonyms

chapter 100|2 pages

Teapot: double meanings

chapter 101|2 pages

Teapot with a head

chapter 102|1 pages

Text message

chapter 103|1 pages

Words message

chapter 104|2 pages

Forbidden letters

chapter 105|1 pages

Hidden animals

chapter 106|1 pages

Hidden numbers

chapter 107|1 pages

Business cards quiz

chapter 108|1 pages

Vowel sentences

chapter 109|2 pages

Full house

chapter 110|1 pages

Heads and tails

chapter 111|1 pages

What can you think of?

chapter 112|1 pages

What is romantic?

chapter 113|1 pages

Which proverb is that?

chapter 114|2 pages

Who can think of the most?

chapter 115|1 pages

If you were ruler of the world

chapter 116|1 pages

Who can find the fibs?

chapter 117|2 pages

Who has the word?

chapter 118|1 pages

Who is hiding in Parliament?

chapter 119|1 pages

Who knows the paper?

chapter 120|1 pages

Who does what?

chapter 121|2 pages

How does it go on?

chapter 122|2 pages

What is your name?

chapter 123|1 pages

Hardening words

chapter 124|2 pages

Guessing words

chapter 125|1 pages

Where is Al?

chapter 126|1 pages

Word treasure chest

chapter 127|2 pages

Word snakes

chapter 128|1 pages

Word and number

chapter 129|1 pages

Zoo in reverse

chapter 130|1 pages

Non-identical twins