ELA

ELA (X) - Card Game (X)

M is for Mouse

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A is for Apple, R is for Ring. There's a first letter for all of these things. Link each object to its starting letter. As you find matches, your score will get better.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
10 min.
M is for Mouse

Quiddler

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The challenge is to arrange your entire hand into words. Draw and discard in turn. Try to use those high point letters, but don't get caught with them uncombined.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
20 min.
Quiddler

My Word!

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Quickly search for words while single and double letter cards are dealt on to the table. The first player to call out a word using at least three cards, wins those cards.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
20 min.
My Word!

Once Upon a Time

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Once Upon a Time is a game in which players create a story using the cards that show important elements from fairy tales. One player is the storyteller and creates a story using the ingredients on their cards, trying to guide the plot to their own ending.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
20 min.
Once Upon a Time

Nanofictionary

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Nanofictionary is a game about telling tiny stories. You might say it's like a miniature short story writing contest in the form of a card game.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
30 min.
Nanofictionary

Aye, Dark Overlord!

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The Evil Genius, Rigor Mortis broods upon his throne and casts his baleful gaze across his cowardly and inept Goblin Servants.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Special Education
ELA
Play Time: 
30 min.
Aye, Dark Overlord!

Dixit Jinx

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Jinx is a new Game in the Dixit family but unlike the original game the drawings are not realistic illustrations depicting scenes but images halfway between abstraction and figuration.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Special Education
ELA
Fine Arts
Play Time: 
15 min.
Dixit Jinx

Scrabble Slam!

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In this fast-paced card game based on Scrabble, each player is dealt a hand of two-sided cards: each one has a different letter on each side, and a pair of letters in the corners that note which letters are on each face.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
15 min.
Scrabble Slam!

Wordwright

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Wordwright is an expandable card game platform that focuses on how the English language works: Players make words using word parts and their definitions, not individual letters.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
30 min.
Wordwright

Jump Ship

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As the captain of the Black Bounty, it's up to you to chart your own course through this pirate Cardventure! Should you defend your boat from enemy pirates, or do you go and plunder another ship? Do you duel your fearsome nemesis Captain Peg, or do you jump into the squid-infested waters?

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
ELA
Other
Play Time: 
15 min.
Jump Ship

Stowaway 52

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You've sneaked aboard an alien ship that's about to attack Earth and it's up to you to stop it! Set a course for sabotage with this unique "Cardventure" – an interactive story that puts you at the controls. Do you reprogram the flight computer, or do you destroy the engine room?

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
ELA
Library
Play Time: 
15 min.
Stowaway 52

Marrying Mr. Darcy

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Marrying Mr. Darcy is a role-playing game where players are one of the female characters from Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. Players work to improve themselves and become more desirable as potential wives for the available Suitors.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
45 min.
Marrying Mr. Darcy