English Language

Fastgrasp

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This is a game packed full with ideas and suggestions, stories, riddles, and poems all about the pieces included. It is a fun way to aid development of language skills, imagination, concentration, and reactions. For 1-6 players and a reader.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Content Area: 
ELA
Special Education
Play Time: 
15 min.
Fastgrasp

Mouse Van Klecks

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Little Mouse van Klecks is a world-renowned artist. She has invited her best friends to come over to her studio today to paint with her. Each one of them enthusiastically grabs a paintbrush, paint colors and a canvas and is ready to go! But what's this?

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
15 min.
Mouse Van Klecks

Puff Pastries

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Delicious jelly and chocolate cake -- players blow a ball to reach these treats. Get the ball in the right hole and win a cream meringue. A game training the motor skills of lips and mouth thus enhancing language development.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Content Area: 
ELA
Special Education
Play Time: 
10 min.
Puff Pastries

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

Concept

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In Concept, your goal is to guess words through the association of icons. A team of two players – neighbors at the table – choose a word or phrase that the other players need to guess. Acting together, this team places pieces judiciously on the available icons on the game board.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
40 min.
Concept

Story Writing (2003, 2004)

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Viewers will learn about the story-writing process. Discusses character, setting, plot, the ending, and looks at ways to organize ideas through the use of character webs and story maps. Examines character and plot development, diologue, and descriptive details as a tool for making a story interesting.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:23
Story Writing

The Writing Process (2003, 2004)

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Viewers learn the importance of prewriting (thinking and planning), how to transform ideas into a written draft, different types of sentences (lead, topic, etc.) editing, proofreading, and publishing.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:23
The Writing Process

Expository Writing (2003, 2004)

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Expository writing emerges as the theme for this issue of Wordswork, and the editors are on a quest to fill the magazine with writing that informs or provides facts. The team quickly realizes that expository writing can be anything from a school science project to a letter to the president!

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:23
Expository Writing

Types of Writing (2003, 2004)

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Professor Plot, the zany publisher of Wordswork, has given his editors a unique challenge: Showcase four different types of writing, each with its own purpose and audience, in the upcoming issue of the magazine.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:23
Types of Writing

Writing Resources (2003, 2004)

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Students will learn about resources they can use to improve their writing. They will discover that they can look at the work of other writers, use books like a dictionary or thesaurus, use writing techniques like rhyme, alliteration, and onomatopoeia, organize ideas and facts with outlines or story maps. Proofreading tools are also discussed.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:23
Writing Resources