Learning games for young learners

Learning games for young learners

“Uhm”Game

One student at a time is chosen and given a specific subject (pickle,grass,football,etc).The objective is for the student to talk about/describe the subject for as possible without pausing or using fillers such as “uhm”. This is a great game for building speech skills and kids love it!(Submitted by Maggie).

Unscramble

Write a word on the board that has all its letters mixed (e.g.”lrocsmaos”= “classroom”). Students have to unscramble the word. This works well in a team game. Variation: use letter blocks/letter shapes instead of writing on the board.

Vanishing Objects Game

Place a number of objects in front of the students. Give them a few moments to memorize the objects and then tell them to close their eyes. Take away one of the objects and then tell the students to open their eyes again. The first student to guess the missing object (for 1 point) and take away an object in the next round.

Vocab Tic Tac Toe

Draw a basic tic tac toe board on the white board with new vocabulary in each block. Each word is missing one, two or three letters depending on students level. One student from each team is called up and must fill in the missing letters and say the word aloud. The team with three in a row wins. (Submitted by Shawn).

Word  Chain

Have the students to sit with teacher in a circle. Teacher says a word (or sentence) and then the next student repeats that word and adds a new word. Student 2 then says 2 words and adds another. Continue going around the circle until the list gets too long to remember.