Whenever there are a few minutes of down time, you’ll be ready for a quick game. Every time you think of a new category (indefinite pronouns, planets, types of rocks, etc.) grab an index card and add it to your stack. Keep the index cards you started for this game. You may decide if an answer is valid or not, or what to do in the case of a tie score. I always tell students that the decision of the judge is final…and I’m the judge.So if students are sitting in a circle around the room, the students whose last name is closest to the beginning of the alphabet gets up and moves clockwise around the room to the next group. Students keep their own scores and add to that when they join a new team. This gives students a chance to play with someone else and move around the room. You can “reshuffle” your pairs of students after a few rounds.If students don’t think they can win, they’ll lose interest and become a distraction. This makes it difficult for other teams to catch up. You may decide to do this, but the drawback is that a “powerhouse” team might earn eight or ten points on the first round. It’s tempting to give the teams all the points they’ve earned on their list.At the end of the round, the team with the most words on their list wins a point. If another team has written the same thing on their list, both teams (or all teams who have written it) need to cross that word off their list. When the time is up, each team reads their list. Depending on the skill level of your class and the category, you may decide to pick a letter (call it a challenge round) or let the students work on the list without any restrictions.ģ. Pull a letter from the bag and that letter must begin each word on list the students come up with. I have a bag of Scrabble letters that I keep handy (I LOVE Scrabble tournaments with students - but that’s another post!). If you have the Scattergories “die” you can use that to choose a letter, or you can use a cube from a Boggle game. At the start of the year, you want easy ones like “Things to do during the summer,” “Ice cream flavors,” “Vacation spots,” “Things to do at the beach,” “Things to do at an amusement park,” “Breakfast cereals.” Create a few challenges too, like “Lakes in our state,” “Adjectives that describe the summer,” “Verbs that you might use to write about someone riding her bike,” “Prepositions,” “Presidents.” You can shuffle the cards up and pick ones – or you can start with the easy cards and then move to the harder ones.Ģ. Before class, write down different categories on index cards.
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