Page 6 - Literacy Skills

PICK-A-WORD

• Children work in groups of 6; place all bricks
randomly in the middle of the group.
• Teacher has a jar filled with words on her
desk.
• Each team leader comes to the desk to pick
out a word and takes it back to show the
group.
• The children must work together to build a
model of that word, using their bricks.
• These builds must be done quietly and
secretly so that the other groups cannot hear
what the word is.
• Groups have a look at each other’s models
and try to guess what their word is, by asking
questions that can only be answered with yes
or no.
• E.g. Is it an animal? Can we eat it? Does it
grow?

WHO HAS

GOT THE BRICK?

• Teacher selects one child to leave the
classroom while she gives a brick to
someone in the class to hold.
• That child then returns to the classroom and
must try to guess who has the brick.
• Three yes / no questions may be asked in
order to help the child figure out who has
the brick. E.g. Is it a boy? Does the person
have a red shirt? Etc.
• If the child cannot guess, one clue may be
given.
• Play the game a few times to allow different
children a turn to be the guesser.

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