{"id":191,"date":"2009-01-05T12:34:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T19:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2016-09-30T21:44:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T04:44:05","slug":"fun-word-games-for-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/fun-word-games-for-winter","title":{"rendered":"Fun Word Games for Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordcentral.com\/games.html\">Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Word Central<\/a> has a few fun drill-and-practice games that you can share with your students. I tried three games: Robo-Bee, BIGbot and Jumble Kids. We&#8217;re not talking high-level thinking here, but if you want your students to practice their word skills, or if you need something for remediation, you might want to give these a try. They load easily and are played from your web browser.<\/p>\n<p>Robo-Bee uses context clues to help students choose the correct word from other similar choices:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_192\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/picture-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192\" class=\"size-full wp-image-192\" title=\"Robo-Bee\" src=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/picture-1.png\" alt=\"Reviewing Homophones\" width=\"500\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/picture-1.png 683w, http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/picture-1-300x251.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reviewing Homophones<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jumble Kids is similar to the newspaper puzzle:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_194\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/picture-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194\" class=\"size-full wp-image-194\" title=\"Jumble Kids\" src=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/picture-2.png\" alt=\"Just Like in the Newspaper\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/picture-2.png 625w, http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/picture-2-300x230.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just Like in the Newspaper<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Word Central has a few fun drill-and-practice games that you can share with your students. I tried three games: Robo-Bee, BIGbot and Jumble Kids. We&#8217;re not talking high-level thinking here, but if you&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[79],"tags":[118,117],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-merriam-webster","tag-word-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPveS-35","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}