Games

The Following are some skills and concepts necessary for classroom success that can be strengthened and developed through games and activities:
Cause and Effect: Learning to test actions and their results.
Conversation: Knowing that arrangement of things can be changed while their amount stays the same.
Correspondence/Counting: Learning the relationship between the number one and one object, etc. Knowing the names of numbers.
Creativity: Combining elements in different ways to achieve a new result.
Matching: Identifying alike and not alike.
Measuring: Learning to compare such as finding big, bigger, and biggest.
Ordering: Learning to put things in order in a particular way such as color.
Patterning: Learning to recognize and create patterns in all forms: visual, verbal numerical, musical, etc.
Planning
Predicting
Problem Solving
Reversibility: Understanding that some processes and actions can't be undone.
Sorting and Classifying
Sportsmanship
Symbolic Representation: Using marks or objects to represent something.
Turn taking
Vocabulary


 

Store Bought Games That Promote Language
Candy Land
Candy Land Color Bingo
Go Fish
Guess Who?
Scrabble Jr.
Match and Move Memory Game
Memory
My First Uno
Outburst Jr.
Dictionary Jr.
Picture Picture
Sorry
Jigsaw Puzzles


More Word Game Links:
Language And Word Games to Try

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