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Language Games

26 Cubs

A great on-the-go game!

Pretend youre Cleo and Theo with 26 cubs instead of just two! You need to give each cub a name that begins with a different letter of the alphabet.

Using the 26 letters of the alphabet, think of a name for each cub. You will end up with a list of 26 different names. Some letters, like X and Y, are really tough so well get you startedXavier, Yogi, Yshande.

For Ages 5-95

For 1 or more players

A Great Way to... begin to recognize letters and associate names of letters with their sounds

Ads Everywhere

A great on-the-go game!

The Trampolini Brothers, characters who appear on Between the Lions, are great at demonstrating comparative and superlative adjectives, like good, better, best and loud, louder, loudest. This game helps kids learn about print and about comparative language.

No matter where you are, youll find advertisementson buildings, in magazines, on billboards, and on television programs. Advertisements try to sell you something that you may or may not need and convince you that one thing is better than another.

Take a look around. Do you see any advertisements? What are they selling? Identify letters, words, and pictures in the ads.

Talk about what the ads mean, and what kinds of comparative and superlative adjectives and pictures companies use to sell things.

For Ages 4-94

For 1 or more players

A Great Way to... learn to recognize local environmental print, understand that print conveys meaning, and develop and use new vocabulary

Alphabet Ventriloquist

A great on-the-go game!

Can you make a sound without moving your lips? Ventriloquists can! It takes a lot of practice to do this well.

Try to say the alphabet without moving your lips. Can you do it? If not, which letters are the hardest? How come?

Try singing your favorite song without moving your lips.

For Ages 4-94

For 1 or more players

A Great Way to... begin to recognize letters and associate names of letters with their sounds

Animal Guessing Game

A great on-the-go game!

Lionel and Leona love to play guessing games. To play this Animal Guessing Game one person thinks of an animal and the other person asks yes or no questions until he or she can guess the animal.

Switch roles so the first person now asks the questions.

Some of the questions might be:

* Is your animal a pet?

* Is your animal bigger than this book?

* Does your animal have four legs?

* Can your animal fly?

For Ages 4-94

For 2 or more players

A Great Way to... listen to others with understanding and learn active listening skills

The Animals on the BUS

A great on-the-go game!

Cleo loves to sing just because its fun, but Cleo also knows that singing is a great way to gain literacy skills: Singing helps Cleo learn new vocabulary words and the sounds of words.

Have fun and learn by singing familiar songs or adding a new twist to a classic song.

Make up new words to the song The Wheels on the Bus, naming animals and the sounds they make. Two examples are The dogs on the bus go bow-wow-wow and the chickens on the bus go cluck-cluck-cluck.

For Ages 3-93

For 1 or more players

A Great Way to... learn about onomatopoeia, phonemic awareness, and vocabulary

As colorful as a Rainbow

A great on-the-go game!

Is it possible to describe a color by comparing it to something else?

Find a colorful object and then say what color it is by comparing it to something else. Is a stoplight as red as a clowns nose? Maybe your shirt is as blue as the sky, or as yellow as mustard (no fair if you actually have mustard on your shirt!).

For a variation, try describing the size or feel of something: a phone as big as a shoe, or a blanket as soft as a bunny.

For Ages 4-94

For 1 or more players

A Great Way to... develop varied and complex vocabulary

Au-Toe-Graph

For Ages 5-95

For 1 or more players

A great on-the-go game!

Practice signing your au-toe-graph.

Write your name on a piece of paper, but instead of using your hand use your toes!

HINT Place a pencil, pen, marker, or crayon in your toes the same way you would hold it in your hand. Then sit in a chair with the paper on the ground below you and try to write your name.

Once you can write your name, write friends and family members names, or sentences.

A Great Way to... learn how to distinguish letter shapes

Big and Little Pretending

A great on-the-go game!

In this game, kids get to imagine all sorts of big and little possibilities!

What would it be like to be as big as a blue whale, or as little as an ant? Where would you sleep if you were very, very big or very, very small? What would you eat and drink for breakfast? Where would you take a bath? How can kids be helpful, because of their special size? (Sometimes being smaller than adults can be very helpful, and being very large can also be helpful!)

For Ages 4-94

For 2 or more players

A Great Way to... learn about opposites and positional words such as up, down, and so on

Big, Bigger, Biggest

For Ages 4-94

For 2 or more players

A great on-the-go game!

The Trampolini Brothers on Between the Lions know all about comparative adjectives like big, bigger, and biggest.

The object of this game is to begin to understand comparative adjectives and how to use them.

You can compare just about anything. For example, think about the foods you like to eat. Which foods are tasty, which foods are tastier, and which ones are tastiest?

Which list of foods is long, which list is longer, and which is longest?

Look around you and see if you can find something that you can describe using comparative adjectives.

A Great Way to... learn about comparative language and develop and use new vocabulary

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