Slider Word Game

Let’s go sliding! Build vocabulary. Learn parts of speech. Practice spelling words. Create colorful sliders and play with words!

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  Try this fun way to build your vocabulary. Or practice spelling words. You’ll even learn parts of speech.

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  Design your slider. Sliders can be any shape you can imagine---maybe a dinosaur, a train, or a trampoline. Sketch ideas for your slider with Crayola® Erasable Colored Pencils. To make your slider long enough for a complete sentence, you may need two or more pieces of paper. Use a Crayola Glue Stick to hold the pieces together.

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  Color your slider with Crayola Washable Markers.

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  Write a sentence. Using a Crayola Fine Tip Marker, write a sentence on your slider with space for at least one missing word (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, or prepositional phrase).

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  Draw two lines, one above the other, where the missing word goes. Fold the paper gently, perpendicular to the lines, and cut slits with Crayola Scissors.

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  Accent your slider with Crayola Glitter Glue. Air-dry the glue.

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  Make word strips. Cut long strips of paper slightly narrower than your slider’s slits.

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  Divide word strips into sections with different background colors. Write one word in each section to complete the sentence you wrote on your slider.

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  Insert the word strips from the back of the slider through the slits. You’re ready to go sliding!

Benefits

• Students learn the rules and usage of one or more of the eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs, interjections, pronouns, and conjunctions.
• Students realize that learning about parts of speech and building their vocabulary are related to proper sentence structure and creative writing.
• Students create a slider to review various parts of speech, spelling words, or vocabulary words.

Adaptations

• For sturdier sliders, use posterboard or recycled file folders.
• Younger students and those with special needs might start with one missing-word strip of nouns as subjects in a sentence. Increase the difficulty of the sliders as children’s language skills improve.
• Ask small groups of students to write a whole story with sliders. Use strips to change the plot or characters.
• Encourage students to exchange sliders with each other, to make new sliders as they think of new words, and to organize their sliders by parts of speech.
• Use this same technique to create a math game. Instead of writing a sentence on the slider, write an addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division fact. Use a number strip to find the correct answer.