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.

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.