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The best writing games to engage students

A colleague of mine recently shared these ten great writing game ideas to improve literacy skills in the classroom.  They are simple to play and can be applied to nearly all year levels. 

These are some of the best writing games that require minimal or no setup time and are an excellent option for substitute teachers looking to quickly break the ice with students or English teachers just seeking fresh ideas to brighten up their lessons. Enjoy.

Remember that if you are looking for more excellent free resources and structured guides to teaching all aspects of English, especially writing, be sure to visit literacyideas.com.

Start with a short sentence or group of words.  Pass it around to about 6 people, with the rule that each person must add (a word or a group of words) or change ONE word ( to another word or a group of words) to make the sentence more specific and more enjoyable.

Students write sentences or longer texts and substitute drawings for nouns.

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Place an object in a bag- ensure the students don’t see it. Students feel the object in the bag and use words to describe how it feels. They take it out and add /alter their adjectives.

An object is passed around a group of students. Each student suggests an adjective to describe it.

Alternative

Students provide an adjectival phrase or clause to describe the object

Students randomly select from a box a picture of an animal, person or object that moves. They brainstorm action verbs for the chosen object.

Alternative

The students can supply verbs and adverbs

They can supply adjectives or adjectival groups

Read a text ( this case narrative), and at a particular point, stop and ask students to select a character and suggest, for example:

• What the character is doing, thinking, and feeling ( focus on processes)

Students locate and change one word that will alter the sentence’s meaning.

They share their alterations and discuss which part of speech was the most important in changing the meaning.

Read a text and ask students to write nouns on cards ( red), adjectives (blue), and articles in orange. Rearrange words to create different noun groups. Students can also locate verbs ( green card) and adverbs (yellow). Rearrange all the words to create new sentences.

Alternative

Students can locate adjectival phrases, clauses, or adverbial phrases and write these on other coloured cards.

Players must throw a 1 before they can begin. The winner is the first person to make a sentence that includes all of the following:

1. A group of words that tell what or who ( singular)
2. A group of words that tell when
3. A verb in the past tense
4. An adverb telling how
5. A group of words telling where

They can then rearrange the sentence parts to see how many ways they can make another meaningful sentence.  

Alternative

Other parts of speech can be used for each number thrown.

Before the activity, a cube is prepared. Upon each face of the cube, a task is written that requires specific grammar knowledge. For example:

Make a sentence

Make a question

Provide two adjectives

Provide two verbs

Create a noun group (e.g. article, adjective/s noun)

Provide a noun and an adverb

Students select a subject ( noun) from a tin. They throw the cube, and whichever side of the cube faces up is the task they must attempt.

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The content for this page has been written by Shane Mac Donnchaidh.  A former principal of an international school and English university lecturer with 15 years of teaching and administration experience. Shane’s latest Book, The Complete Guide to Nonfiction Writing, can be found here.  Editing and support for this article have been provided by the literacyideas team.

12 Writing Games To Help Kids Learn To Write And Have Fun Doing It

Writing can feel daunting to young learners — there are so many letters to memorize, sounds to recall, and words to spell! You might be wondering what the best writing games are to help your child learn to write.

HOMER has got you covered with these simple and engaging writing games! With minimal equipment required, these activities can be set up within minutes and provide unlimited fun.

Before we dive into our favorite writing games, let’s discover why writing is important in child development.

Why Writing Is Crucial To Development

From their early scribbles to drawing recognizable letters, writing is a useful form of self-expression for children and allows their ideas to flow more easily.

What’s more, the alphabetic code is reversible, so children who use sounds to determine words for writing are simultaneously advancing their ability to sound out words and read coherently. Win-win!

This is a lifelong skill that your child will use every day, so it’s important to know how to best nurture and develop these emergent literacy skills from a young age.

By playing the writing games outlined below and taking the time to practice, your young writer will be an expert in no time!

Why Games Are Important For Learning

You know that it’s important for your child to develop writing skills, but you may be wondering why you should incorporate games into their learning.

Why can’t your child just sit down with a pen and paper to practice writing?

Less Stressful Learning

Here’s the stitch: Being asked to sit down and practice writing skills can be daunting for some kids. It can also be frustrating when they come across letters or words they struggle with.

Games, on the other hand, decrease stress levels and get children excited about learning.

While playing learning games, your child will not only be practicing their writing skills, but they’ll also be more focused on completing the fun activity than on getting frustrated that they can’t write the uppercase Q, Z, or J.

When children see that learning doesn’t have to be tense or highly stressful, it can also change their perception of educational activities. In fact, they may be more willing to participate in future educational games.

Motivation

Motivation is one of the biggest advantages of playing writing games.

Kids are more likely to pay attention to the instructions and participate when they see the activity is fun. This is much more effective for teaching writing (and other) skills than simply handing them a worksheet.

Some educational games also allow children to play in pairs or groups. Interacting with peers or family members in this way is an excellent opportunity to develop critical social skills, such as listening to others, communicating effectively, and taking turns.

Friendly Competition

Kids can be very competitive — with their friends, siblings, and sometimes even with mom and dad. Playing writing games can foster a spirit of fun, healthy competition.

If you involve multiple children in these activities, the child who wins can learn to congratulate their fellow competitors and not just brag about their accomplishment. And the one who loses can learn to celebrate another person’s win and try harder next time.

Problem-Solving Skills

By nature, most games require participants to incorporate problem-solving skills, planning, and creativity. That’s a lot of mental work!

Playing writing — and other types of educational — games can help your child develop these essential life skills.

Now that we’re clear on why writing games are important, let’s get into the activities you can introduce to your child today.

We’ve divided these into three sections — writing games for preschoolers and kindergarteners, first graders, and second graders. So, feel free to scroll to the relevant section for your child (or children), and let the games begin!

Writing Games For Preschoolers And Kindergarteners

1) Disappearing Letters

What You’ll Need

• A chalkboard
• Chalk
• A paintbrush
• A cup of water

What To Do

Start this activity by writing a repeated letter, a word, or your child’s name on the chalkboard using your chalk. If you’re writing a single letter, start by writing it five times in a row.

Dip the paintbrush in the cup of water and have your child trace over each of the letters, erasing them one by one.

Once your child has mastered one letter, move on to multiple letters until they’re comfortable using this activity to “write” their name and short consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words such as dog and cat.

This activity is great for working on developing your little one’s fine motor skills as well as their spelling abilities, which will aid them as they take pencil to paper!

2) Hands-On Writing

What You’ll Need

• A tray or bin
• A fun material such as sand, flour, or shaving cream — anything that can hold a shape
• A pen and piece of paper (optional)

What To Do

To start this activity, grab a tray or bin that’s deep enough to hold your chosen material.

Fill your tray and bin with sand, flour, shaving cream, or anything else that can be used to form a shape. This is what your child will use to develop their writing skills!

Say a letter to your child (or write the letter on a piece of paper for them to copy, if needed) and have them write the letter into the sand, flour, or shaving cream with their finger.

Eventually, you can work your way up to having your child write whole words, like their name or things they love (the names of their friends and family or even their favorite foods or toys).

Don’t worry too much about what the letters look like — even scribbles are OK! Whatever your child writes to produce a letter or word is great progress.

This activity lets you make writing a fun, sensory experience! Try using different materials to keep your child engaged and to learn more about the world around them while they practice their writing skills.

You could also use a fingerpainting method for this game for some colorful fun — enjoy getting creative with this writing game!

3) Yarn Letters

What You’ll Need

• Blank sheets of paper
• Pencils
• Yarn
• Child-safe scissors
• Glue

What To Do

Grab the blank sheet of paper and help your child draw a letter of the alphabet with a pencil. Then, hand them the yarn, scissors, and glue, and help them trace the letter by cutting and gluing the string onto its shape.

Performing this task is an effective way for your child to develop their fine motor skills, a key component of writing. In addition, this hands-on activity allows children to continue learning their letters.

Writing Games For First Graders

4) Roll The Dice

What You’ll Need

• A piece of paper
• A pen or pencil
• A dice

What To Do

This writing game is all about creating a fun story with your child using dice to determine how many words you get to add each turn!

Start by having your child choose a main character, a setting, and a problem. For example, your character might be a cat, your setting might be a garden, and the problem might be that the cat needs to find some food.

Write the first sentence of your story based on the character, setting, and problem you’ve chosen with your child. Using our example above, the first sentence might be, “Once, there was a cat in a garden who couldn’t find any food.”

After you write the first sentence, have your child roll the dice. Whatever number the dice lands on is the number of words they’ll add to the story — not one word more or less!

You can assist your child by sounding out tricky words and helping them write if needed. Once they’ve added their words, it’s your turn to roll the dice and write your next round of words based on the dice number.

Take up to five turns each before finishing your story together by choosing an ending. Then read your story aloud to see how it all flows!

5) Speech Bubbles

What You’ll Need

• A piece of paper for drawing or a printed cartoon
• A pen or pencil

What To Do

For this activity, start by having your child draw a picture with a character or two. You could draw this scene together or even print off some characters from the internet to color and decorate together.

Once you’ve finished drawing and decorating your characters, it’s time for each of you to draw and fill in a speech bubble to create thoughts for your character (or a conversation if you drew more than one character).

For example, if your character is a dog, maybe he’s standing by an empty bowl. What might a hungry dog say? Some options could be, “Where’s my food?” or “I hope they bring pizza!”.

Let your child’s imagination run wild with possibilities for filling in the speech bubbles and enjoy this writing activity together by writing down the silly suggestions, too!

Speech bubbles are one of the most fun options for writing games as they’re quick, easy, and short for young writers.

This may help your child feel less intimidated as they explore more words to add to their vocabulary and practice forming their letters correctly.

6) Birthday Cards

What You’ll Need

• Colored pens or crayons
• Pencils
• Blank birthday card

What To Do

Birthdays are a day most people look forward to. For kids, this day usually means lots of gifts, games, a birthday cake, and, of course, a birthday card.

Help your child create a unique birthday card for their friend, neighbor, cousin, sibling, mom, or dad — whoever they want! Once they select the recipient, get the supplies you need and help them write a sweet message for their loved one.

This is a wonderful activity for your child to practice putting their thoughts on paper. They can also add flowers, hearts, and anything else that will help to make the card extra special.

Note: This activity can be used for any occasion, not just birthdays. Is it the holidays? Has the family been invited to a graduation party? Do you have a family member who’s not feeling well?

All of these are excellent opportunities to create a special card for a loved one.

7) Map Out The Story

What You’ll Need

• A blank sheet of paper
• Colored pencils (or crayons)

What To Do

The aim of this writing game is simple: create a setting for a story.

Children love when a storybook they’re reading includes some pictures and a map to bring the story to life. With this activity, they get to create their own!

All your child needs to do is draw a map of the story setting of their choosing, labeling the different areas. This can be a story they’ve read or one that’s just popped into their head. It really doesn’t matter as long as they’re excited about it.

To help them get started, you can ask prompting questions, like:

• Does your story take place on land or in water?
• If it’s on land, what and who lives on that land?
• If it takes place in water, what types of interesting creatures are there?
• What’s the weather like?
• How many characters are there?
• Where do these characters live?
• What do the characters do?
• Are there any landmarks?

Once your child is clear about the world of the story, it’s time to draw and create it. Now you can also help your child write a story that takes place in their invented world.

For this activity, we’re not expecting incredible artwork or penmanship. Instead, the main focus is to have kids practice gripping pens or pencils and writing.

Writing Games For Second Graders

8) Grocery List Writing

What You’ll Need

• A piece of paper for making your list
• A pen or pencil

What To Do

Make the task of writing your grocery list into a game!

You can do this as part of a make-believe or role-playing game with your child, or you can create a real grocery list together before the shopping gets done.

Try planning out some meals for the week ahead, and then make a list with your child for each of the ingredients needed. Explain that writing a list helps us to remember all the things we need to buy, and discuss what items you might need to purchase.

Keep it simple and help your child by sounding out words as they write. Once the list is written, your child can enjoy checking off each item one by one after it’s been put in the cart!

9) Household I-Spy

What You’ll Need

• Two pieces of paper, one for you and one for your child
• Two pens or pencils, one for you and one for your child
• A timer or timer app

What To Do

One of our favorite writing games is this version of I-Spy with a twist!

Grab your paper and write each letter of the alphabet down the left-hand side. Once you and your child have both written the alphabet on your paper, set your timer for 10 minutes.

You’ll then race from room to room to find and write down as many objects as possible that begin with each letter of the alphabet. Write each object next to its corresponding letter and fill in as many as you can within the time limit.

You could also set a handicap for this writing game to raise the stakes! For example, if your child’s time limit is 10 minutes, cut yours in half so that you have to find as many objects as possible in five minutes.

10) Accordion Storytelling

What You’ll Need

• A sheet of paper
• Pen
• Ruler

What To Do

The first player will start the story at the top of your clean sheet of paper by writing two sentences on separate lines. They can write about any topic they want.

When they’re done writing, they’ll need to fold the paper over the first sentence and pass the paper on to the next player. This means that the first sentence won’t be seen. The next writer will only be able to see the second sentence on the page.

This player will need to write their own two sentences based on the line they can see. After that, they’ll fold down the first line of what they wrote and pass it on to the next player, too. The paper will continue to be passed around and folded like an accordion.

The round ends once all the paper has been folded up, and there’s no space left to write. Once you’ve reached this stage, open it up and read the story aloud together.

What interesting story did you come up with? Get ready to have a good laugh!

Note: You can take turns reading one sentence each, or you can nominate one person to read the whole story to everyone.

This is a great game to play with the whole family or even just two people, although it is the most fun with at least three people. And it will encourage creativity and writing skills.

11) Pen Pal Writing

What You’ll Need

• Paper
• Pens or pencils
• A pen pal

What To Do

Writing letters to pen pals is very traditional. In a nutshell, it involves two people in a long-distance friendship who communicate by writing letters to each other.

Now, with the advancement of technology, very few people still do this via snail mail. But it can be a great way to encourage children to write.

Who can your child write to? They can choose a friend who’s moved schools, a cousin who lives in another state, or their grandparents. It can be anyone they’d like to send a message to!

This is a fun way to help children learn about mailing letters and how the postal system works. They also get to create memories and can keep the letters their pen pal writes to reflect on for years to come!

12) Rewrite The Ending

What You’ll Need

• Paper
• Pen or pencils
• Storybook

What To Do

Children will need to exercise their imaginations to play this game.

To get started, read a book aloud to your child. (This can be an old favorite or a new story.) Once you’ve finished reading, encourage them to create their own version of the ending.

It can be challenging for children to imagine their favorite stories in a different way, so you might need to help your child think outside the box:

• What if the frog never turned into a prince but into a big elephant instead?
• What if the three little pigs learned karate and decided to fight the wolf?
• Could the little mermaid have a twin sister she just discovered?

This activity lets your child exercise their imagination while also practicing their writing skills. If this is done with multiple children, it will be fun to see what exciting versions of the script each child comes up with.

Enjoy Learning To Write With HOMER!

We hope you’ve found some new favorite writing games from our activities in this guide!

From creating sensory play activities with sand and fingerpaints to writing a grocery list together, there are so many ways to get creative with your child and make writing a fun shared activity.

For even more writing fun, unbox a learning adventure with our Explore Letters Kit. Watch your child build their literacy skills, using their imagination to lead them through a variety of writing and spelling activities!

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Games at the lessons of writing and literary reading during the period of learning to read and write

Games. Literacy Application

Material for games and their content can be changed according to the requirements teacher and student opportunities. It is desirable to illustrate each games and the use of various toys (ball, doll, etc.).

Brief description of didactic games used in the process of teaching schoolchildren (adaptive stage of schooling)

Game 1. "Half a word is yours"

Purpose: Develop the speech of schoolchildren, replenish vocabulary, develop phonemic hearing.

Contents: The teacher pronounces the beginning of the word (name of the subject), students finish word. Words can be selected on certain topics, it is possible to use illustrations. Work can be carried out in pairs and frontally.

Game 2. "Describe the subject"

Purpose: Acquaintance with the concepts of "properties and features of objects", the formation of skills guess the object by its characteristics.

Contents: The teacher or student conceives the subject, others ask suggestive questions, trying to guess what was planned by the signs.

Game 3. "I know"

Goals: The development of students' speech, vocabulary replenishment, the development of observation and attention.

Contents: The teacher (child), using the ball, pronounces the following text, rhythmically hitting the ball on the floor:

- I know five names of boys:

Sasha - times,

Dima - two,

Igor - three,

Denis - four,

Volodya - five.

Next the ball is passed to the next player. He names the following five items. it can be any items (toys, flowers, trees, etc.).

Game 4. “Guess what you showed” (pantomime)

Purpose: Develop attention, observation, speech, patience. nine0007

Contents: The person who wishes depicts an object (living or inanimate) without uttering any sounds. The rest are trying to guess what is depicted. Can be used for pantomimes of several comers.

Game 5. "Decipher the letter"

Purpose: The development of observation, attention, the ability to focus on finding the necessary letters or syllables.

Contents: The teacher encrypts the letters with any icons or drawings and, using these notation, "writes" the word. Children try to guess the word by finding icons with the letters they represent. nine0007

Game 6. "Who is better"

Game is organized on the basis of game 5, where the children themselves encrypt the words using icons provided by the teacher. Solving words together, finding out who is better managed to encrypt the word.

Game 7. "Who is more observant"

Purpose: Consolidation of knowledge about letters and sounds, search for letters in the text, development of attention and observation.

Contents: The teacher offers the children a text where students find the chosen by the teacher letter. nine0007

Game 8. "Compose a fairy tale about the subject."

Purpose: The development of students' speech, vocabulary replenishment.

Contents: The teacher or children choose any subject and try to compose together a fairy tale about adventures of this subject.

Game 9. "Day - night"

Purpose: The development of students' speech, the ability to focus on finding the necessary concept.

Contents: The teacher calls the word, the children - the opposite in meaning: “Day is night, sweet - sour", etc.

Game 10. "Make friends with the letter"

Children combine sounds into syllables orally, and in writing - write down pairs of letters (syllables - mergers)

Game 11. "We're going to visit"

Children divided into groups: hosts and guests. "Hosts" must meet "guests" using "magic words". "Guests respond in kind."

Game 12. "Make a word"

Children make up words from the syllables suggested by the teacher. Syllables can be bright and colorful illustrated. For example, in the form of balls or flowers, which must be assembled into one bundle or bouquet. nine0007

Game 13. Put it in order

Suggested a series of illustrations related to the same topic, but arranged incorrectly. Children should determine which of the illustrations depicts what happened earlier or later, i.e. arrange in order.

Game 14. “Fabulous possessions of the Rainbow. Describe"

Children describe the objects surrounding them, using knowledge of the colors of the rainbow, trying Describe the subject as clearly as possible. nine0007

Game 15. Hammers

Children "tap" the rhythm of the words, striking each vowel sound in the words pronounced teacher, with a stick on the table, highlighting the percussive sound. The game helps to fix knowledge of vowel sounds and stress.

Game 16. "The letter got lost"

Children must “fix” the words where the letters are messed up by putting them in their place.

Game contributes to the development of attention, observation, as well as the development of phonemic hearing. nine0007

Game 17. “Time got angry and left. Catch up»

Children transform phrases, words, sentences using the categories “before, after, then, now". Make up your own sentences, correct incorrectly constructed phrases that suggested by the teacher.

Game 18. "When it happens"

Children guess the season (spring, summer, winter, autumn) according to the changes in nature indicated teacher. During the game, time categories are repeated. Possible use illustrations.

Game 19. "Bells"

Meaning The game is to search for voiced consonants in the words pronounced by the teacher. Children depict bells that ring for each voiced consonant sound. The game contributes to the development of attention and phonemic hearing of children. nine0007

Game 20. "Correct mistakes"

Meaning the game is to search for sounds or letters that were incorrectly indicated by the fabulous guest (Dunno, Pinocchio). The game is illustrated.

Game 21. "Words"

Teacher asking questions what? who? which? what is he doing? other. Children find words that answer to the question asked. The game uses a ball passed to the responding children. nine0007

Game 22. "Knots for memory"

Children tie knots each on their own string, remembering the rules, questions, sounds and letters. Everything is commented out loud. The material is selected by the teacher.

Development exercises speech

Development of hearing.

If the child is weak in hearing sounds, distorted pronounces or replaces them with others, he will not be able to clearly imagine the sound form of the word itself. In this case, you will need the following group exercises. nine0007

Exercise #1. "Name the Words" (for development of auditory differentiation).

Task #1.
"Name as many words as possible that begin with the sound A" (T, O, P, K, etc. ).

Task #2.
"Name as many words as possible that end with the sound P" (I, O, S, L, etc.).

Task #3.
"Name as many words as possible that have the sound L in the middle" (N, E, D, B, F, etc.).

Exercise #2. "Clap clap" (learning the sound analysis of the word). nine0007

This exercise also has several options.

1. "Now I will call you the words, and you, as soon as you hear the word, which begins with the sound C (B, O, G, D, W, etc.), you immediately slam into hands".

Option: the child must "catch" the sound to which the word ends, or a sound in the middle of a word.

Dacha, cat, hat, fox, road, beetle, window, lump, plate, bread, rain, linden, lamp, river, hair, etc.

2. "Now I will call you words, and you, as soon as If you hear a word that has a K sound, clap your hands 1 time. If you hear in word sound G - clap 2 times. "

It is better to start the exercise at a slow pace, gradually increasing the speed.

Cow, jelly, mountain, mink, guitar, boot, bitch, hand, caught up, pushed, etc.

This exercise will also help you check how your child is doing with reaction.

Exercise #3. "Playing with the word" (learning the sound image of the word).

Task #1.
"Come up with a word that starts / ends with the same sound as in the word "frog", "flag", "table", etc.".

Task #2.
"What is the first / last sound in the word 'ray', "power", "sofa", etc.".

Task No. 3.
"Name all the sounds in order in the word "sky", "cloud", "roof", etc.".

Task No. 4.
"What sound in the word "fish" is the second, fourth, first, third? (chair, carpet, shell, cloud), etc.".

Exercise No. 4. "Confusion".

"Listen carefully to the poem.

Ask the child: "Which words got mixed up? Why? How are these words similar to each other? How are they different?"

You can give a little hint to the child, but the main thing is to lead him to the idea that one sound can completely change the meaning of a word. nine0007

Exercise #5. "Come up with a new word".

Task: "I will now tell you a word, and you try change the second sound in it so that a new word is obtained. For example: house - smoke.
Words to change: sleep, juice, drank, chalk.
Words to change the first sound: dot, bow, varnish, day, pedal, layout.
Words to change the last sound: cheese, dream, bough, poppy, stop

Exercise No. 6. "Circle"

It will be useful if the child cannot write

Task: "Now we will write some words, but not in letters, but in circles. How many sounds in a word, so many circles you will draw. say the word "poppy". How many circles should be drawn? Three".

Sample: MAC - 000

Attention: when choosing words for the exercise, try to keep the number of sounds in them matched the number of letters. So, in the word "horse" there are 4 letters, and the sound three - [k - o - n ']. Such words can cause difficulties for the child.

Words for dictation: grass, paper, pen, roll, stick, camomile, star, pine, phone, tablet. nine0007

Exercise #7. "Longer-shorter".

Task: "Now we will compare words. I will say two words, and you decide which one is longer. Just remember that words should be compared, not the things they stand for. You know, do not you, that the word is not the thing. Take the word "nose" for example. It can be say, but you can write - but you can’t breathe with it, it’s just a word. And real you can breathe through your nose, but you can’t write or read it."

Words for comparison: table - table, pencil - pencil, antennae - mustache, dog - dog, tail - tail, snake - snake, worm - worm. nine0007

Vocabulary development.

The quality and quantity of the child's vocabulary in many ways determine the level of speech development in general. It is very important for you to pay attention to passive (that is, those words that are stored in the memory reserve), and active (words that are constantly used) vocabulary. Highly it is important that the child knows what meanings the word has, knows how to correctly use it in independent speech. This will help offered here exercises.

Exercise #8. "Word game".

Task #1 .
"Name as many words as you can for fruits" (vegetables, trees, flowers, wild and domestic animals and birds, toys, tools, furniture, professions, etc.).

Task #2.

"Now I will tell you the words, and you will tell me what this the subject can do.
Snowstorm - sweeps, and thunder - ..., wind - ..., and snow - ..., rain - ..., and sun - ....

Do not forget to ask with each answer: "What else does the sun do, it not only shines?" Let the child pick up as many words as possible, denoting action. nine0007

Then you can repeat the same game in reverse: “Who flies? Who swims? Who hammers nails? Who catches mice?"

Exercise No. 9. "Sign".

Task No. 1.

"Tell me, if the object is made of iron, then what is it called, what him?"

iron -
paper -
wood -
snow -
fluff -
glass -

Task No. 2.

"Name another object as white as snow."
(Same narrow as a ribbon; as fast as a river; as round, like the ball; as yellow as a melon). nine0007

Task #3.

"Compare:
in taste - lemon and honey, onion and apple;
in color - cloves and chamomile, pear and plum;
in strength - rope and thread, stone and clay;
in width - road and path, river and stream;
in height - a bush and a tree, a mountain and a hill.

Exercise number 10. "Guess".

Task: "Guess the riddle:

It flies, it squeaks,
It drags long legs,
It won't miss a chance -
It sits down and bites.
(Komar)

Round, striped,
Taken from the garden.
Sugar and scarlet steel -
Please eat.
(Watermelon)

How did you guess what it was about? Try to describe to me some object, and I'll try to guess who or what it is."

Exercise No. 11. "Friend words" (an exercise on synonyms).

Task #1.

"What else do you think you can say about a sad person?" (sad)
"Valuable - what is it? Hard - what is it?"

Task #2.

"What word can replace the word "horse"? The word "doctor", "cup", "food"?"

Task No. 3.

"Which word is superfluous, does not fit with other words? Why?"

Sad, sad, dull, deep
Brave, sonorous , bold, courageous
Weak, brittle, long , fragile

Strong, strong, far0007

If the child does not understand the meaning of a word, explain his.