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Monday, December 06, 2004

Vocabulary Building Can be Fun

Five games are the heart of Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun. WordSearch, Crossword, Hangman, Quiz, Match Game. The idea is to learn vocabulary in various categories like animals, astronomy, baseball and more. The words are very easy, which suggest it might be geared for the very young reader. The Hangman game is no Wheel of Fortune. You have seven chances to get the right letters. That's a lot when you have an answer with several words and 20-30 letters like in WOF. But what if you have a four-letter word that's an animal? Now seven guesses don't seem like all that many. I've tried the WordSearch and Hangman and they're both fun. Hangman uses a metaphor of a mouse stealing cheese from a sleeping (?) cat.

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