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Match Mine: Language Builder
In the Closet
Download this cooperative barrier game to teach your students vocabulary and communication skills using the structure Match Mine. Each partner receives a game board with a closet and clothes game pieces to place on the game board. Partners sit on opposite sides of a barrier so they can’t see each other’s game board or game pieces. Partner A arranges the clothes game pieces in each compartment of the closet game board. Then, using only verbal communication, Partner A describes to Partner B which clothing game piece goes in each part of the closet so they can make a match. For example, “Put the hats in the upper right corner of the closet.” When they think they have a match, they compare arrangements and celebrate. This set teaches common closet vocabulary such as: pants, tie, belt, etc. Match Mine is a fun and cooperative way to develop language, communication, cooperation, and perspective-taking skills.
Teach vocabulary and communication skills with this cooperative game. Partners sit on opposite sides of a barrier. Each has a game board and game pieces copied from this book. For example, each student receives a zoo game board and zoo animal game pieces. One student places her animals in the empty spots on the zoo game board. Now here's the challenge: Through talking only, that student must describe how she arranged her animals in the zoo so her partner can ?match? the layout. As students try to make a match (?place the zebra in the bottom space that has the tree on the right side?), they must communicate clearly using the target vocabulary. Book includes 30 games focusing on must-know vocabulary including: animals, food, clothes, transportation, weather, sports, human body, and many more. 136 pages.