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Let me explain these three games to you. “Hanging With Friends” is essentially Hangman, and you are given 5 balloons that you are hanging from. Each time you don’t guess a word correctly (you’re given only 5 letters that you can get wrong), one of your balloons will pop. The first one to fall loses. “Scramble With Friends” is basically a 4 by 4 grid with random letters, and you have to find words within the grid, and you receive points for different combinations. “Words With Friends” is exactly like scrabble. You get 7 letters, and have to make words off of other words played by your friend playing, and you receive a certain amount of points per turn. Each letter has a different amount of points, and sometimes you can land on a “bonus” part of the playing board and get more points that way.
ANYWAYS. These game have helped my vocabulary. I wasn’t at all expecting to learn new words because my memory tends to quickly forget stuff that I’m not interested in. BUT, since the games “suck me into the fun” I pay attention more because they interest me. I am very competitive, and like winning. I want to know how whomever I am playing against came up with such a funky looking word. So, I study the word and sometimes they are words I have never heard of. I’ll message them and ask “What kind of word is that??” and they tell me, or I’ll just look it up myself. But truthfully I am lazy sometimes and don’t do either of those, but I do ponder upon the word and wonder what it means. What normally happens then is I start to recognize the new funky looking word, and see or hear it in different places. Even though I may not know the meaning of it, seeing and hearing it in different scenarios helps me puzzle together what it may mean by seeing it in different contexts. It helps me recognize new words which is helpful for me! Just recognizing them is a start, and many times I am able to figure out what it means. Cool, huh?
ANYWAYS. These game have helped my vocabulary. I wasn’t at all expecting to learn new words because my memory tends to quickly forget stuff that I’m not interested in. BUT, since the games “suck me into the fun” I pay attention more because they interest me. I am very competitive, and like winning. I want to know how whomever I am playing against came up with such a funky looking word. So, I study the word and sometimes they are words I have never heard of. I’ll message them and ask “What kind of word is that??” and they tell me, or I’ll just look it up myself. But truthfully I am lazy sometimes and don’t do either of those, but I do ponder upon the word and wonder what it means. What normally happens then is I start to recognize the new funky looking word, and see or hear it in different places. Even though I may not know the meaning of it, seeing and hearing it in different scenarios helps me puzzle together what it may mean by seeing it in different contexts. It helps me recognize new words which is helpful for me! Just recognizing them is a start, and many times I am able to figure out what it means. Cool, huh?
Honestly, learning vocabulary in school is way harder to remember than the word games I play. In school, I am given a lesson of ten words each week, and have to complete a worksheet of the ten words to practice using them. After we are given three lessons, we have a test on it. I know, ew! Not offense English teachers, but I really don’t learn the vocabulary because it’s not fun or interesting to me. Sorry. It’s not you, it’s me :-D. I’ll memorize them for the test, but wouldn’t be able to pass that same test three days after. I’m not saying if you were to quiz me on the words in the word games I play that I would remember all of those, but I am learning and recognizing new words from the game which is pretty cool!
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These games are fun, but they also have helped me recognize new words and sometimes I am able to puzzle what they mean out after seeing and hearing the same weird words in different scenarios. It’s FUN! Get playing :-D
Did you have any problems as a young child with reading. Our APD son struggles with reading tremendously...any programs or suggestions...he is 8 but reads on a much younger level. He can memorize..sight words etc..but then to read many simple words in a new book that he has not memorized yet...struggles big time. Fluency is hard...
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