20% Project Blog Post 3

The next ‘Pin’ I recreated is a “Contractions Memory Game”. The purpose of this activity is to help younger elementary students improve their grammar. Before you begin, you need to decide how many contractions you are going to include in the game so you know how many cards to prepare. Once you have decided the amount, obtain two cards or pieces of paper per contraction you are going to use. On one card, write the contraction, for example, ‘won’t’. On the other card, write the two words that make the contraction, in this case, ‘will not’. As an option, you can also laminate these cards so they last longer and are not easily torn. To set up the game, mix up the cards and then line them up in a rectangle or square shape on a table or the ground.

To play, flip over two cards, one at a time. After the student picks two, they have to decide if the cards match, this is where the grammar skills come into play. If they match each other, tell the student to set them aside. If not, the student must put them back down and someone else can take a turn. The goal is to try match all the cards, or contractions, while also activating the memory senses in your brain. You want to try to remember where you placed each card after you put it back so you can find the correct match next time.

While this is a very simple game, it has many benefits. Memorization trains and challenges your brain to remember things. Actively exercising your brain in this way improves learning and cognitive abilities. The student is also engaged in practicing grammatical skills rather than just reading from a textbook. Since it is not very intensive, this activity may good to implement as a time filler or review game in the classroom.

https://www.schooltimesnippets.com/2015/08/superhero-contractions-memory-game.html