Dictionary Game - an enjoyable challenge

 I came up with this idea while trying to teach my children how to use the dictionary to look up words. (It turned out to be so much fun- and challenging, they play it now, well into their teens.) Of course, nowadays not many people use dictionaries, unless they are online versions. Online dictionaries do not give the user a sense of place and location of words. Not being able to alphabetize to the third , fourth and fifth letter leaves a person with a handicap as well as a gap in their learning. I believe the Dictionary Game helps to prevent and/or rectify the problem of
Alphabetiziation Ignorance(A-I).

Step 1: Materials

Materials:
• One or more players
• Hard copy of a dictionary – (level depends on the age of the players. Chose a dictionary that will be challenging but not overwhelming. )
• Paper and pencil for all participants.
• List of words . (words could be spelling/vocab list, or words you decide on arbitrarily. Make sure the words are not in alphabetical order. (You may want to alphabetize them for younger children.)

Comments

[MadBricoleur]

You could do this for a Bible game, too. Good idea!

[sheilamommy]

Thanks for your suggestion. What a great idea!

[Anykey]

It should be 64 dude lol

[sunshiine]

Thanks for sharing and have a splendorous day!
Sunshiine

[sheilamommy]

thanks. You have a splendorous day also. In Maryland we are having a gorgeous beginning to spring!

[WakeUpWolfgang]

I do see a flaw in the scoring of the game lets say the word is jinx. (like in your example) If you knew it was on page 658 and you had a score of 42 the you could say the number 616 then your score would be 0. If I would do this game I would just keep adding to the score even if it is below the actual page.

Other then that I think this is a good game and I wished my teaches knew about this and had us play it when I was a kid.

[sheilamommy]

Thanks for commenting. The game does encourage one to keep adding to the score. I apologize if I did not make it clear enough. Enoy!

[sheilamommy]

thanks for the comment and suggestion. Feel free to tweak it to make it work for you. Sorry it has taken so long to respond.

[Teensy Doodles]

Cool!:D

[sheilamommy]

Thanks for your comment.