Monday, September 17, 2012

Boggles Your Mind


Being a word-phile [yes, I made that up], I am always attracted to activities that employ ... words! So, for several weeks now, as I traverse the Pinterest world, I have been consistently drawn to the Boggle™ boards that are popping up. Brilliant!!! Wish I had thought of that.

Since I didn't think it up, I can at least promote this wonderful idea.  Initially, I found bulletin board Boggle™ boards like these:





These boards are awesome for early finishers, as anchor activities, and/or sponge activities.  It also occurs to me that they could be carefully manipulated to provide extra practice on word families, spelling lists, and phonics foci.  As a Reading Recovery teacher, I see potential to highlight high frequency words that my students know or know with lapses.  (That's official RR speak.)

But, the Boggle™ brilliance carries on ...  Boggle™  has found a niche in literacy centers. Brillianter!  [I made that up, too.]  







The beauty of Boggle™ centers is that you can so easily differentiate instruction for your students. Certainly you can manipulate the letters/words used in the boards, again incorporating the focus of your current instruction (short a words, words with blends, word families, content area vocabulary, ...).  Making the array larger increases the challenge, as well.  I can envision high school teachers posting 12 x 12 arrays of letters. Perhaps the chemistry teacher can place the elements in the board.

Then I came across this product:
This 30-paged set is packed with all the resources you need to have your kiddos play Boggle Math in your classroom. Boggle Math Boards put a fun tw...


Brilliantest!   

By putting numerals on your board, you can challenge your students to find equations in whatever operation you are studying.  You can ask them to find numbers with a specified number of digits; perhaps requiring a specific number in the ten's place. The potential for differentiation is huge.  

What else can you imagine in using Boggle™ math boards?

It Boggles™ the mind!



P.S.  There are 2 new collaborative board on Pinterest just for vocabulary.  I'll be camping out there for a while.  Check them out: http://pinterest.com/annfausnight/vocabulary-collaborative-board/  and
http://pinterest.com/missmartin123/word-study-ideas-k-6/


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