•Create clues (words, pictures, or a combination of the two) in each matrix cell, with more difficult clues corresponding to higher point values.

•Organize students into teams with one clue giver and one or more guessers.
•Have teams sit so that clue givers face the game board and guessers face the opposite direction.

•Reveals one category on the game board at a time. 

•Teams compete to determine who answers all questions in the pyramid first.

•Organize students into teams and have each team designates one team member as the talker. 

•Give a card to each talker.
•The talker tries to get his or her team to say each of the words on the card by quickly describing them BUT the talker cannot…

•Use the category.

•Use rhyming words.

•Use any form of the word.

•Act it out.

•Organize students into two teams.  

•Students take turns being the responder for their team. 
•The teacher presents a question to a responder who has fifteen seconds to confer with team members and identify the team’s answer. 

•The responder tells the team’s answer to the teacher.

•Students are presented with the clues.

•They work in teams to determine the “magic letter” by solving the clues.

•Use pairs of notecards to write a vocabulary term on one and the meaning of the word on another.

•Students play “memory” by laying all the cards face down and trying to find “matches.” 

•Teams receive points based on how quickly they create categories and the utility of their categories