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.]
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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:
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!
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