PAT Bank

Boggle Rotation (all grades)

Author:

Loreen Azevedo
Sonoma Country Day School
California

Subject:

English, Spelling, Vocabulary

Objective:

Work Creation

Materials and Preparation:

Letter Dice or Letter cards. Paper and pencil.

Student Grouping:

Random Teams of 3-5

The Play:

1. Roll the dice (5 or 6 times) or deal out five or six letter cards.

2. Students have 2 minutes to find as many words as possible using those letters.

3. At the end of the round, rotate papers to the next group for correcting.

Scoring:

1 point per correct word

Diagrams/Samples/Examples:

The letters: "a, j, b, m, r, e" might yield "mare," "jar," "are," "bar," "jamb," "jam," "ram" and so on.

Comments or Variations:

Each group has five or six dice (or letter cards). Each round is one minute and groups rotate to the next station of letters until all groups have been to all stations.