Aim of the Game:
This is another game to help children develop their retrieval skills in reading comprehension but it gets them to think about the question rather than the answer.
What do you need?
- A page from a book that all players can see. It needs to have quite a bit of writing on it so that a range of questions can be written.
- A dice with ‘who, what, when, where, why and how’ written on each face.
- Some pieces of paper.
How to Play:
- Players start by reading the page a few times so that they know what is happening in this part of the story.
- On 3,2,1, the children roll the dice and have to write a question beginning with the word that has been rolled, e.g. if I rolled ‘what’, my question might be, ‘What is the field called?
- Once written on their piece of paper, they must quickly post it through the post box.
- The first person to post their question wins (although the question needs to be checked to make sure it relates to the text).
- Decide how many rounds you want to play and the winner is the person who has posted it first the most times!
A different way around practising a skill but they are still developing it.
