Vocabulary Visors

Need a new way to reinforce vocabulary knowledge?  Try this cool game.  It was actually an old party game, and they've even made it into a board game now, but this one is simple.

Make visors of stapled sentence strips, write a vocabulary word on each crown.  Place the visors on everyone's heads so they can't see their own word, then have them all go around the room asking for clues for their words.  Afterward, you can switch the visors around as many times as you wish.  You can do this with ANY set of vocabulary; reading, language arts, science, social studies, math, music, foreign language, etc. It is also great for the differentiated instruction because different students can have different words suited to their skill level.  I like to do this before a big test or at the each of each reading unit.  Another good vocabulary game is vocabulary BINGO.  :)