How to Play Sparkle
Reinforce spelling and memorization skills with a clever game that your students will repeatedly ask to play. In addition to educational concepts, Sparkle also teaches lessons in teamwork, taking turns and good sportsmanship. Follow these steps to get your class started.
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Instructions
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Instruct students to stand at their desks or in a large circle facing one another. Depending on the configuration, the game will progress up and down the rows or clockwise around the circle.
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Use Sparkle to practice spelling words. Select a child to start and choose a word from the week's spelling and vocabulary list. If the word is "learn," for example, the first student will say, "l." The second student will say, "e," the third will say, "a" and so on.
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Ask a student to sit down if he gives the incorrect letter or asks to hear the word and letters again because he wasn't paying attention. Tell the class to be quiet during game play to give everyone a chance to hear.
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Listen until the students have spelled the entire word correctly and then tell the next student in line to say, "Sparkle." The child who's next in line after the "Sparkle caller" must sit down and is out of the game.
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Tell the next student in line start another word and continue the game until only 1 student is standing. Consider awarding the winner with a sticker on his chart or a small prize.
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Tips & Warnings
Play Sparkle to teach other skills like memorization and simple math. If you're learning a poem in class, for example, have each student say one word or an entire line from the poem. If you're teaching basic addition facts, let students create equations as they go around the room.
