Word Shark

About Word Shark

• Created by • Natalie Atkinson, M.A. CCC-SLP

• totallanguageconnections@comcast.net

• Game idea adapted from:• Scholastic Vocabulary Building Card Games – Grade 3

• Click the right arrow to have the shark reveal the gameboard• Write down all the words you find• At the end of the minute, the shark will reappear

hiding the gameboard again.• Count all the letters in the words you found• Each letter = 1 point• The person with the most points wins!

How to play

• You will have 1 minute to write down as many words as you can find on the board.• Your words must have a root word and one prefix or

suffix.• You can only make words using circles that are next

to or diagonal to each other.• Go to the next slide to see some examples and

practice

How to play

Example

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Practice…

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Ready to play?

over- pay -er

pre- view -ing

-y chew -able

re- clean play

check -er -ed

-able read sign

flex -able do

check re- grow

visit play -s

y- -ing spend

check sleep -able

pre- -ed stay

re- read -able

jump -ing wear

-er freeze -ed

break -able fix

drink -er -ed

-s paint work

paint re- -er

turn -ing call

view over- sign

dis- appoint re-

kind -ed cover

-est un- pack

fair un- do

-est fold -ing

small re- paint

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accept un- protect

-ing safe -er

order -ed -er

re- test comfort

apply heat -able

sing -ing wind

-er play re-

pack over- action