Using letter tiles in the classroom has a surprising number of benefits for your students. Plus they will love playing these engaging and exciting activities.
Spell and Score – A Letter Tile Adding Game
To play this Spell and Score Activity, students can work in pairs or individually. Ask them to choose ten words from their spelling list, a dictionary or a word wall, and record the words on the worksheet. Encourage students to spell each word using the word tiles and calculate the score for each one.
Challenge students to calculate their total score for all ten words and verify their answer using a calculator.
Making Words
In pairs, students are provided with seven tiles each. The aim of this activity is for them to create as many words as possible in a certain time frame.
Challenge your students to see who can get the highest-scoring word!
You could use the mini letter tiles from the Spell and Score Activity, or you can download our printable Giant Letter Tiles and print the download 16 pages per sheet.
Classroom Word Grid
Have you ever played the game Boggle? You can play a similar word game by creating a classroom word grid. It’s lots of fun and definitely gets the mind going!
This is a great fast-finisher activity or warm-up activity for your students.
- Use the Giant Letter Tiles with Numbers or our Word Twist – Word Building Game tiles to set up a grid for students to try and find words.
- The students find words by ‘chaining’ letters together.
- Challenge your students by setting a timer and getting your students to find as many words as they can in the word grid.
Parts of Speech Activity
In pairs, students are provided with two sets of tiles. The teacher calls out “adjective”, “noun” or “verb” and each pair needs to create a word that falls into that category. Who can do it the quickest?
To challenge your students, get them to write down the words have created and then put their words into sentences.
Classroom Crosswords
In small groups, play a simple game creating a crossword! The object of the game is to get the most points by adding new words that can be connected to the words already created by fellow classmates.
Encourage your students to have a dictionary handy to help them out with words or to simply confirm words played.
- To begin the game, encourage each student to pick a letter tile from the pile. The player with the letter that is closest to A gets to go first.
- Each player then picks 7 letter tiles.
- The person who goes first places a word down using the letter tiles.
- The next person then has to create a word using at least one of the letters from the first player.
- Each time a player plays letters they need to pick up the same amount of tiles as they put down from the letter tile pile.
The game is over when all the tiles are gone or if players cannot play any more words. Each player is responsible for recording their word totals on a piece of paper to work out the winner of the game.
Letter Tile Printables
To get started playing these fun letter tile games in your classroom check out our letter tile printables!
- The Spell and Score – Word Tile Game download includes the mini-word tiles we have used in the photos above. Simply photocopy them onto colored paper!
- You can also download our Giant Letter Tiles with Numbers. This download includes one tile per page, which you can use for large classroom displays, or print 16 pages per sheet to create your own mini letter tiles with numbers.
- We also have the Word Twist – Word Building Game tiles that include blends and digraphs.
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