A Homemade PowerPoint GameBy

Whitney SmithUniversity of Georgia

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The Story of the “Let’s Go Shopping!”

Ella Sarah needs your help! She needs to go shopping to get some new clothes! Her mom likes for her to wear dresses and her dad likes for her to wear t-shirts and shorts and her sister wants her to wear her old clothes that don’t fit her anymore. But Ella Sarah has her own style and she likes picks out her own clothes. There is just one problem though, she needs to go to the mall and pick out some new clothes and she needs your help getting there. If you can just answer some simple questions about rhyming words, you could get her to the mall in no time! So do you think you can help Ella Sarah? Great! Let’s get started!

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Game DirectionsThe goal of the game is to get to the mall

first. To play the game you will roll one dice and then answer a question. You must get the question correct to move the number of spaces shown on the dice. If you get the question incorrect you may not move ahead. Each space you land on will tell you what to do. Whoever makes it to the mall first wins! *Be sure to click on the box of the correct answer, not on the word, to be sure that it tells you if you are correct or incorrect!

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•Game board: Print out slide 7 •Game pieces: print off and cut out from slide 6

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Time to play “Let’s Go Shopping”!

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The player should choose one piece to move around the board. When the players answers a question correctly they get to move ahead the number of spaces they rolled and do what the square tells them to do.

Question 1

Ella Sarah loves shoes! Which of the following words rhymes with shoes?

game

picture

news

flower

Question 2

Ella’s Sarah’s mom thought her outfit was too dressy. Which of the following words rhyme with dressy?

messy

daddy

messy

pocket

large

Question 3

You are trying to get to the mall, which of the following words does NOT rhyme with mall?

call

ball

hall

store

Question 4

Which of the following words rhyme with each other?

cat, hat

Red, read

Marker, purple

Look, soap

Question 5

Ella Sarah’s favorite color is blue, which of the following words rhyme with blue?

you

she

clip

pink

Question 6

Ella Sarah just got a new hat, and her cat likes to play in it. What two sentences in that sentence rhyme with each other?

__________ and __________

Question 7

Ella Sarah wants to wear her purple-and –blue striped socks. Which word below rhymes with socks?

paper

magnet

chair

blocks

Question 8

When you go shopping, you can’t forget to bring your money! Which of the following words rhyme with money?

book

honey

crayon

yellow

Question 9

Ella Sarah’s mom drives a van, which of the following words does NOT rhyme with van?

can

you

man

pan

Question 10

I like to look at books.What two words rhyme in the sentence

above?

At, to

Look, books

Like, at

I, look

Question 11

Ella Sarah has a cat named Willy, which of the following words rhyme with Willy?

silly

white

lamp

candle

Question 12

Ella Sarah loves to ride her bike, which of the following words rhymes with bike?

hikecomputer

mug lamp

Question 13

Ella Sarah’s favorite subject in school is math, what word below rhymes with math?

bath

mice

cat

bored

Question 14

Ella Sarah’s hat is red, what word below rhymes with red?

bed mine

sky pot

Question 15

Ella Sarah loves school, which of the following words rhyme with school?

cool

night she

pillow

Question 16

I have a pet mouse, which word below rhymes with mouse?

house

little

my

school

Question 17

Which of the following words does not rhyme with the others?

brother other

motherfeather

Question 18

Which of the following words rhyme with egg?

leg

cover sheet

bed

Question 19

Ella Sarah goes to bed at nine. Which word below rhymes with nine?

mine

nineteen

candle

window

Question 20

Which of the following words rhyme with sleep?

beep

bed she

kitchen

Question 21

Which of the following sets of words do NOT rhyme?

Knife, wife

You, to

Dog, hog

Mat, my

Question 22

Ella Sarah likes to play ball, which of the following words rhyme with ball?

mallwe

hat bed

Question 23

I love to cook, word below rhymes with cook?

look

candy

work

cat

Question 24

Ella Sarah has a friend named Max, which word below rhymes with Max?

wax

house flower

page

Question 25

Ella Sarah loves to get dressed, which of the following words rhymes with dressed?

messed

looked dog

outside

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CreditsAll teachers and students at non-profit schools can use, revise, or adapt this game at will at no cost on the condition that all prior designers are

cited.

• Originally designed by Whitney Smith, University of Georgia, March 28, 2007 “Let’s Go Shopping”.

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Educational Objectives• Grade Level

– Pre-K

• Subject Area Objectives– Students will be able to pick words that rhyme with each other out of

sentences, and pick a word for a list that rhymes with a given word

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Copyright• Copyright 2007 Whitney Smith

• Permission to copy this game at no cost is granted to all teachers and students of non-profit schools.

• Permission is also granted to all teachers and students of non-profit schools to make revisions to this game for their own purposes, on the condition that this copyright page and the credits page remain part of the game. Teachers and students who adapt the game should add their names and affiliations to the credits page without deleting any names already there.

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