VOCABOPOLY!

In my last post I promised that I would post instructions for creating a VOCABOPOLY game board and directions for how to play the game. Here's the game board:

**I found my copy of my VOCABOPOLY game today in a stack on my posters looking a little tired.  I will be making new game boards for this school year and will be posting them soon!

To create the game board you will need one piece of poster board, dice, some play money and player game pieces such as small erasers or small shapes cut out of construction paper.  I will give you some links to printable money later in the instructions.  

Since I teach Language Arts, all of my spaces have to do with Language Arts terminology.  These spaces could be easily changed for other subject areas.  There are 2 different types of spaces that students can land on that will require them to draw a card from one of two stacks in the center of the board.  SPELLING BEE (has a little bee) requires the students to spell the vocabulary word correctly.  SENTENCE SHOWDOWN (has a cowboy hat) requires the student to say a sentence that correctly uses the vocabulary word.

I will list what I have in each space starting with the GO space.

- Collect $200 lunch money as you pass GO

- Metaphor Avenue

- Sentence Showdown

- Simile Place

- Spelling Bee

- Sentence Showdown

- Future Tense Avenue

- Spelling Bee

- Present Tense Place

- Past Tense Drive

- In D-Hall Just visiting

- Definition Place

- Sentence Showdown

- Alphabet Alley

- Dictionary Drive

- Spelling Bee

- Adverb Drive

- Sentence Showdown

- Noun Place

- Verb Avenue

- Free Lunch

- Paragraph Place

- Spelling Bee

- Sentence Place

- Word Avenue

- Sentence Showdown

- Pronoun Place

- Preposition Avenue

- Synonym Drive

- Go to D-Hall

- Clause Avenue

- Conjunction Drive

- Sentence Showdown

- Syllable Avenue

- Spelling Bee

- Sentence Showdown

- Singular Avenue

- Spelling Bee

- Plural Avenue

In the center of the game board I have two rectangles.  One says SENTENCE SHOWDOWN and the other says SPELLING BEE.  I used perforated business cards to create the cards to go in these two sections.  The SENTENCE SHOWDOWN cards have SENTENCE SHOWDOWN and a cowboy hat on one side and a vocabulary word and a dollar amount on the other side.  SPELLING BEE cards have SPELLING BEE and a bee on one side and a vocabulary word and dollar amount on the other side.  

Dollar amounts are $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, and $500.

How to play the game:

Each student rolls the dice to determine who goes first.  The student that rolls the highest number goes first and then play moves to the player on the left.  

The first player rolls the dice and moves their game piece the number of spaces that he or she rolled.  

If the player lands on a property, they do nothing.  It's just a free landing spot.

If the player lands on SPELLING BEE, the student to the left of the player picks up a card from the SPELLING BEE stack and reads the work to the student that is in play.  The student that is in play then has to correctly spell the word.  If he or she spells the word correctly, they are to collect the dollar amount listed on the card.  If he or she spells the word incorrectly then they do not collect any money.  The card is placed on the bottom of the stack.

If the player lands on SENTENCE SHOWDOWN, the student that is in play picks up a card from the SENTENCE SHOWDOWN stack and reads the word to the other players.  The student that is at play then must make up a sentence using the word on the card and say the sentence out loud.  It is up to the group of players to determine if the word was used correctly in the sentence.  If the word was used correctly, the player collect the dollar amount listed on the card.  If he or she uses the word incorrectly then they do not collect any money.  The card is placed on the bottom of the stack.

Play continues until time is called by the teacher.

You can print a blank game board with the squares already drawn in by going here.

You can print blank money by going here.

I'd love to hear if you use VOCABOPOLY in your classroom!