Description
The Noisy Games is a game that touches all other topics and skills learned Language Level 1 (and even a bit of Level 2)! It’s a very simple game that people of all ages can play and enjoy, which can practice language on several different levels.
The Code Cards display an illustration, as well as how to break that word into syllables/phonics/letters. The card basically says “this creature means A, that creature means D, and so forth”. The player whose turn it is now has to create a new word with that code. They arrange the monsters to display it and give a hint.
Everyone else must guess what the hint means and what word you wrote. In so doing, they try to “crack the code”, and guess what each creature represents. The more people guess right, the more points you score. But if you made it too easy, and everyone got it right, then you get nothing!
This extra step of creating a “code” (through cute recognizable monsters) makes it all possible. It means players don’t have to know the alphabet yet, or know many words, and they can all play and communicate through them.
- If everyone understands letters, you can play the codes such that every Noisy Tongue represents a letter.
- If everyone merely understands phonics (“sounds in a word”), you can make every Noisy Tongue represent a phonic.
- If everyone merely understands syllables, the Noisy Tongues can represent syllables.
Once everyone is familiar enough with the game, you can ditch the Code Cards entirely and let everyone make up their own codes!
Fun Fact: The Noisy Tongues are fun creatures (with prominent tongues …) known from our early-language story The Noisy Tongues.
Details
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Product Contents
- Rulebook for the game (1 page base game, 1 page expansions, 1 page explaining how to modify the game to suit different needs, 2 pages phoneme cheat sheet)
- Material PDF (code cards + noisy tongue characters to cut out; 1 pdf in color, 1 pdf ink friendly)
- The Material Generator (open in any browser) to generate your own PDFs with your preferred settings!
Fine Details
| Detail | Value |
| Age | 4 |
| Categories | words, syllable-awareness, phoneme-awareness, alphabet |
| Duration | 20 |
| Language | en |
| Level | 1 |
| Player Count | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Subject | language |
| Textless | true |
Subject: Language
The curriculum is split into six main subjects that align with your typical school subjects.
This resource is part of the Language subject. Below is a summary:
This subject teaches the English language! From an Apprentice’s first utterances to being able to read any book and write their own stories.
Faction: Gamiverses
This resource is part of the Gamiverses Faction.
But that's just one way to teach and explore its topic(s)!
You can always move to a different Faction to find a more effective way to teach the same topic.
Played a quiz? Try a game! Played a game? Try an escape room! And so on.
For example,
Spell: My First Sounds
This resource is part of the My First Sounds topic (or "spell").
The first step towards learning any language.
This resource also covers other topics. To keep things simple, the curriculum always considers the first topic listed to be the most important.
Use the buttons below to navigate to the previous or next topic in the curriculum.