Learning Through Games: Lickety Quick

Summary: Lickety Quick is a speedy word game where players think up answers that fit the given starting sound and part of speech or syllable number.

Number of Players: 2 or more

Recommended Age: 8+

Skills Addressed:

• Spelling
• Parts of speech
• Counting syllables
• Quick thinking

Link to Learning:

• Ask students to find more than one answer to each card set.
• Challenge students to see who can write down the most answers in each set, check spelling.
• Create your own set with new categories, e.g. “with 7 letters.”
• Using only the category cards, answer only with words from the class list.
• For a foreign language class, answer in that language.