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Creating Incredible Games that Match Story Content

Goal: English Spanish

Articulation Bilabials /b/ and /p/, velars /k/ Medial and final /s/, consonant
and /g/, final /r/, /ng/ in present clusters with /r/ and /l/, medial

progressive action words (i.e., /d/ in present progressive
‘swimming’, ‘riding’) forms (i.e., ‘nadando’,
‘montando’)

Syntax Present progressive forms, future tense,3-5 word utterances

Semantics Transportation vocabulary (car, boat, plane, etc.), categories (fruit,
animals, places), action words

Wh- questions What, who, where, when questions

Repetition of Phrase Story Games

Bear on a Bike/Oso en bicicleta, is actually one book from a series of beautifully illustrated and written
books that revolve around a bear’s journeys around and outside of his town. This particular book fits

neatly into the repetition of phrase category, and also is wonderful for targeting many basic concepts
and vocabulary. Bear on a Bike contrasts travel by land, water, and air, which lends itself to creating a
set of activities that help children compare and categorize means of transportation.

Transportation Bingo
We used the transportation vocabulary from the book to create
sets of individualized Bingo cards. Bingo cards can be used in

two ways:

1) Play bingo normally having the children call out the
vocabulary or produce phrases in order to get a chip to

cover it up: “I have a bike.”
2) Give children the cards while the story is being read to
make them pay attention very well. They cover up the

item as they appear in the story.

For vocabulary-themed stories, you can produce and play the game as part of the pre-reading
activities to give the children a rich understanding of the new words before the story even begins.

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