Letter Card Competition

This card game tests teamwork, tempo, and intellect. It’s where speed meets Scrabble, and it’s a whole lot of fun.

Divide students into teams of three. Give each team a deck of 26 index cards—each card has one letter of the alphabet on it. Start Round 1 by reading a vocabulary word. Teams must sort through their cards to find the letters they need to spell the word and place the cards in the correct order in front of them. If a word uses the same letter more than once, students can use the blank side of an unused card to represent the second or third instance of that letter.

The first team to correctly spell the word and raise their hands wins one point. Play as many rounds as you have vocabulary words.