The final game I played for this blog is called Paralaughs. It's on the ever-profilic Mr. Nussbaum site which is filled with games for all types of subjects and ages.
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/paralaughsindex.htm
Curriculum Connection: Students in 4th grade are expected to identify parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns.
Game Overview: Paralaughs is basically Mad Libs on line. Students choose a topic. I chose Mammals. Then, a list of parts of speech are given and the player gives a word for each part of speech. After the list is complete, the player hits Submit. The words the player gave are incorporated into a story or paragraph to varying degrees of humor depending on how silly/grotesque the words are. My students would enjoy this as a diversion in class, though there is no way to guarantee that they will actually supply words that are the correct parts of speech. Since the paragraph doesn't make sense anyway, I don't think they'd realize if they had made a mistake.
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