Tic tac toe

Tres en línea

Games have always helped me engage students and hold them accountable to review the material at home. Tic tac toe, or tres en línea, is a lovable classic that can be adapted to any topic! Set up time is minimal so you get to start playing right away!
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K-8: A few years ago when I taught K-8, my first graders had a wonderful time getting to play a classic, while adding a Spanish twist to it!  They were learning some basic descriptions using ser + adjectives. So for example, I asked those who were Xs, ¿Cómo te llamas? What is your name? and before they could have a turn they had to answer "Me llamo ____". My name is _____. 

Other rounds required students to look at a card that showed pictures of vocabulary words we have used and tell me what they were in Spanish.

At the end, students were asked harder questions. They had to create descriptions. So when a green card with a purple #3 was shown, students would tell me "El tres es morado y verde", The #3 is green and purple.

We had a great time and it was fun to see them so excited about the game but also about answering correctly!

High school:  Think your high schoolers are too old for this game? Think again!  This week, my high schoolers needed to review the regular preterit from last trimester in order to get started incorporating some irregular preterit verbs into our conversations.

I brought the game out and they loved it!  Out theme for this unit was vacations and traveling. So, I would ask them a question like "¿Qué hiciste en tus vacaciones de primavera?" and in partners they would share a verb. Once the verb was selected they had to conjugate it correctly before being able to place their X or O on the board!

As always their competitive nature took over and we ended up with an impromptu winner and losers bracket to see who the ultimate preterit champ was!  This all took us 10 minutes since they have been reviewing =D

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