Scrumble Activities
Scrumble Activities are language activities designed to build literacy skills.
Students are required to manipulate textual elements to construct words. The students require phonic skills, graphical awareness and problem solving skills to build a bank of words.
Problem solving skills are necessary to regenerate the word grid to create a complete word bank using all the tiles.
Instructions
The students receive a printed sheet of scrumble letter tiles. The complexity can be matched to the student’s ability. The more tiles, the more complex the word list.
The student uses scissors to cut the scrumble tiles from the sheet. The tiled letters are manipulated to form words.
All tiles must be used to create a complete list of words.
Once the word grid is completed, the student should glue the tiles onto a sheet.
Worksheets that Work
The idea is to use all the scrumble tiles. The student will need to reshuffle often looking for word combinations that go together.
This could well be the focus of a lesson itself. You could use this as prerequisite lesson or as a subsequent lesson once you determine the class skills.
What makes this great for Relief Teaching?
Literacy and numeracy based activities are perfect for your relief teaching gigs.
Literacy and Numeracy as "givens" for most students. They know they have to master these skills. This gives you authenticity (See Module 2 of The Essentials)
Using Scrumble Activities in your Relief Teaching Classroom
As far as relief teaching language activities go, Scrumble activities have a lot to offer. Scrumbles comes from a word combination from SCRabble and jUMBLES
The skills required are much the same.
This activity starts of with a great activity to start at the door. (See Module 1 of Solutions) This activity would be a great language activity to settle the class. I also find that is the students play a part of being involved, they have a greater commitment to the learning task.
Scrumbles require that students cut out the tiles to set up the task. They own the tiles and are usually more committed to the outcomes.
The complete Scrumble series of booklets is now available!
