Are you looking for some ways to incorporate games to make your curriculum more engaging for your children? Look no further! Here is a list of 18 different websites and apps (most of which are free!) that contain grammar or vocabulary games you can use in your homeschool.
Here’s a big list of Online English Language Games to use in your Homeschool – there are games for all ages!
- Vocabulary Spelling City: this free online vocabulary game is designed for students up to middle school and includes games like Hangmouse, a version of the classic Hangman game.
- Freerice: Help a cause while learning! Freerice comes as a website or an app where learning earns rice that is sent to countries in need
- Vocabulary.com: comes as a free website or paid-for app. With this learning resource, students can play on their own, or teachers can use it to assign specific groups of words. It gamifies learning vocabulary.
- Knoword: created for teens and up, this challenging vocabulary game works a little differently than the rest. Instead of getting choices, the student is only given the first letter of the word as a hint.
- Madtakes: a free online version of MadLibs that can be incorporated into any middle school English lesson.
- Brainpop: contains games and short lessons to learn almost any grammar concept from run-on sentences to semi-colons. Most of the grammar concepts listed have a “Sortify” game to use for practice
- Semicolon Wars: The fight for Punctuation Island: This game from Mr. Nussbaum teaches more than just semicolon usage as you progress through different levels trying to win the island.
- Extreme Sentence Surgeons Saving Critically Injured Paragraphs: Another game from Mr. Nussbaum, players perform “surgery” on paragraphs to correct mistakes and save the paragraph’s life!
- Sporcle: Sporcle contains a host of games on numerous topics. Search for “grammar games” and you’ll be sure to find one that best suits your child’s needs.
- Abcya: Like Sporcle, Abcya has a number of grammar games to pick from. One example is “Journey to Past Tense” which takes players on an adventure as they practice grammar.
- RoomRecess: has two arcade-style games that teach grammar – “Grammar Police” and “Grammar Gladiator” as well as a few other vocabulary/spelling themed games.
- Wordle: This popular game can be played both online and through the app. If you can’t get enough Wordle, similar apps like Klura and Wordus are available.
- Words with Friends: similar to Scrabble, this fun game can be played for free online or through the app
- Typeshift: move the columns of letters to create words trying to use each letter at least once. Like Wordle, there is a new one each day
- 7 Little Words: find the 7 words to match the 7 clues using the letters/letter groups. Also, look at their “for the classroom” page for printable-themed versions of the game
- Flippity: a hangman-style game where you can input the words to use (listen to this podcast episode on Flippity)
- Word Trip: a free app good for younger children to learn vocabulary
- Whirly Word: a paid-for app that has over 5,000 puzzles where you use given letters to make as many words as possible
If you are looking for a middle school writing program that includes grammar and vocabulary games, check out our Writing Fun for Middle Schoolers course. This class uses games in each module to encourage the reluctant writer. The class uses topics and essay prompts designed to engage middle schoolers and encourage their enthusiasm for writing.
If your students are a bit older, you can check out our Writing Mechanics class where students learn writing skills needed in order to do well on the ACT and SAT, and write papers for and at college.
Meryl van der Merwe
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