Make A Word

John's Grandma Patch, whom I often refer to or type directly to here, once created, copyrighted, licensed and produced a cool "word game" called Make A Word. It has been used by a few schools and sold "here and there" in the past. We ended up with a box full of a few games and she has also given us the original materials needed to reproduce the game should we venture to do so.

Today Lil S and I were playing with Make A Word©. I would give her three letters, ex. "N", "C", "A". An then I would say "Sound out the word "CAN" and put these letters in order to spell the word 'CAN'." She did very well. On her first tries, she spelled "can", "butt" (she gets bored easy but has a wild sense of humor and I had to keep it interesting!), and a four letter word, but I can't remember which on it was. I tried "LEHOL" to get "HELLO" out of her, and she did try hard, but she couldn't get it. It was just a test, I didn't expect her to get it, I just thought she might because she was doing so well.

I wanted to say "Thank You" Gramma Patch for your creative way with learning, and we do use the Make A Word game around here.

Also, Gramma Patch, you might want to check up on your Copyright to the Make A Word name/game, as I found in a simple Google search that Read Write Think/IRA/NCTE has possibly created a game (click here)called Make A Word as well. Although slightly different from yours (the original), it is used for the same purpose, literacy. They also allow for reproduction of their materials for educational purposes, so they are allow everyone and anyone to use their supposed Copyright on the literacy game name Make A Word. Not sure if that bothers you or not? It could be quite the damper should we decide to try to put Make A Word back on the market though.

Make A Word is a literacy game ©Ms. Ladybugs (not sure of the year? Gramma Patch can you fill me in so I don't have to dig through papers too high in the closet for me to reach?).