Shower of Letters
From DIT Experimental Gaming Group
| Game Name | Shower of Letters |
|---|---|
| Players role |
Player will use the mouse and/or arrow keys to move their avatar and select items. |
| Game objective | To score points by getting the highest amount of correctly formed words/sentences. On log on screen there could be a way to see previous high scores in that game and their objective should be to get their name in the high scores list. |
| Learning objective |
This game addresses language awareness as well as some cultural awareness At the end of this game, player will be able to:
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| Description of Play |
Player will be given a prompt (e.g. it’s a type of food with 5 letters, it might also be a visual prompt such as a picture or graphic of an item) on screen and aurally. They are then to select from the raining letters/ alphabets whatever they hear spelled out. Every complete word they spell gains them points. If they spell 2/3 words wrong consecutively they lose. Every time they spell wrong they lose points. The game is in varying levels of difficulty-maybe 2 which might be just words and the stage 2 which might be harder words and sentences. |
| Resources |
(Graphics- by Conor) (Vocabulary/Words, sentences-prompts and responses- by Language Team in developing vocab and words, seperate them into 3 levels of difficulty)Vocabulary Banks |
