Language Skill-Builders & Word Games

Word games, fun word games for kids, and language arts games for Boys & Girls of All Ages

Word games for kids can be a fun way for them to work on building spelling, vocabulary, deductive reasoning and reading comprehension. MindWare has all the workbooks for kids that you'll need to build solid language arts skills. These word games for kids work great at home or in the classroom. Either way, you'll be amazed at what just a few minutes a day can accomplish with these great word game titles.

Grammar Minutes, by Creative Teaching Press, provides speedy grammar exercises that are proven to boost self-confidence and grammatical proficiency. Each book contains 100 "Minutes" with ten questions each. Quick to complete and with instant feedback, kids get excited about these minutes. Books are available for grades 1-6 and are reproducible for classroom use.

The bestselling Word Roots series is newly updated to offer even more activities that help kids to recognize common word roots, prefixes and suffixes. This series of workbooks for kids grows vocabulary while improving spelling, and teaches kids to look at words in a whole new way.

Building reading comprehension is challenging for some students and the Comprehension Detective is just the workbook these kids need for a jump start. Each short detective story challenges critical thinking skills as kids analyze information, discover clues and answer a series of questions that hint toward the final answer. The two Comprehensive Detective workbooks for kids cover grades 3-5 and 6-8. Both workbooks come with teacher's notes, skills overviews and have reproducible student pages for classroom use.

The Reading Detective series of workbooks for kids include informative nonfiction and award-winning literature excerpts - and kids love them! These books help kids learn to make inferences and identify supporting information for their conclusions. With 50 stories per book and activities right on the same page the Reading Detective series is a quick way to boost test preparation and comprehension building. This series includes books for kids ages 8-17.

Link Winks, by MindWare, is a fun word game for kids that gets the creative juices flowing with rhyming solutions to verbal brainteasers that build vocabulary while they make kids laugh. Each book contains 300 puzzles.