If you love Words with Friends or Scrabble, you'll love this game. This making words activity is interactive and fun. You will get to see how your students think about words, by monitoring the words they make with the letters they have available. 

Directions:

Group Size: Pairs

Player #1 shuffles the letter tiles and deals each player 7 tiles.  The remaining tiles become the deck.  ?Player #1 uses his letter tiles to build a word on the game board.  The first word of the game must have a letter on the space with the asterisk.  Words can be played horizontally or vertically.  Words must be real words. (no nonsense words allowed)  After player #1 is finished building his word, he pulls enough letter tiles from the deck to have 7 in his hand.  Using the scoring guide below, player #1 adds up his/her score.  ?Player #2 uses the letter tiles to build a word on the game board. All new words must connect with one letter already on the board. Then player #2 pulls enough letter tiles to have 7.  Using the guide below, player #2 adds up his/her score.  ?Play follows the same pattern back and forth until one player uses all the letter tiles from his/her hand and the deck.  ?The player with the highest score wins.