Remember playing hangman with friends on lazy summer days as a child? I bet you didn’t realize you where helping your reading skills by doing so! Hangman can be a very helpful game because it engages foresight and memory of word and sentence structure. It may not be the most popular after school game anymore, but it’s definitely worth it to introduce this old classic to your kids. Start out with one-word puzzles and eventually build up to sentence-long puzzles. A cute idea is to pack a hangman puzzle inside their lunch box once a week and have them figure it out during their lunch break. Be sure to add a few clues for them. When they get home, you can have fun checking if they guessed correctlyJ
The rules of hangman are:
1) Draw empty spaces that represent letters in a word, so that each letter had its own line to be written on.
2) Ask your child to guess a letter that may be in the puzzle. If letter they guess is in the puzzle write it in the space(s) it belongs.
3) Draw a box under the spaces you’ve drawn for the words in the puzzle. This box is where you write any letters that aren’t in the puzzle so you’re child won’t guess incorrectly numerous times.
4) Every time they guess incorrectly you draw a part of the hangman’s body on the noose (i.e. head, body, two, arms, and finally two legs.). So in other words, they have 8 incorrect guesses before the hangman is complete and they’re out of guesses.
5) When they guess the word or sentence correctly, they’ve won and then it’s their turn to make up a puzzle for youJ
Enjoy!
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