37 Guessing Game Riddles
Caroline Massaro
Strategy Overview
- The guessing game riddles are a set of riddles to help students develop oral language skills, communication skills, and problem-solving.
- Students have an item with clues that they share with a partner ( or with the whole class) and students will guess the item based off those clues.
- This strategy relates to research on the “Big 6” skills & competencies in that oral language focuses on speaking, listening, providing the foundation for written language” (Lesaux & Carr, 2024, p.3).
- Students are focusing on their speaking and listening skills in this strategy, communicating with their peers and reading vocabulary words and their clues.
Strategy in Action
Students in a classroom will be put into pairs or have this as a center rotation. One example of this is a ‘What am I?’ food-themed guessing game. One student would read the clues on the card to describe the food they have. This is allows the student to practice their speaking and reading skills. The other student is using their listening skills to identify what food their partner is describing. The teacher would play a video introducing this activity to the class and do an sample round with the students.
Related Resources
Lesaux, N.K., Carr, K.C. (2024). Brief 1: Science of reading: What is it? New York State Education Department.
