STORM BOY Worksheet/Games - STACK 4 - Targeting Vocabulary Development

Storm Boy, by Colin Thiele, is a rich source of vocabulary and easily adapted to games to give all students the benefits of reading skill development, regardless of ability. This product is a worksheet/game and I call it that because it is a worksheet first - players have to read the words - but it is also a game and that’s what motivates and provides high engagement levels.

This is a game for two players that needs one six-sided die. The throw of the die means the game is never the same twice. You could play with a whole class if you have enough dice. The winner is the first player to read four words and claim those spaces in a vertical stack. Their opponent can block if they throw the right number on the die. You can extend the game after one stack if there are more stacks to win.

WORDS USED:
Compound: windswept, underbelly, beachcomber, inlet, freshwater, waterbird, hideaway, sandhills, anywhere, postmaster, everyone, Fingerbone, anyone, anteaters, driftwood, gunpowder, anything, landmark, crosspiece, lookout, thistledown, sometimes, shellfish, blackfellows, campfires, fishermen, horseshoe, leapfrog starfish, seahorses, underside, outside, inside, everywhere, bathroom, sometimes, daybreak, sportsmen, tiptoed, gentlemen, breakfast, overhead, whenever, railway, shipwreck, tugboat, sideways, backwash, inland, doorway

Multisyllabic:
A: tussocky, Australian, underbelly, Adelaide, beachcomber, freshwater, waterbird, kerosene, packages, hideaway, remembered, different, towering, kangaroo, suddenly, wandering, forlornly, postmaster, Aboriginal, bandicoots, anteaters, mysterious, collection, disorganised, blunderbuss, gunpowder, anything, afterwards, carefully, thistledown, sedately, cuttlefish, underside, nautilus, porcelain, Antarctica, sanctuary, furiously pedalling, crisscrossing, excitement, pelican, secretly, unable, innocently, angrily, important, dignity, destruction, desperately

B: hungrily, grandfather, serious, Percival, heavily, dignified, politely, impatient, disapproval, snippery, snappery, snickery, snackery, sleepily, gentlemen, respectable, noisily, miracle, favourite, unhappy, miserably, reunion, secretly, appetite, overhead, wherever, importantly, joyously, serenely, spectacles, horrified, seriously, retriever, understand, expected, sullenly, mulloway, snickered, snickered, happily, inspectors, fishermen, patiently, terrible, embankments, boobyalla, important, tomorrow, especially, disappointed

C: pelican, hopefully, breathlessly, suddenly, disappointed, wonderful, beginning, desperately, unfastened, shivering, exhausted, miracle, preparing, especially, embarrassed, decided, eleven, horrified, wonderful, museum, countryside, echoing, gunpowder, impatient, annoyingly, cumbersome, aeroplane, terrible, understood, angrier, confounded, ponderous, heavily, awkwardly, helplessly, moistening, repeating, angrily, examined, rapidly, silently, motionless, together, suddenly, quietly, silently, holidays, happiness, everything, Percival