Word Wall Lotto: Give each student a blank BINGO board (you can print one from my printables page). Display 20 word wall words. Have students copy the words randomly on their BINGO board. The object of the game is to be the first player to cover five words in a row (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally). Call out one word at a time. Students find the word and cover it with a counter. Call words out until someone has five in a row.
Secret Letter Bag: Have a student reach into the "Secret Letter Bag" without looking and pull out two cards. Have the student show the group the two letters. This is the range from which the group will be reading the word wall words. For example, if the letters f and l are pulled out, students will read all the words from the lists f, g, h, i , j, k, and l. To limit the number of words to be read, you can put a small range of letters in the bag.
What's My Word?: Have the group sit in a circle. Start with one person. They choose and say a word from the Word Wall. The next person (clockwise) spells the word. The next person says another word from the Word Wall. The next person spells the word, and so on. You could also add "saying a sentence with the word".
Roll Twenty: Divide the group into two teams of two to four players (depending on the amount in the group). Give each team paper, pencil, and a set of word cards. Have the teams place the cards facedown in a pile. The goal of the game is to be the first player on a team to spell 20 Word Wall words. Have each team member write his/her name at the top of the paper. The first player rolls the die. Have the second player read that number of word cards to the first player, who tries to spell each word. The first player records each word he or she spelled correctly on his paper. Have students place the word cards facedown at the bottom of the pile at the end of each player's turn. Students continue rolling the die and spelling words until one player has spelled 20 words.
Speedy Spellers: Divide the group into teams. Give each team a timer, a set of word cards, and a piece of scrap paper. The object of the game is to spell as many words as possible in one minute. Have teams start their timer. The first player reads one word card at a time, while the second player tries to spell each word, and the third player tallies the number of correctly spelled words on the paper. After the first player's time is finished, have teams reset their timer and shuffle their cards. Have students continue to take turns reading, spelling, and tallying their answers. After each member of the team has had a chance to spell all the words, have the students count their points. The student with the most points wins the game. Give students a second chance to improve their scores by allowing them to have a second try at spelling the words.
Vowel Fractions: Have students make four columns on their paper. Label each column as follows: Word Wall Words, Total Letters, Vowels, Vowel Fraction. In the first column, they write ten Word Wall words. Count the letters in each word and write that number in the second column. Then, count the number of vowels in the word and write that number in the third column. Finally, write the "vowel fraction" in the last column. For example, three out of seven letters in the word are vowels, so the fraction is 3/7. *You can do the same with consonants.
Syllables: Divide your paper into two columns. Write fifteen words from the Word Wall in the first column. Write the number of syllables in each word in the second column. At the bottom of the page, write the word with the most syllables, least syllables, the same number of syllables.
Word Shapes: Make four columns on paper and label them as follows: Word Wall Words, Tall Letters, Small Letters, Dropped letters. Write ten words from the Word Wall in the first column. Count and record the number of tall, small, and dropped letters in each word. At the bottom of the page, record the words with the most tall letters, most small letters, and most dropped letters.
Word Worth: Give students a "Value Sheet". This sheet should have the following information:
1 Point Letters: a, e, j, k, o, r, u, w, x, y
2 Point Letters: b, d, f, h, i, l, m, n, q, s, t, v
3 Point Letters: c, g, p
5 Point Letter: z
Search the Word Wall for words that add up to "values" of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 points.