Vocabulary Builder Board Game (Tier 2 Words)
The Vocabulary Builder Board Game (Tier 2 Words) – Set of 3 helps students in Years 3–4 expand their vocabulary by replacing common Tier 1 words with richer Tier 2 alternatives. Each game follows the same interactive format, using 24 outer squares with everyday words and a 24-square inner grid of stronger vocabulary choices. Students roll the die, land on a word, and match it to its improved synonym to place their counter in the inner grid. The first to cover three in a row wins.
This set includes three themed games:
- Vocabulary Builder: Dialogue – Replacing basic dialogue tags like said, asked, and told with expressive alternatives such as enquired, pleaded, and clarified.
- Vocabulary Builder: Emotions – Swapping everyday feeling words like happy, sad, and angry with precise vocabulary such as elated, miserable, and furious.
- Vocabulary Builder: Actions – Strengthening common verbs like run, eat, and look with richer options such as sprint, devour, and observe.
Learning goals
- We are learning that verbs are doing, thinking, saying and relating words and that time is represented through verb tense, e.g. she arrived, she is arriving.
- We are learning to understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases can provide details of the circumstances surrounding a happening or state, e.g. at midnight (time), he rose slowly (manner) from the chair (place) and went upstairs (place).
- We are learning that time is represented through verb tense, e.g. she arrived, she is arriving.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E3LA08
9
Understand that verbs are anchored in time through tense
AC9E4LA08
9
Understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity
ACELA1482
8.4
Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example: doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these processes are anchored in time through tense
ACELA1495
8.4
Understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity
EN2-9B
old
Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
EN2-RECOM-01
new
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
VCELA262
Understand that verbs represent different processes (doing, thinking, saying, and relating) and that these processes are anchored in time through tense
VCELA280
Understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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