A great way to practice speech and language skills is through playing games. That’s right! GAMES! Board games provide tons of language practice because participants are required to recall, comprehend, follow directions, answer questions, use strategic, higher-order thinking skills, and describe. Here are some great games that you can have fun with while practicing your language skills at the same time!

Guess Who: perfect for working on asking/answering questions, describing skills, vocabulary usage, and reasoning skills

20 Questions: great for describing, deductive reasoning, and vocabulary

Scattergories: works on your ability to classify and organize items, which is great practice for word finding skills

Hed Banz: wonderful for working on asking/answering questions, describing, categories, and vocabulary

Apples to Apples: you can work on vocabulary, grammar, parts of speech, comparing/ contrasting and sentence structure while playing with a large group. This game also has a junior edition!

Taboo: perfect for working on describing, synonyms, and antonyms

Mad Libs: a great way to review parts of speech such as nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs