Visual Literacy Creativity Game

Visual literacy requires clear communication through images; both creating and interpreting

UPDATE: I packaged this game into a Print, Assemble & Play Download Here

Set up your game: Boxes, Pockets, Words

Visual Literacy Game Roll, Draw, and Guess from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Here is the original why I was playing...

This active learning drawing game combines literacy and creativity. First groups of students would be given a set of 3 boxes labeled Adjective, Noun, and Verb (like these I found on amazon) that have book pockets on each of their six sides. (You can make these w/ paper.)

​Students are given 18 slips of paper and asked to brainstorm collaboratively or collectively words that belong to three parts of speech:

 6 different ADJECTIVES
(describes a noun) Pick adjectives that can be drawn easily
DO: furry, happy, striped, tall, spotted
​DON'T: thoughtful, still, open-minded

 6 different NOUNS 
(person or thing) Pick nouns that can be drawn easily 
DO: robot, dog, monster, alien
DON'T: Pick places like room, store, yard

 6 different VERBS 
(action or state) Pick verbs that can be draw easily.
DO: running, flying, crying, typing
DON'T: thinking, wondering, waiting

GOLDEN RULE: Don't use insulting or mean words. Be creative and keep it fun.

Set up three cubes for each group. Label them: Adjective, Noun, Verb

Make pockets on each of the six sides to hold the words so the game can be reused by future classes

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You can download my AVERY labels 5160 (sheet of 30) with 10 of each parts of speech with short definition. I used this to label each pouch (six per box).

Play: Visual Literacy Creativity Game

The boxes become like DICE that students will ROLL. What ever comes up for their Adjective, Noun, and Verb is what they need to DRAW. The goal is to communicate clearly so others can guess the parts of speech they are drawing correctly. Visual literacy requires clear communication through images; both creating and interpreting.

1. Roll the dice and jot down on the back of your paper (secretly) what you rolled. For example: Adjective=Furry  Noun=Tomato  Verb= Crying

​2. Draw a crying furry tomato as clearly as possible on the front of your paper

3. Guess each other's drawings. There are lots of ways to organize this step

• Collect the drawings and gather the class. The teacher sees the words on the back, the class guesses the adjective, noun, and verb drawn. You could use a document camera to project the drawing larger. Guide students through the parts of speech to help them make guesses.
• Students lay their work on their tables. Groups switch and write on a slip of paper their guesses for the other group's adjectives, nouns, verbs drawn on each paper. Go back to your table and check to see if any one got it right.

VARIATIONS:

• Instead of drawing the words on the dice that you helped generate, switch dice with other groups. 
• 1:1 Chromebook class: Use a google form to enter the words. Pull the words into a random generator tool to play this game without dice. Draw on paper or use google draw. Students view screens to guess or share images digitally through projector.

Furry Tomato Crying

Tiny Pencil Dancing

Scary Golfball Sleeping

KEEPING SCORE:
You can award up to 3 points for someone correctly guessing the verb (1 point), adjective (1 point), and noun (1 point) = 3pts. Each table (or team) of artists can add up their total points to see who has the highest Visual Literacy Score.

No Box? Play with these wheels

Spin for an adjective:

Spin for a noun

Spin for a verb

Resources: Schoolhouse Rock Grammar

If your students are having trouble with Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives these Schoolhouse Rocks videos can teach these parts of speech with short entertaining videos.