My sister-in-law loves games and during the summer holds game days. Family and friends gather and play games. She turned me on to Bananagrams®, a wonderfully addictive word game! Launched in 2006 at the London Toy Fair, Bananagrams® became a “modern classic.” It consists of 144 letter tiles in a banana-shaped zippered pouch. It’s a faced paced word building game, great for practicing high frequency words, developing spelling skills and building vocabulary. There are more games too: Appletters™ and Pairs in Pears™, both by the same company, Bananagrams®. Appletters™ is designed for the younger player, a strategy game building words from letter tiles. Pairs in Pears™ is a fast paced pair making word game that “helps children develop memory and cognitive skills while learning the alphabet, pattern recognition, word construction, vowels, vocabulary, and rhyming.”
I think you’ll get hooked on these great word games. You can purchase them online through the Bananagrams® website or the Really Good Stuff catalog ; Educational Exchange teacher store and Just Awesome! The Board Game Store, both in San Francisco. You’ll go bananas!
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