A fun and effective way to learn and remember Vocabulary Words!
Our Family Night just got crazier and more intellectual after playing Marie’s Words! It’s not only competitive but challenging too.
Marie’s Words utilizes colorful illustrations to create a “visual” for each of the 550 vocabulary words taken from the literature portion of the SAT test. While some of the illustrations are a bit challenging at first, once understood, each drawing aids in mastering the definitions of the vocabulary words. On the reverse of each Marie’s Words card is the phonetic pronunciation, definition, part of speech, the word used in a sentence, synonyms, and antonyms.
Each of the 550 cards are alphabetized, numbered, and with a hole punched in a corner. Marie’s Words presents difficult vocabulary in a visual and meaningful way for children of all ages.
Marie’s Words provides 2 games for endless word fun, Picture Words and Marie’s Wordsmith.
How it Works for Us
We pop a bowl of popcorn and huddle up at the kitchen table. Â All games are more FUN with popcorn, right?
We prefer to play Picture Words during our Family Nights, but we add a little twist to the bonus points. Â Each person who can accurately define one of the review words before the game starts, gets a bonus point. Â We put all review cards on a metal ring. To make it fair for everyone, we right down our answers on paper and review them together instead of shouting them all out.
We each take a turn drawing a random card and everyone gets a shot at guessing the word by simply looking at the picture. Â If you are correct, you get a point. Next, the person drawing reads the definition and everyone must use the word in a wacky sentence.
Whomever accumulates the most points after drawing 10-20 new vocabulary word cards is the winner!
Our little ones try to guess the definition, too. Â However, they are usually playing or coloring quietly next to us.
I was extremely impressed when I realized Marie’s Words was created by a high school junior preparing for the SAT. I guess that explains why my 2 high schoolers enjoy playing it so much. My 7 year old loves to draw a card and guess the definition, too.
It’s a super FUN game that we all enjoy playing during our weekly Family Nights!
Buy It
Marie’s Words is a FUN and engaging resource that is available through Marie’s Words website for only 29.99 and FREE shipping for all US orders!
Marie’s Words is offering a FREE group demo session and consultation online for all orders made in December! Â
Win It
Marie’s Words wants two of Blessed Beyond a Doubt’s readers to play the FUN game, Marie’s Words, during their Family Nights. Â Also, each winner will receive a 30 minute consultation. I will be picking a random winner on December 11 at 11:59 pm. Winner will be contacted via email and must respond within 48 hours.
How do you teach your children new vocabulary words?
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would love this for my daughter
Hm… Both options look wonderful. My oldest wouldn’t need the picture ones, but I think the other 2 would benefit from it.
This looks awesome and looks like it can even be easily adapted for doing vocab and spelling with little ones.
Probably Pictoral would be best for us!
We would do best with the physical cards.
With the age spread in my kids (17, 11 & 10) both forms would get equal use in our house. The older one would read the back (he remembers just about anything he reads) and the younger two would benefit from the visual cues on the front.
the printed form
I like the Printed Flash Cards!
Printed would be easiest to use with the kids
the flash cards
love this
Anything would work for us.
The physical cards would be so much fun!
I like the picture words idea…young kids love pictures!!
i think the app would be ideal for us.
physical cards
The pictures look fabulous! Nothing sticks in your mind quite as well as when it’s accompanied by a funny picture.
The physical cards would be a wonderful addition to our Family Night.
The pictures would really help my girls.
For my 6 yr olds i think the card would be best to give them something tangible to hold.
I think the iPhone/iPad form would work better for our family.
The physical cards!
The actual cards would work best for us since we don’t have devices to use the other forms. 🙂
I think we’d likely enjoy the picture cards the most at this stage, as we haven’t done any vocabulary building outside of reading.
The picture cards would be a huge blessing to our homeschool family.
These cards look great! The physical cards would work best for us.
The printed flash cards would work best in our family. Thank you so much for the opportunity.
I love the family game night.
This would help us with family time, reading, vocabularly, spelling, imagination, thinking, having fun learning. I think the cards would help us with all of that. Thank you.
Sounds like fun:)
We’d love to win the physical cards – hands on works best for my son. Thanks for the opportunity.
The picture cards would be great! Love this!
The Picture Words would be good to start with since we have grandchildren who could grow into the game. I love vocab games!
These have been on my wishlist for two years! My daughter is only 5, but loves words so I know she would love these. I’d love to own both the app and the cards, but I think the physical cards would be better.
neat! the physical cards will work best for us, TY!
We’re always looking for something fun for family nights!
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