I confess, I’ve been hunting and evaluating hidden object games for literacy purposes for nearly a year now, so I’m kind of coming at this from a skewed background. But having played nearly a dozen hidden object games to their conclusions with this growing awareness of literacy needs in mind, I’m starting to put together …
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Hidden object games and ELL learning
ELL students and others who struggle with reading issues feature an uphill battle for skill mastery that’s compounded by the social stigma and real-world functional problem that language deficits present. While they’re trying to learn from textbooks they’re also missing out on social interactions that a) could otherwise bootstrap their skills and b) put them …
Hidden object games for literacy?
When I think about how to incorporate hidden object games to support literacy, I’m mainly thinking about the ELL/ESL population, and a comment made by one of the teachers we work with, that the commercially available hidden object games would be great to give some of the older students in her ELL population because they …