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Listener request today! We’re going to talk about ELA skills and board games to support them.

0:00:00 Fact for 425

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0:03:30 What We’ve Been Playing

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Trick-Taking Game *
Stew
Cat Rescue *
Trio (our review)
boop (app version * – we love boop, not sure this is the best way to play it)

(*) first time mentioned on The Family Gamers Podcast

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0:22:00 ELA Learning in Board Games

There’s lots of subjects that we can talk about when talking about learning through board games. There’s the hard sciences, there’s math, and then there’s the more liberal arts side of education, which is important, but a lot more difficult to teach or work through with games.

The best way to practice ELA is through just doing more reading and writing. But you can support foundational skills through work with board games, and also inspire more practice for older kids with “gameschooling”.

We split the “older kid” skills into three groups, with games for each:

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