How to play the Proverb card game

The Proverb card game is useful

• to develop moral awareness and wisdom by learning proverbs, and
• to build language skills.

The Proverb card game can be played by three or more people.

One person can act as a reader, or all can take turns.

Here are some materials needed for the Proverb card game:

• Thirty text cards with a different well-known proverb written on each card.
• Thirty related picture cards with a picture representing each proverb written on the text cards.

1. The players spread the picture cards randomly on the floor or a table so that all the pictures are visible.
2. A reader shuffles the text cards, then reads the top one.
3. All players look for the picture that matches the proverb.
4. The player who finds the matching picture first, keeps that card.
5. A reader reads the next proverb and the game continues until all the proverbs have been read and all the picture cards have been picked up.

   Results: The player who collects the most cards wins.

Here is a single-player, computer version of the Proverb game, just for fun:

• Proverb game

• Task module: How to play the Proverb card game
• In task module: Playing literacy games
• In task module: Developing literacy skills, by Martha A. Lane (contributor), Delle P. Matthews (contributor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), Anne Klaassens (editor), and Trudy K. Stewart (editor, contributor)
• In task module: Teaching people to read and write, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 16 March 1999

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