Words in a Row

Draw, imagine, and write incredible stories!

Yanez Busi, Mario Francesco Sirito, Pierdomenico Baccalario

Product: Teaching tools

Trim size in cm: 11,5 x 9,9 x 9,8 cm

ISBN: 9788859042945

Publication date: 01/09/2025

Suitable for: Primary 2nd level (ages 8-10), Lower secondary 1st level (ages 10-11), Lower secondary 2nd level (ages 12-13)

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Words in a Row is a language game designed to turn group work into a creative and stimulating experience. Suitable for children and young people in primary and lower secondary school, the game supports the development of language skills through the collaborative writing of micro-stories. It’s an activity that blends logical thinking, imagination, and teamwork — ideal for enriching vocabulary, improving syntax, and strengthening group cohesion.

The goal is simple: create meaningful sentences with a set number of words while including randomly drawn “mandatory” words. Participants, divided into teams, face three rounds of creative writing: one with 40 words, one with 30, and one with 20. In each round, they must include an increasing number of randomly drawn words from a bag, making every story a fun challenge of originality and coherence.

Learning objectives

Stimulate creativity
Encourage collaboration and healthy competition
Improve language skills

• 4 notepads
• 4 pencils
• 1 drawstring bag
• 100 word tiles

Words in a row

Draw, imagine, and write incredible stories! Yanez Busi, Mario Francesco Sirito

Words in a Row is a language game designed to turn group work into a creative and stimulating experience. The game supports the development of language skills of children and young people in primary and lower secondary school through the collaborative writing of micro-stories. It’s an activity that blends logical thinking, imagination, and teamwork — ideal for enriching vocabulary, improving syntax, and strengthening group cohesion. Find out more!

The box contents

4 notepads

1 bag

4 pencils

100 word tiles

TEACHING OBJECTIVES

Stimulate creativity
Encourage collaboration and healthy competition
Improve language skills

How to play

Players, divided into teams, must invent short, meaningful micro-stories using an exact number of words:

40 in the first round
30 in the second
20 in the third

Before starting, each team draws a certain number of compulsory words from the bag (4, 3 or 2 depending on the round) that must be included in the story. In turn, each member says only one word, which the Writer notes down on the sheet, without any discussion or prior agreement. A Keeper checks that the rules are followed. At the end of each round, the teacher awards points:

1 for originality
1 for correct use of the compulsory words
2 for syntactic accuracy
3 for the exact number of words

The team with the highest total score wins.

Leaf through some selected pages from the instruction book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:

The Authors

Yanez Busi, Mario Francesco Sirito.

Thematic Areas

Reading and writing
Reading and writing > Producing a text and creative writing