MAD LIBS & MAD LIBS JR

MAD LIBS....

Remember those? I know they've been around forever... and are still going...

Well, I hadn't thought much about them, but we've worked with some basics of grammar this year in our schooling. In one of the multiple activity books we have, Gabi stumbled across something that she didn't understand... it was, in short, a mad lib, though by another name. She and Beth really liked it and went in search of others in the same book.

So I got to thinking... it's fun, it reinforces the parts of the sentences we've already gone over, and easy for on the go or "I'm bored" time. In looking for Mad Libs (which there are so many in every topic) I noticed there are also MAD LIB JRs... the difference... well, the book is a bit bigger with bigger print to start with. The major difference, however, is that instead of having the kid think up the noun, adjective, etc all by themselves, there is a word bank for each category (a different set of word banks for each story). This helps the kids to begin to identify which words are what. It also only has three categories - Noun, Adjective, Verb and MISC - which simplifies things.

I got the Jr version for Beth not knowing exactly what it was. It's perfect... though she's probably somewhere between that and the original version for skill level. What she does is use the word bank, but if she thinks of a word that she wants to use, then she double checks with me as to which word bank to add it to. I think that's great because it helps her process different words herself.

Anyway - we love them... they'll be around for a long time...