12 Spanish Grammar Games to Power Up Your Fluency
If you want to take your kids’ Spanish to the next level, consider playing Spanish grammar games with them!
Research after research has shown the benefits of using games as a learning tool, which means its the perfect solution to mastering one of the hardest Spanish topics: grammar.
Parents and teachers of Spanish students have been using these games for years, and now you can take advantage of this progressive teaching technique too!
Keep reading to discover why learning via play is the latest trend in education, why you should learn Spanish grammar games, how to play them, and where to find 12 of the most entertaining games in Spanish for all ages and levels.
Learning by Playing
By now, the value of playing games for educational purposes is well-established. Games are engaging, fun, challenging, and teach problem-solving skills, collaboration, and strategizing to reach one’s goals.
Moreover, you can play games on almost any topic and at every age.
Games keep students motivated, focused, and interested in the subject of study.
Above all, playing games in Spanish is an excellent strategy, especially for beginners who are new to the language and need a fun approach to get hooked on it.
Why You Should Learn Spanish Grammar Games
Collecting useful Spanish grammar games and learning how to play them with your children or students becomes an invaluable resource in your language-teaching toolkit.
If you’re intent on reinforcing a specific grammar topic in your lesson, you can pick out the best-fit of the Spanish grammar games I’ve enlisted below. Let them empower your lesson in a fun and engaging way!
You can use these games in so many ways, including:
- to play during free time in class
- to reinforce specific Spanish grammar lessons
- To engage your children in learning as they play
In short, learning Spanish grammar games makes your life easier as a homeschooling parent or Spanish educator, and makes your students’ learning process more exciting and entertaining.
12 Spanish Grammar Games You Will Love
I’ve divided this list of fun and engaging Spanish grammar games in two categories: offline and online. This way, if for some reason you don’t have internet access, you can still play games with your children or students and practice Spanish.
4 Offline Grammar Games in Spanish
These days it’s harder to find offline Spanish grammar games than online options, so I know you will surely appreciate these four games in Spanish.
1. Guess Who?
This one doesn’t have to be the famous board game, although if you have it you can play it with it too. The game is as follows: Ask your students to write the name of a famous person or fantasy character in a post-it and then mix them up and glue them to your students’ foreheads. Now, they have to ask questions in Spanish about the person they got in order to discover their identity. All questions have to be answered with a simple sí or no.
For example:
¿Soy hombre?
Am I a man?
¿Soy un cantante?
Am I a singer?
You can see why I chose “Guess Who?” as the name for this game, because as long as you ask the questions in Spanish, you’re making your students practice Spanish grammar rules while playing the game of guessing who they are.
2. Sentence Matching
For this game you have to create your own materials, but the good thing is that you can do it about any topic you are studying at the time.
Start by typing and printing full sentences in Spanish related to the topic you want your students to practice. Make sure to use a large font size. Now, cut your sentences in two parts, thinking about how your students will have to find the matching sentence by applying the correct grammar rule.
For instance, if you’re studying verb conjugations, make sure to have the subject on one half of the sentence and the conjugated verb on the other half. Now, mix them up, turn them down and ask your students to find the matches. Depending on the number of students you have, you can make an interesting competition out of this game.
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3. KLOO
KLOO is such a great game that it’s received multiple awards in the board game industry and it’s versatile enough to work in different languages. The one you want to play with your students is “KLOO Race to Madrid.”
With KLOO, your students score points by making sentences in seconds and learning important words and phrases. A smart use of the card space makes the construction of new sentences in Spanish so easy with the thrill of the competition making it fun and interesting for everybody.
4. Lingo
Less popular than KLOO but still very effective, Lingo is one more of the Spanish grammar games that uses cards to teach the language.
The 54-card deck includes practical phrases, everyday greetings, and easy-to-learn pronunciation, among other things. A perfect game to play in class and practice Spanish.
8 Online Games in Spanish
Time for the online Spanish grammar games. As you’d expect, there’s a lot of variety in these types of games, so feel free to choose the ones that better suit your specific situation.
5. Woodward Spanish Grammar Games
Every list of online Spanish grammar games has to start with Woodward, an institution in the subject. Woodward has games for a wide diversity of grammar topics, differentiated for beginners, intermediate, and advanced learners.
As an experienced Spanish teacher, I can tell you that Woodward has saved my class more than once, and their games are engaging and easy to play. If that wasn’t enough, it also includes sections for grammar rules, vocabulary lists, and vocabulary games.
6. Quizlet
Many people don’t know that Quizlet also offers online games, and I’ve met teachers that were gladly surprised when discovering this less-known asset of the popular online learning platform.
Basically, you can learn about a wide range of topics in Quizlet, not only Spanish. Teachers all around the world, go there to use lessons created by other teachers. Each lesson includes flashcards, writing and spelling sections, a little test, and three different games to be played online. My students love when I close my class with a Quizlet “Match” or “Gravity” game.
7. Digital Dialects
This site is a great online resource filled with lots of different free Spanish learning games that I find better suited for beginners.
Here, you find many vocabulary games, but also Spanish grammar games to build phrases and apply conjugations of different verbs.
8. Rockalingua
The popular music-based site for Spanish learners also has a section of online Spanish grammar games.
Most of them are just basic vocabulary games, but you can also find games about verbs, questions, and more complex grammar topics.
Some of the games at Rockalingua are free to use, but to completely unlock the potential of this site you need to get a $20 subscription.
9. The Dialogue Game
This game helps your students or children to practice their conversation skills and focus on their grammar structures.
The technology may be a bit outdated, but the logic of the game is flawless and a useful substitute to an actual Spanish conversation with a real person.
10. Polly Lingual
This site is an excellent tool for language learning. There are plenty of lessons in Spanish and each one includes four different games: word search, memory, hangman, and whack a word.
Although many of the games for beginners are available for free, if you want to truly enjoy the benefits of Polly Lingual, you need to buy a yearly passport for $9.95.
11. Spanish-Games
Get your kids to practice Spanish while playing four in a row, mix and match, or the classic pong, among several other educational games.
The website design is a bit outdated but the games are cool and easy to play. An interesting touch is that you can switch back and forth from Spain’s Spanish to Latin American’s Spanish.
12. 123 Teach Me
This website offers a wide array of Spanish grammar games for children and teenagers. Practice Spanish with your students, while playing games such as Connect 4, Brick Breaker, or Space Bubbles Game.
Just make sure that you’re on the correct page for your kids’ age, as some of the games on the teenagers section aren’t suitable for younger children. Another thing to consider is that some of these games are old versions running on Flash, which may cause you some trouble with your browser.
Play Games and Learn Spanish!
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