Grammar games can help students learn the parts of speech and improve their writing skills. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, an educational publisher, offers a "Grammar Blast" game on its Eduplace website in which students can take short, ten question quizzes related to grade-level concepts and earn points. Funbrain offers a similar game called "Grammar Gorillas," where students identify the parts of speech in a sentence. Another educational game website, Arcademic Skill Builders, offers two games, "Verb Viper" and "Word Invasion," in which students play games to identify specific parts of speech.
Online spelling games take a variety of forms. Some games, such as Knowledge Adventure's "Letter Blocks," have students find words in a group of letters. Other games, such as "Word Scramble," ask students to make as many words as possible from a group of letters or unscramble letters to create a word, such as Funbrain's "Scramble-Saurus." Big IQ Kids offers an online spelling bee in which students can compete against one another.
Vocabulary games help students learn to identify synonyms and antonyms and correctly use root words and affixes. "Furious Frogs," from Arcademic Skill Builders, is a multi-player game in which students identify synonyms and antonyms of a given word. The Family Education Network offers "Race to Ramses," a game that has students use affixes and root words to navigate a buried tomb. Scholastic's "Short Circuit" is a similar game, in which students use prefixes and suffixes to repair a computer.
Sheppard Software offers games that help students improve their writing skills. "Magic Capitals" has students correct errors in capitalization in a sentence. "Comma Chameleon" is another punctuation game in which students insert the correct punctuation marks in a sentence. Students can test their comma IQ in a game based on the book "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss on the Save the Comma website.