These kinds of games and activities use tiles with letters, similar to the ones you find as part of a Scrabble board game. You can use the tiles from a Scrabble game or custom-make your own tiles. Students are challenged to make as many words as they can that are nouns, verbs or adjectives in a set amount of time. Teachers can vary this exercise by adding more rules, for example, all nouns have to be four or more letters long, adjectives must be in the comparative form and verbs must be conjugated in the first person. Students can then use the word lists that they generate for other activities.
This activity starts with word lists of nouns, verbs and adjectives, either generated by the teacher or the students. These can also be interdisciplinary and include vocabulary from lessons on other subjects. Students have to practice their syntax and punctuation by putting nouns, verbs and adjectives in the proper order to make sentences. Alternatively, teachers can choose to give their students jumbled sentences or whole passages that have to be corrected, chosen and tailored according to the student's level.
There are two kinds of blank-fill exercises that you can use with nouns, verbs and adjectives. The first is more like writing practice than a game and consists of sentences with a certain part of speech missing. Students have to fill in the blanks using their own knowledge or choosing from a list that has been provided. The second type is more of a humorous game. A paragraph is given to the students that contains blanks in places where any word can fit, provided that it is a certain part of speech (choose a noun for this space, any adjective for the second, etc). Blank-fills like this can feature a single part of speech (adjectives only) or a mix off all three.
Most students see writing as a mundane or difficult chore; writing games are a way to make it more entertaining and less boring. This can also be interdisciplinary, integrating virtually any subject, depending on the vocabulary. Students can work in groups or individually, writing sentences or even original stories generated from themed lists of nouns, verbs and adjectives. Variations of this activity can also include overlap into a sentence jumble exercise in which students have to compose and then jumble their own compositions for their peers to correct.