Choose from two choices to fill in the blanks in sentences while playing the vocabulary game Word Confusion at FunBrain's website. Solve online word-search puzzles using vocabularies from popular books such as "Harry Potter," "Where the Wild Things Are," "The Wizard of Oz" and "Tarzan," or create your own word-search puzzles (from four skill levels) that can be played online or printed out for use offline.
Listen to flash card sets and worksheets of middle-school vocabulary words or take interactive quizzes that can be customized as matching, true or false, written or multiple choice quizzes. Quizlet has more than 1,000 middle school vocabulary flash card sets that come with quizzes and worksheets, ranging in topic from synonyms to words from the book "Tarzan." Pick one of the characters in the classic book "Charlotte's Web" to represent you in the Pick the Perfect Word game at the Scholastic website. Enter a virtual world of "Charlotte's Web," playing word games or play other word games featuring books such as "Goosebumps" and "The Baby-sitters Club."
Make your own word search and crossword puzzles, picture/word dominoes and photo vocabulary worksheets using the Tools for Educators website. Create vocabulary board games that can be printed out and make word dice with tools from this site as well. Another site that allows students and teachers to make their own interactive vocabulary games is the Puzzlemaker at Discovery Education. Crossword, word search, word Jumble, cryptograms and hidden-message word puzzles can be customized as they are generated and then played online with solutions automatically generated.
Play online games about synonyms, homophones, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes, adverbs, pronouns and adjectives at the EZSchool website. The games are animated with colorful graphics and are placed in categories for students in grades 2-6 and grades 6-12. Gamequarium has dozens of vocabulary games listed on its website, such as Thesaurus Tangle and Antonym Battleship and Hangman. Gamequarium links to vocabulary games covering the topics of analogies, word context, homophones, antonyms and synonyms, prefixes, suffixes and root words.