Compound It All!

The Compound Word Building Game
By Kim Adlerman, Danny Adlerman
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Compound It All! is a compound word building game that will expand your vocabulary, critical thinking skills, and even your math skills. This unique word-building card game can be used in the classroom, but is equally fun to play with friends and family.

Description

Simple to learn, difficult to master!

Compound It All! is a compound word building card game that will expand your vocabulary, critical thinking skills, and even your math skills. This unique word-building card game can be used in the classroom, but is equally fun to play with friends and family.

Compound It All:

  • Quickly and easily builds vocabulary
  • Demonstrates in an accessible way how compound words work
  • Offers multiple difficulty levels, making it great for differentiated instruction
  • Can be played by both children and adults, and is equally enjoyable for all
  • Expands to nine decks of varied difficulty levels, which can be used individually or in any combination.
  • Teaches not only the concept of compound words but also positive and negative integers
  • Makes learning FUN!

Basic game play:

Each player is dealt 5-7 cards depending on number of players and tries to build compound words, using words in their hand, draw & discard piles, and “stealing” words from opponents by making new compound words. Round ends when first person runs out of cards, but winner is determined by which player has the most points.

About the Creators

Kim Adlerman

Kim Adlerman is an author, an illustrator, and a freelance graphic designer. She holds a degree from the University of Buffalo and has many years of experience working in the graphic design side of publishing. She lives in Metuchen, New Jersey, with her husband, author and musician Danny, and their children.

Danny Adlerman

Danny and Kim Alderman have collaborated on eleven children’s books, one board game, and three beautiful children. Kim is an acclaimed graphic designer and illustrator, while Danny works as a production manager in the book publishing industry and sings and plays guitar both solo and in various combos. They live in central New Jersey. Check out their website at dannyandkim.com and find them online at facebook.com/DannyandKim.

Reviews

  • "Here's a word-building game that may prove confounding, but is unquestionably compounding! This game is a cool way to strengthen vocabulary and critical thinking skills, not to mention to enjoy the word-play fun of coming up with some occasionally unexpected compound words."

    - Don Oldenburg, Parents' Choice Awards

Miscellaneous

  • ISBN 9781223095561
  • Price $29.95
  • Publication Date Nov 15, 2014
  • Trim Size 8.75 × 8.75 × 2.75 in
  • Weight 1.125 lbs
  • Interests

  • Imprint Lee & Low Books
  • Audience Children
  • BISAC Category 1 JNF / Games & Activities / Board Games
  • BISAC Category 2 JNF / Games & Activities / Word Games
  • BISAC Category 3 JNF / Games & Activities / Card Games
  • Themes How-to / Instructional Nonfiction, Nonfiction
  • Reading Levels

  • Age Range Ages 9 - 18
  • Grade Range Grades 4 - College
  • Interest Level Grades 4 - College
  • Reading Level Grades 4 - 12
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