Learn how you can use Mad Libs© in your classroom to teach reading and language arts. These activities are a fun way to have your students practice their reading and language arts skills.
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Updated on: February 3, 2005
![]() This collection of activities can be used with Mad Libs® books in the elementary classroom, as a supplement to reading and language arts study. Use the Mad Libs® books in your classroom, or allow your students to enjoy them online, at the links below. | |
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Using Mad Libs® in Gr. 1-3 Classrooms![]() Hold a Noun Hunt, make up noun riddles, create rebus puzzles, and practice plurals. ![]() Focus on irregular verbs and contractions, create adjective puzzles, and more. ![]() Explore main idea and details, context clues, synonyms, antonyms, and vivid language. ![]() Have fun with oral reading, flash cards, and a dramatic radio broadcast. ![]() Practice transforming your own writing into Mad Libs® selections. | Using Mad Libs® in Gr. 4-6 Classrooms![]() Explore regular and irregular plurals, common and proper nouns, and more. ![]() Practice irregular past tenses; focus on "which, what kind, and how many"; and tackle "when, where, and how." ![]() Complete a Mad Libs® selection as a Cloze exercise, and have fun with onomatopoetic words. ![]() Play a punctuation card game, perform a Reader's Theater, and work with an atlas. ![]() Create Mad Libs® selections using a family story, fairy tale, or other type of writing. |