Revelation - Special Features
Revelation - the word detective game
Revelation is a word detective game. Players have to find the hidden text by guessing or buying letters. Each letter bought and each mistake costs points - but clever guesses soon build a big score. For a fuller account and further teaching ideas, please see the teachers' introduction.
How to play
The game starts with a frame full of blank coloured squares with only the punctuation shown. At the bottom of the frame a line shows the current score and below that are the items you can buy. Simply click on a letter at the foot of the screen and every instance of that letter will be filled in and your score will drop by ten points.
Each correct letter entered scores a point - and if you are skilful enough to enter several letters at once your score will leap dramatically!
To begin with, buy a selection of strategic vowels and consonants. Resist the temptation to buy the spaces between words unless you are truly stuck.
Try the Tennyson poem as a gentle introduction - you may recognise the poem and think of ways to explore the vocabulary and rhyme. This example also demonstrates the ability to offer a clue, to reveal parts of the text and to focus on a word class (in this case, the adjectives).
Ideas for using Revelation - and literacy links
- Using a projector and interactive whiteboard, the class attempts to reveal a poem. The importance of grammar, poetic features and accurate spelling are all demonstrated.
- After studying a poem together, students see who can complete the whole text first - and with the highest score.
- The game begins with part of a text revealed; completing the passage reinforces subject matter covered in a lesson.
Share your revelations!
Please let us know of any ideas that occur to you for using Revelation, especially for teaching aspects of literacy.
Send in your comments and examples of students' work to englishonline@actis.co.uk.
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