The Longest Word

Have students take turns giving you a random letter from the alphabet until you have written nine letters on the board. Explain that students need to create the longest word they can from these letters in under two minutes. You may need to model this a few times. Once two minutes have passed, elicit the word length of each student's longest word. The student with the longest word is the winner. Ask this student which word he/she found, and then play again.