Essential Skills for Playing
Board Games and Cards
Essential Skill
Tasks performed
Reading Text
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Read game instructions
Read Trivial Pursuit game cards
Document Use
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Use Yahtzee score cards
Read game boards
Numeracy
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Purchase cards and board games
Use Monopoly game money
Keep score during Cribbage games
Writing
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Write up a fake definition in Balderdash
Oral
Communication
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Guess aloud various answers in Charades
Play with others and conduct friendly conversation
Working with
Others
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Play Cranium against and with others
Be a good winner and loser
Thinking Skills
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Make choices when playing Checkers
Make the best Poker hand out of the cards you have
Computer Use
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Play board and card games online
Research various game playing instructions
Download a new game
Continuous
Learning
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Learn to play Bridge or Chess
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