Welcome Classroom Teachers!   

Baffle Gab™ makes it easy for elementary and middle school language arts teachers to reinforce spelling, vocabulary, sentence-structure, grammar, reading, word usage, and math.

Watch this webpage for new game variations and suggestions for classroom adaptation.

Classroom Educator Benefits

This curriculum-based game is fun, flexible, and fast.

Baffle Gab™ uses a cognitive systems approach to learning writing, reading, vocabulary, and spelling skills. First it introduces the problem – 5 cards with which students are asked to use to write a story. It then offers students an opportunity to practice their writing skills and repeat that practice with each round of play. As skills improve, the task can be adapted to accommodate newly-attained skill levels. Again, the task is practiced and repeated developing better and better refinements to the skills acquired with more challenge available by adapting the game.

The game is very adaptable to a variety of ages, skill levels, and ways to have fun while learning. See also Variations for Play , Home schooling , and ESL/Adult Literacy pages.

A note on scoring and Bone Bucks: Students between the ages of 8 and 12, utilize the Bone Bucks quite well, learning real world skills such as making change. Older students usually prefer to keep score by adding totals on paper. Baffle Gab™ is so adaptable that high school students enjoy playing the game as well, though they often want to work with more than 5 words.

Play is the way children gain solid skills.  With Baffle Gab™ kids learn while having fun. Baffle Gab’s™ flexibility makes it perfect for classrooms, home schooling, and ESL/adult literacy.  Everyone has a story to tell.  The quick 1-minute rounds plus Gabby’s fun choice of word cards entice even the most reluctant writers. 

Baffle Gab™ engages children, without computer or television screens, in real-time activities with peers, parents, and extended family.