• Completing crossword puzzles
• Playing games like Scrabble, Scrabble Junior
• Writing (poems, plays, books, short stories)
• Using digital resources
• Listening to a storyteller
• Participating in debates
• Reading (choral, oral, group, interpretive)
• Literary interpretation/analysis
• Story telling
• Vocabulary activities
• Word roots and parts/language development
• Speeches/lectures/presentations
• Journal/diary keeping
• Verbal debate
• Impromptu speaking
• Humor/jokes/riddles/puns
• Class discussions
• Tape recordings
• Typing
• Word-processing
• Interviews
• Oral histories
• Foreign languages
• Acting
• Mnemonics
• Panel discussion
• Field trips to bookstores/libraries/newspapers
• Mock trial
• Teaching others
• Making dictionary/glossary
• Research studies/reports