P I Z ZA Z
People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling

PIZZAZ has been an Online Resource since 1995 from Leslie Opp-Beckman
For Scribblers and Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)

Instructions

Students can build the game using paper as a set of open-and-shut "windows" or "doors" (squares), or it can be designed as a website with clickable squares. See example of a clickable website for the city of: Eugene, Oregon, USA.

1. Students work individually, in pairs or in small groups and choose a central theme or topic as a focus point for their games (having students choose different topics will create more opportunities for sharing and reading afterward).
   
   
2. The game board should have a "window" or "door" for each letter of the alphabet. Build the game so that each letter of the alphabet in the game represents something about that central theme. Put the matching answer behind each letter of the alphabet. For example, in the Eugene, Oregon, USA game, A = Arts in the Planet Eugene publication; B = Bijou Theater; C = Club Sports on the University of Oregon campus, etc..
   
   
3. Can you guess what the answers will be?
   When the game is built, students from other pairs or groups open the paper windows or click on the letters to discover the answers. The game board may look something like the following.
   

Variations

• If you are in poetry mode, the words in each row can rhyme.
• If you are working on a specific grammar point, you can require that the words all match in that way (e.g. all nouns, or all gerunds, or all past tense verbs, etc.).