Today Gwendolyn played a new academic game called, Bananagrams. The game uses elements of both Boggle and Scrabble - it is similar to Boggle in the sense that game play is simultaneous, yet players build interlocking puzzles similar to those in Scrabble. Because Bananagrams can be played by players at any reading level, the game is useful for students who are learning to spell and phonics rules. While playing, Gwendolyn learned many different phonics rules that helped her to successfully build words. Bananagrams is a game that stimulates creativity because the goal is to play all of one's tiles, which generates a need to configure and reconfigure one's word grid to accept all of the letters. Gwendolyn did this many times during the game and was quite excited at her ability to break apart words and use the letters to build better words elsewhere. At the end of the session, Gwendolyn shared that she liked the game so much that she wants to play again next week.