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Putting words together

Plenty of words, still arriving one at a time. "Juice." "Out." Rarely two of them joined up.

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  • A hillside with the things a child has put there by naming them, and the words still available listed underneath.

    Build My World

    90s

    Home Base decoration by voice.

    Also putting words together · more words

  • A creature coming up over the hill towards the thing it asked for, with the words it is waiting for above.

    Creature Call

    75s

    A creature hides and is frightened.

    Also willing to try · putting words together · more words

  • Two pictures labelled first and then, to be named in that order, with what it heard underneath.

    First, Then

    75s

    Pip will do exactly what he is told and nothing more.

    Also listening and following · putting words together

  • Three things to ask for in one breath -- how many, what colour and what -- with what grew in the bed below and what it heard underneath.

    Magic Garden

    90s

    Speech creates.

    Also putting words together · more words

  • A pup halfway up a ladder, put there by the word written underneath it.

    One More

    75s

    Something happens on its own -- bubbles blow, a pup gets a leg up the ladder, somebody knocks -- and then it stops and nothing else happens.

    Also back-and-forth · putting words together · more words

    Finishes without speaking

  • A shopkeeper, three things on the counter to ask for by name, and the one a child asked for politely marked as handed over.

    The Shop

    90s

    Traders want things.

    Also back-and-forth · putting words together

  • Two cards under a scene: a bear on the first one, the second still empty and dashed, with a line asking what the bear is going to eat, and one dot filled for the pair already built.

    Two Words

    75s

    Two empty cards sit under the stage and the child fills them one word at a time: somebody on the first card, something to eat on the second.

    Also putting words together · more words

    Finishes without speaking

  • Two pictures of a before and an after, the question they raise underneath, and a sentence with its middle left blank to fill in.

    Uh Oh!

    90s

    Something has gone wrong off-screen and a character who did not see it needs to be told.

    Also back-and-forth · putting words together

  • A riddle across the top, three pictures to choose between by saying which one it is, the right one ringed, and a line underneath saying the case is closed.

    Who Is It?

    90s

    A character has lost something and gives clues.

    Also back-and-forth · listening and following · putting words together

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