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creatures
Colored
Colored creatures
Time yourself as you say out loud the color As in the mixed-messagess
y
y
y
g
and the animal pictured behind the word for game, it is harder to ignore the e
word. We have to stop the
or
oup
the
gr
eft
xampl
F
e
the group of animals on the left. For example, w o r d .W eh a v et os t o pt h e
on
animals
the
e
of
l
automatic reading response
the first one is a blue rabbit. Then do the
in or der to perf orm the task
in order to perform the task,
same for the group of animals on the right
and this slows us down.
and c ompar e the two times
and compare the two times.
Sheep Sheep
rs
Horsee
Ho
Rabbit
Goat Pig
Cat
Tiger
Tiger Cat Elephant
Dog
Dog

Horse
Goat Bird
Bird

nt
ha
El El ep hant
Elephant
ep
Pig Rabbit
Dog

Like and unlike Like
Like and unlike
This game tests your knowledge of how words nice, hungry, work starving, cat, strong
py
pp
relate to one another. In the top game, pick two tired, cut, include apple, sleepy, worse
,p
pg
words from each line—one from the left side and scary, trash, party top, fish, spooky
y
g
one from the right—that are closest in meaning. friend, banana, silly catch, grow, foolish
g
g
Now do the same for the game below, but this
p
p
time pick the two words that are opposites. Unlike
p
hide, distant, praise scorn, blink, listen
g
,
,
p,
sharp, chew, edge bite, center, strange
,
g
twist, rational, puzzle untidy, illogical, test
tr
el
av
crawl, leave, start
eturn
cr awl l eav e s t art r return, walk, travel
walk
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