Often, students learn the meaning of new words as they study literature and other
subjects such as social studies and science in school. In these subject area contexts, they
often learn the definitions of these words as well as what part of speech they are and how
to use them in sentences. Students practice writing the words or matching the words to
the meanings and are often tested on them at the culmination of the curriculum unit. At
that time, the students usually move on to new words, and meanings are stored in their
memories but may not be transferred to their daily lexicon. The purpose of this research
study was to determine whether playing games as a whole class in an elementary gifted