Educational game apparatus

Claim 1

An educational game apparatus to improve a player's sight reading, sentence composition, and parsing skills comprising in combination: a plurality of game boards, each having a plasticized upper surface and each having designated thereon a plurality of adjoining columns and a plurality of perpendicularly intersecting adjoining rows defining a plurality of frames, and a plurality of language elements printed within said frames, each frame imprinted with a distinct language element, all words of said language elements being on the same line, one of said frames located in the center of each game board being designated as a "free" frame and containing a connective language element therein; a plurality of planar members, each having imprinted thereon a distinct language element, said plurality of planar members forming a pool from which language elements are selected at random; a master board for use by an instructor for arrangement thereon of said planar members after they have been randomly selected; a container for holding said plurality of planar members from which they are randomly selected; a plurality of markers, one of which is to be placed over a frame on said game boards corresponding to the language element on said planar member selected at random from said container, said game continuing until a player has formed with said markers on his game board a preselected pattern of markers, said language elements beneath said markers to be arranged into sentences utilizing two or more of said language elements, the winning player being determined by the number and complexity of sentences so constructed; a plurality of rectangular plastic films, each removably positioned upon each of said frames, each imprinted with the same language element imprinted on the frame beneath it, said plastic films adhering to said game boards' plasticized surface when placed theron; a plurality of composition boards, one utilized in conjunction with each of said game boards, each of said composition boards having a plasticized surface upon which said plastic films can be removably positioned and arranged to form sentences; and elevated borders around each frame on each of said game boards to assist in the repositioning of said plastic films and to prevent accidental movement of said plastic films when said plastic films are in position on their respective frames of said game boards.