Explore the Caption Text Feature with Your Students

Make learning about captions fun and interactive with this engaging matching game!

Designed to help students understand the relationship between visual text features and their captions, this resource is perfect for fostering essential skills in identifying and writing captions. It contains 18 visual text feature cards (featuring images such as photographs, diagrams, maps, tables and graphs) and 18 caption cards. Students are required to match the correct image with its corresponding caption.

This resource contains:

• Instruction page
• 36 matching cards
• Recording sheet
• Answer key

This caption text feature matching game downloads as a full-color PDF or editable Google Slides file. It is recommended that you print the resource on cardstock as this will enhance the durability of the resource. Place the cards into a large envelope or ziplock bag and hey, presto! You have a fully prepared, hands-on activity to teach your students about the caption text feature.

Differentiating This Captions Game

This matching game helps students understand how captions work by directly pairing visual elements with appropriate descriptive or explanatory text.

This matching game can be used as a whole-class, small-group, pair or independent activity. Here’s how you can differentiate this captions game to support all learners:

• Support less confident students by using fewer card pairs to simplify the activity and reduce cognitive load. Provide hints or guide students in identifying matches.
• Extend more confident students by challenging them to write a different caption for a selection of images from the matching game.

Download This Caption Text Feature Game

Use the Download button above to access your preferred version of this resource. (Note: You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides template on your personal drive before accessing it.)

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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