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Tired of the same old study guides and quizzes when reviewing literature? Turn your classroom into a stage for learning with an interactive literary game!
Thanks to the VariQuest Learning Suite, teachers can create fully interactive, visually engaging lessons — with less prep time and more student impact. Join Jordan Croft, one of our Education Consultants as she shows how to bring your next class review to life, step by step.
✨ Why do Smart Tools make interactive lessons easier?
Interactive lessons transform passive review into active learning. Students retain more when they move, collaborate, and think critically — and games offer a natural structure for all of that.
The challenge? Creating materials takes time! That’s where VariQuest’s Learning Suite comes in.
With tools like the Perfecta, Cutout Maker, and Motiva, you can design, print, and assemble everything you need for an immersive review experience — all from your school workroom.
Step 1: Set the Scene with an Interactive Banner
Use the Perfecta Printer to print a bold, thematic banner for your classroom or hallway. VariQuest has 1000s of pre-made templates to get you started — perfect for showcasing your game title or creating a large game board to hang in your room.
Step 2: Easy Game Pieces with the Cutout Maker
The Cutout Maker offers a huge library of shapes that can easily become your game pieces, tokens, or even part of a game board.
- Use hearts for “Love” category questions, daggers for “Conflict,” or masks for “Character Analysis.”
- Create character tokens (Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, etc.) for team identities or turn-based play.
- Design a floor or wall game board using arrows, steps, or scene-based icons that players move across.
Let students physically move across the game space — it’s a great way to bring kinesthetic learning into literature.
Step 3: Make Custom Game Cards with the Motiva
The Motiva makes it easy to create durable, reusable game cards that work for reading aloud, team play, or individual challenges.
- Quote Cards: “Who said this line?” (e.g., ‘What light through yonder window breaks?’)
- Scene Scrambles: Put events from an act out of order — students must reorder them correctly
- Discussion Prompts: “Do you agree with Juliet’s decision in Act IV?”
- Quick Fire Rounds: Vocabulary, literary devices, or theme identification with examples from your class’s current read
You can laminate these cards for repeated use, and even have students help create their own questions to add to the mix.
🚀 Making Differentiated Instruction Easy & Quick
You already have creative ideas. We give you the tools to bring your vision to life — quickly, efficiently, and beautifully. Here's what makes these Smart Tools teacher-friendly:
- Ready-to-use templates aligned with curriculum standards
- Editing simplicity for customizing templates in the Design Center
- Fast production of classroom-ready materials
- Durable, reusable outputs that save you time long-term
Whether you're prepping for a full unit review or want to add one day of interactive play, VariQuest tools help you make it happen — without spending hours at your desk.
