The Language and Concept Skills Program for Spanish Speakers consists of a lesson plan component and a tutorial component. Fifth-grade children serve as tutors to kindergarten and first-grade Spanish-speaking children learning English oral language skills. Each tutorial session is designed to take twenty-five minutes, with the final eight minutes devoted to a game. As can be seen in the accompanying sample game, the game materials consist of a score sheet with ten boxed areas, each containing a picture with a caption to be read aloud by a tutor and a path for the tutor and for the learner. A spinner is used to select one of the ten boxed areas. Seven of the ten boxed areas contain questions to be answered using the linguistic skills acquired in the most recent lesson. In each case the tutor reads the question and takes turns with the child in answering. To illustrate, a picture of a car with the caption What's this calls for the answer It's a car. A picture of a chair with the caption Is this a car or a chair calls for It's a chair. When a player answers correctly, he moves toward the goal. In each game there are three boxes which introduce the element of chance. To win, the players must move from left to right from a position marked START to a goal box marked WINNER with a star over it. The turtle race illustrated here is an example of one of the games which meets the several design criteria discussed below. Each game requires relevant skills. Each game consists of two different kinds of language experiences, one consisting of answers to questions and the other consisting of vocabulary introduced by chance situations. Correct answers to questions bring the player closer to the goal box. The chance situations introduce vocabulary that has not been taught. For example, in the gain situation in the turtle race game there is a picture of a turtle running, with an accompanying caption which the tutor reads to the child that states GO AHEAD 1 SPACE. YOUR TURTLE IS FAST. Though the word turtle has not been introduced, the picture makes the meaning of the word clear. For the same game in the loss situation the expression YOUR TURTLE IS ASLEEP introduces the expression asleep. Except for the chance situation, the questions asked of the players re-