This version is mainly a facility for a teacher setting a task concentrating on some aspect of grammar. After choosing a story, you can reveal chosen categories of word — short words, long words, content words, determiners/pronouns, auxiliary verbs, prepositions/conjunctions, adverbs, numbers, or capitalised words — before guessing begins, then either play the rest on screen or print the part-concealed text as a worksheet.
Select a story to play:
There's also a read-aloud version — based on the old blackboard technique of reading a text aloud several times, erasing a bit more of it (by word category) before each reading, with a silent pause standing in for each missing word.