Alabama ELA Standard: 5.LF.1

Apply phonics and word analysis skills to encode and decode words in grade-level texts.

Valentine’s Day Codes

Teach your students about basic cryptography and code making.

Now let’s try the Path Cipher – a cipher that mixes things up even more than Zig Zag did.

Let’s try a cipher that doesn’t substitute new letters or shapes. We just mix things up.

Let’s encode some secret messages with a cipher that was actually used during the American Civil War!

Let’s encode and decode secret messages like Julius Caesar!