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Arizona ELA Standard: 1.RF.3.b

Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

Valentine’s Day Codes
Valentine’s Day Codes
Teach your students about basic cryptography and code making.
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: Chocolate
Words Within Words: Chocolate
How many words can you find within Chocolate?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: IRELAND
Words Within Words: IRELAND
How many words can you find within Ireland?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: CORNMAZE
Words Within Words: CORNMAZE
How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: COBWEB
Words Within Words: COBWEB
How many words can you find within COBWEB?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: CRANBERRY
Words Within Words: CRANBERRY
How many words can you find within “cranberry”?
Gr 1-5
Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)
Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)
Now let’s try the Path Cipher – a cipher that mixes things up even more than Zig Zag did.
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8
Words Within Words: Intro (SOLDIER)
Words Within Words: Intro (SOLDIER)
How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: WESTERN
Words Within Words: WESTERN
How many words can you find within WESTERN?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: TEACHER
Words Within Words: TEACHER
How many words can you find within TEACHER?
Gr 1-5
Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE
Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE
One letter. Add another. And another. How tall can you build the pyramid before you run out of words?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: PARKING
Words Within Words: PARKING
How many words can you find within PARKING?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: AIRPLANE
Words Within Words: AIRPLANE
How many words can you find within airplane?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: SATURN
Words Within Words: SATURN
How many words can you find within Saturn?
Gr 1-5
Word Pyramid: H to CRASH
Word Pyramid: H to CRASH
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Gr 1-5
Word Ladder: Work to Hard (4 Steps)
Word Ladder: Work to Hard (4 Steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Gr 1-5
Word Ladder: Two to Six (6-steps)
Word Ladder: Two to Six (6-steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Gr 1-5
Word Ladder: Sky to Red (5-steps)
Word Ladder: Sky to Red (5-steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Gr 1-5
Jotto
Jotto
Who can guess the codeword first?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: MENORAH
Words Within Words: MENORAH
How many words can you find within MENORAH?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER
Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER
How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?
Gr 1-5