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Arizona ELA Standard: 3.RF.3

Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding one-syllable or multisyllabic words.

Valentine’s Day Codes

Valentine’s Day Codes

Teach your students about basic cryptography and code making.

Psycholunaphase (Greek and Latin)

Psycholunaphase (Greek and Latin)

What on earth is a Psycholunaphase? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent the creature, device, or spell it describes.

Hydromagnaphone (Greek and Latin)

Hydromagnaphone (Greek and Latin)

What on earth is a Hydromagnaphone? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.

Words Within Words: SCARECROW

Words Within Words: SCARECROW

How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?

Words Within Words: CRANBERRY

Words Within Words: CRANBERRY

How many words can you find within “cranberry”?

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.

Zig Zag Cipher (Codes Part 3)

Zig Zag Cipher (Codes Part 3)

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

Pig Pen Cipher (Codes Part 2)

Pig Pen Cipher (Codes Part 2)

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

Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)

Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)

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

Words Within Words: Intro (SOLDIER)

Words Within Words: Intro (SOLDIER)

How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?

Analyze Suffixes: -ly, -less, and -ful

Analyze Suffixes: -ly, -less, and -ful

What exactly does adding -less do to a word?

Jotto

Jotto

Who can guess the codeword first?

Bulls and Cows

Bulls and Cows

How quickly can you break the numeric code?

Ghost

Ghost

Ghost is a word-building game for two players. The first person to create an actual word loses.

Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER

Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER

How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?