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Five idioms related to numbers.
How many words can you find within airplane?
Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.
What on earth is a Thermocryptograph? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Five sets of idioms related to money.
Five idioms related to names.
What might a creature named “Ursolunascope” be like?
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Five sets of idioms related to fire!
Five idioms related to ducks.
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect T and PLANET?
How many words can you find within February?
How many words can you find within “general”?
Five idioms related to eggs.
How many words can you find within rainbow?
How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?
Five idioms related to body parts.
What on earth is a Plexidemokinesis? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.
How many words can you find within PARKING?
Five idioms related to food.
Context clues lessons can be a disaster. Here, we expose students to a delightful classic packed with nonsense words (“Jabberwocky”) and ask them to decipher the meanings and parts of speech. Then, it’s only natural for students to write their own nonsense poems.
Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.
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.
Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.
How many words can you find within Patrick?
Dust can mean “remove dust” but also “add more dust!”
How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?
How many words can you find within “cranberry”?
How many words can you find within TROMBONE?
What on earth is a Hydromagnaphone? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.
How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?
Five idioms related to water.
