Vocabulary
Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.
You won't believe how this spelling and vocabulary puzzle will get kids' brains sweating over the smallest of words.
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.
Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.
Let's create a new dinosaur using Greek and Latin stems!
So, which is happiest: happy, joyful, or ecstatic? Which is most temporary?
How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?
How can we go from Biology to Immobile?
An ongoing series to expose students to five related idioms.
What might a creature named "Ursolunascope" be like?
Students will go from "Fast" to "Race" by changing just one letter per step.
Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?
Does the antonym of an antonym bring us back to the same meaning?
Bored with typical spelling studies? Let's dig into the origins of common English words from other languages!
How many words can you find within "scarecrow"?
How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?
How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?
Students will go from "COLD" to "COOL" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "TWO" to "SIX" by changing just one letter per step.
How many words can you find within rainbow?
Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.
Students will build words using the letters found in "STUFFING."
How many words can you find within "cranberry"?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
How many words can you find within Chocolate?
How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?
What might a creature named "Hypermnemonicus" be like?
Using the word Aquamorphotron, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Students will go from "FLY" to "BEE" by changing just one letter per step.
How many words can you find within COBWEB?
Five sets of five idioms, all related to food.
How many words can you find within Patrick?
What might a creature named "Aquacornus Rex" be like?
How many words can you find within WREATH?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Using the word Pyrostasis, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Five sets of idioms related to birds (and bugs).
How many words can you find within airplane?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
How many words can you find within TEACHER?
Using the word Plexidemokinesis, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Students will go from "WILD" to "TAME" by changing just one letter per step.
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Students will go from "Work" to "Hard" by changing just one letter per step.
Using the word Geosynth, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Using the word Thermocryptograph, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Students will go from "East" to "West" by changing just one letter per step.
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Using the word Chronosonarium, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Students will go from "ARM" to "LEG" by changing just one letter per step.
How many words can you find within February?
How many words can you find within Ireland?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Five sets of idioms related to money.
Two sets of idioms related to numbers.
Five sets of five idioms, all related to body parts!
Using the word Psycholunaphase, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Students will go from "KID" to "OLD" by changing just one letter per step.
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Using the word Hydromagnaphone, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Students will go from "Foot" to "Shoe" by changing just one letter per step.
How many words can you find within "leopard"?
How many words can you find within "general"?
How many words can you find within LATKES?
How many words can you find within PARKING?
Students will go from "SKY" to "RED" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "Sun" to "Hot" by changing just one letter per step.
How many words can you find within Saturn?
Students will go from "TEA" to "HOT" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "Band" to "Sing" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will move from D to ASIDE by adding one letter at each step.
Five sets of idioms related to the weather.
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect T and PLANET?
Five sets of idioms related to the color red.
How many words can you find within MENORAH?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Students will go from "Fire" to "Warm" by changing just one letter per step.
Five sets of idioms related to fire!
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Dust can mean "remove dust" but also "add more dust!"
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
How many words can you find within TROMBONE?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
How many words can you find within WESTERN?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?