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Five idioms related to numbers.
How many words can you find within “general”?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect T and PLANET?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Five idioms related to geese.
Five sets of idioms related to fire!
Five idioms related to salt.
Five sets of idioms related to money.
Five idioms related to birds.
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
What on earth is a Thermocryptograph? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
What might a creature named “Ursolunascope” be like?
How many words can you find within airplane?
Five idioms related to the Greeks and Romans.
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 Plexidemokinesis? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.
Five idioms related to hands.
How many words can you find within PARKING?
Five idioms related to noses.
What useful or ridiculous inventions are hiding inside Greek and Latin roots?
How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?
How many words can you find within rainbow?
How many words can you find within TROMBONE?
Five idioms related to feet.
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 “cranberry”?
How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?
How many words can you find within Patrick?
Your class will become a wonderland of imaginary creates with Greek and Latin names.
Five idioms related to hands and fingers.
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.
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.
Five sets of idioms related to the weather.
