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?
An ongoing series to expose students to five related idioms.
How can we go from Biology to Immobile?
How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?
Students will go from "Fast" to "Race" by changing just one letter per step.
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!
What might a creature named "Ursolunascope" be like?
Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?
Students will go from "COLD" to "COOL" by changing just one letter per step.
How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?
Students will go from "TWO" to "SIX" by changing just one letter per step.
How many words can you find within "scarecrow"?
Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.
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 rainbow?
Five sets of five idioms, all related to food.
Students will build words using the letters found in "STUFFING."
Using the word Aquamorphotron, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Five sets of idioms related to birds (and bugs).
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
How many words can you find within COBWEB?
How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?
How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?
What might a creature named "Hypermnemonicus" be like?
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 WREATH?
Using the word Chronosonarium, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Two sets of idioms related to numbers.
Using the word Pyrostasis, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Five sets of five idioms, all related to body parts!
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Using the word Geosynth, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Five sets of idioms related to money.
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
How many words can you find within TEACHER?
How many words can you find within "general"?
How many words can you find within airplane?
How many words can you find within "leopard"?
How many words can you find within Patrick?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Using the word Plexidemokinesis, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Using the word Hydromagnaphone, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
What might a creature named "Aquacornus Rex" be like?
Using the word Thermocryptograph, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Using the word Psycholunaphase, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Five sets of idioms related to the weather.
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
How many words can you find within Ireland?
How many words can you find within Saturn?
How many words can you find within PARKING?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Students will move from D to ASIDE by adding one letter at each step.
How many words can you find within LATKES?
Five sets of idioms related to fire!
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?
Five sets of idioms related to the color red.
Students will go from "Work" to "Hard" by changing just one letter per step.
How many words can you find within WESTERN?
How many words can you find within TROMBONE?
Students will go from "FLY" to "BEE" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "East" to "West" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "Foot" to "Shoe" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "TEA" to "HOT" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "KID" to "OLD" by changing just one letter per step.
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect T and PLANET?
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?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Students will go from "WILD" to "TAME" 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?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Students will go from "ARM" to "LEG" by changing just one letter per step.
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.
Students will go from "Band" to "Sing" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "Fire" to "Warm" by changing just one letter per step.