Vocabulary

Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

So, which is happiest: happy, joyful, or ecstatic? Which is most temporary?

Using the word Aquamorphotron, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.

Students will go from “SKY” to “RED” by changing just one letter per step.

Using the word Chronosonarium, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.

Five sets of idioms related to money.

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 rainbow?

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Students will go from “KID” to “OLD” by changing just one letter per step.

An ongoing series to expose students to five related idioms.

Two sets of idioms related to numbers.

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

How many words can you find within TROMBONE?

Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

How many words can you find within MENORAH?

How many words can you find within WESTERN?

Using the word Hydromagnaphone, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.

Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?

How many words can you find within “leopard”?

Let’s create a new dinosaur using Greek and Latin stems!

How can we go from Biology to Immobile?

Using the word Thermocryptograph, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.

Five sets of five idioms, all related to food.

How many words can you find within TEACHER?

You won’t believe how this spelling and vocabulary puzzle will get kids’ brains sweating over the smallest of words.

How many words can you find within Ireland?

Students will go from “Sun” to “Hot” by changing just one letter per step.

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.

Students will go from “Fast” to “Race” by changing just one letter per step.

How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Five sets of idioms related to fire!

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.

Students will move from D to ASIDE by adding one letter at each step.

Does the antonym of an antonym bring us back to the same meaning?

Using the word Psycholunaphase, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.

How many words can you find within February?

Students will go from “WILD” to “TAME” by changing just one letter per step.

Students will go from “COLD” to “COOL” 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?

What might a creature named “Aquacornus Rex” be like?

How many words can you find within Saturn?

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Dust can mean “remove dust” but also “add more dust!”

Using the word Plexidemokinesis, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.

How many words can you find within “general”?

Students will go from “Work” to “Hard” by changing just one letter per step.

Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

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 LATKES?

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Students will build words using the letters found in “STUFFING.”

Students will go from “TEA” to “HOT” by changing just one letter per step.

How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?

Five sets of idioms related to birds (and bugs).

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect T and PLANET?

Students will go from “Foot” to “Shoe” by changing just one letter per step.

How many words can you find within “cranberry”?

Students will go from “Band” to “Sing” by changing just one letter per step.

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five 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.

How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Students will go from “TWO” to “SIX” by changing just one letter per step.

How many words can you find within airplane?

Students will go from “FLY” to “BEE” by changing just one letter per step.

How many words can you find within Chocolate?

Five sets of idioms related to the weather.

How many words can you find within PARKING?

Five sets of five idioms, all related to body parts!

Students will go from “ARM” to “LEG” by changing just one letter per step.

How many words can you find within COBWEB?

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

Students will go from “Fire” to “Warm” by changing just one letter per step.

How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?

Students will go from “East” to “West” by changing just one letter per step.

How many words can you find within Patrick?

What might a creature named “Hypermnemonicus” be like?

How many words can you find within WREATH?

What might a creature named “Ursolunascope” be like?

Five sets of idioms related to the color red.

Bored with typical spelling studies? Let’s dig into the origins of common English words from other languages!