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Five idioms related to numbers.
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Five idioms related to names.
How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?
How many words can you find within rainbow?
Five idioms related to ducks.
What on earth is a Plexidemokinesis? 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?
How many words can you find within February?
Five idioms related to eggs.
How many words can you find within PARKING?
Five sets of idioms related to money.
What on earth is a Thermocryptograph? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.
What might a creature named “Ursolunascope” be like?
How many words can you find within airplane?
Five idioms related to body parts.
Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.
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?
What strange new fears are hiding inside Greek and Latin roots?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Five sets of idioms related to fire!
How many words can you find within LATKES?
Five idioms related to food.
What happens when Greek and Latin roots become magic spells?
How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?
Five sets of idioms related to the weather.
What on earth is a Aquamorphotron? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.
Dust can mean “remove dust” but also “add more dust!”
How many words can you find within “leopard”?
Your class will become a wonderland of imaginary creates with Greek and Latin names.
Five idioms related to water.
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 idioms related to bugs.
Five idioms related to dessert.
