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Antagonyms: Dust, Clip, and Left
Antagonyms: Dust, Clip, and Left
Dust can mean “remove dust” but also “add more dust!”
Words Within Words: February
Words Within Words: February
How many words can you find within February?
Words Within Words: Chocolate
Words Within Words: Chocolate
How many words can you find within Chocolate?
Word Ladder: Fly to Bee (6-steps)
Word Ladder: Fly to Bee (6-steps)
Students will go from “FLY” to “BEE” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Wild to Tame (5-steps)
Word Ladder: Wild to Tame (5-steps)
Students will go from “WILD” to “TAME” by changing just one letter per step.
Words Within Words: PATRICK
Words Within Words: PATRICK
How many words can you find within Patrick?
Words Within Words: RAINBOW
Words Within Words: RAINBOW
How many words can you find within rainbow?
Words Within Words: IRELAND
Words Within Words: IRELAND
How many words can you find within Ireland?
Words Within Words: LATKES
Words Within Words: LATKES
How many words can you find within LATKES?
Words Within Words: CORNMAZE
Words Within Words: CORNMAZE
How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?
Words Within Words: COBWEB
Words Within Words: COBWEB
How many words can you find within COBWEB?
Plexidemokinesis (Greek and Latin)
Plexidemokinesis (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Plexidemokinesis, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Psycholunaphase (Greek and Latin)
Psycholunaphase (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Psycholunaphase, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Hydromagnaphone (Greek and Latin)
Hydromagnaphone (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Hydromagnaphone, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Geosynth (Greek and Latin)
Geosynth (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Geosynth, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Thermocryptograph (Greek and Latin)
Thermocryptograph (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Thermocryptograph, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Aquamorphotron (Greek and Latin)
Aquamorphotron (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Aquamorphotron, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Chronosonarium (Greek and Latin)
Chronosonarium (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Chronosonarium, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Pyrostasis (Greek and Latin)
Pyrostasis (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Pyrostasis, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Greekymon Studies – Round 3
Greekymon Studies – Round 3
What might a creature named “Aquacornus Rex” be like?
Greekymon Studies – Round 2
Greekymon Studies – Round 2
What might a creature named “Hypermnemonicus” be like?
Greekymon Studies – Round 1
Greekymon Studies – Round 1
What might a creature named “Ursolunascope” be like?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Theta
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Theta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Eta
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Eta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Zeta
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Zeta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Epsilon
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Epsilon
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Delta
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Delta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Gamma
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Gamma
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Beta
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Beta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Alpha
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Alpha
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Words Within Words: ORNAMENT
Words Within Words: ORNAMENT
How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?
Words Within Words: WREATH
Words Within Words: WREATH
How many words can you find within WREATH?
Words Within Words: SCARECROW
Words Within Words: SCARECROW
How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?
Words Within Words: CRANBERRY
Words Within Words: CRANBERRY
How many words can you find within “cranberry”?
Words Within Words: STUFFING
Words Within Words: STUFFING
Students will build words using the letters found in “STUFFING.”
Words Within Words: GENERAL
Words Within Words: GENERAL
How many words can you find within “general”?
Words Within Words: Intro (SOLDIER)
Words Within Words: Intro (SOLDIER)
How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?
Words Within Words: WESTERN
Words Within Words: WESTERN
How many words can you find within WESTERN?
Words Within Words: TEACHER
Words Within Words: TEACHER
How many words can you find within TEACHER?
Idioms About Money
Idioms About Money
Five sets of idioms related to money.
Word Pyramids
Word Pyramids
Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?
Idioms About Fire
Idioms About Fire
Five sets of idioms related to fire!
Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE
Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE
Students will move from D to ASIDE by adding one letter at each step.
Word Pyramid: M to CAMPUS
Word Pyramid: M to CAMPUS
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Word Pyramid: U to Brush
Word Pyramid: U to Brush
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Idiom Tasks
Idiom Tasks
Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.
Words Within Words: PARKING
Words Within Words: PARKING
How many words can you find within PARKING?
Idioms about Weather
Idioms about Weather
Five sets of idioms related to the weather.
Words Within Words: TROMBONE
Words Within Words: TROMBONE
How many words can you find within TROMBONE?
Idioms About Red
Idioms About Red
Five sets of idioms related to the color red.
Words Within Words: AIRPLANE
Words Within Words: AIRPLANE
How many words can you find within airplane?
Words Within Words: LEOPARD
Words Within Words: LEOPARD
How many words can you find within “leopard”?
Words Within Words: SATURN
Words Within Words: SATURN
How many words can you find within Saturn?
Sets of Idioms Related to Numbers
Sets of Idioms Related to Numbers
Two sets of idioms related to numbers.
Five Sets of Bird and Bug Idioms
Five Sets of Bird and Bug Idioms
Five sets of idioms related to birds (and bugs).
Word Pyramid: P to PLAINS
Word Pyramid: P to PLAINS
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Word Pyramid: T to PLANET
Word Pyramid: T to PLANET
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect T and PLANET?
Word Pyramid: O to Stones
Word Pyramid: O to Stones
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Word Pyramid: I to LIONS
Word Pyramid: I to LIONS
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Sets of Idioms Related to Body Parts
Sets of Idioms Related to Body Parts
Five sets of five idioms, all related to body parts!
Sets of Idioms Related to Food
Sets of Idioms Related to Food
Five sets of five idioms, all related to food.
Word Pyramid: T to Patch
Word Pyramid: T to Patch
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Word Pyramid: H to CRASH
Word Pyramid: H to CRASH
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Greek and Latin Word Part Paths
Greek and Latin Word Part Paths
How can we go from Biology to Immobile?
Antonym Paths
Antonym Paths
Does the antonym of an antonym bring us back to the same meaning?
Word Ladder: East to West (4 Steps)
Word Ladder: East to West (4 Steps)
Students will go from “East” to “West” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Work to Hard (4 Steps)
Word Ladder: Work to Hard (4 Steps)
Students will go from “Work” to “Hard” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Two to Six (6-steps)
Word Ladder: Two to Six (6-steps)
Students will go from “TWO” to “SIX” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder – Cold to Cool (5-Steps)
Word Ladder – Cold to Cool (5-Steps)
Students will go from “COLD” to “COOL” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Fast to Race (4 step)
Word Ladder: Fast to Race (4 step)
Students will go from “Fast” to “Race” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Arm to Leg (6-steps)
Word Ladder: Arm to Leg (6-steps)
Students will go from “ARM” to “LEG” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Kid to Old (5-steps)
Word Ladder: Kid to Old (5-steps)
Students will go from “KID” to “OLD” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Sky to Red (5-steps)
Word Ladder: Sky to Red (5-steps)
Students will go from “SKY” to “RED” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder – Sun to Hot (5-steps)
Word Ladder – Sun to Hot (5-steps)
Students will go from “Sun” to “Hot” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder – Tea to Hot (5-steps)
Word Ladder – Tea to Hot (5-steps)
Students will go from “TEA” to “HOT” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Band to Sing (4 Steps)
Word Ladder: Band to Sing (4 Steps)
Students will go from “Band” to “Sing” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Foot to Shoe (4 Steps)
Word Ladder: Foot to Shoe (4 Steps)
Students will go from “Foot” to “Shoe” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Fire to Warm (4 Steps)
Word Ladder: Fire to Warm (4 Steps)
Students will go from “Fire” to “Warm” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladders Introduction
Word Ladders Introduction
You won’t believe how this spelling and vocabulary puzzle will get kids’ brains sweating over the smallest of words.
Words Within Words: MENORAH
Words Within Words: MENORAH
How many words can you find within MENORAH?
Sets of Idioms
Sets of Idioms
An ongoing series to expose students to five related idioms.
Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER
Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER
How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?
Synonym Graphs
Synonym Graphs
So, which is happiest: happy, joyful, or ecstatic? Which is most temporary?
Jabberwocky and Context Clues
Jabberwocky and Context Clues
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.
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Introduction
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Introduction
Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.
Ongoing Greek and Latin Word Part Activities
Ongoing Greek and Latin Word Part Activities
Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.
Common English Words From Other Languages
Common English Words From Other Languages
Bored with typical spelling studies? Let’s dig into the origins of common English words from other languages!
Greek and Latin Dinosaur Names
Greek and Latin Dinosaur Names
Let’s create a new dinosaur using Greek and Latin stems!