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TEKS ELA Standard: 2.2.B.i

decoding words with short, long, or variant vowels, trigraphs, and blends

Valentine’s Day Codes
Valentine’s Day Codes
Teach your students about basic cryptography and code making.
Gr 1-5
St. Patrick’s Day Worksheets
St. Patrick’s Day Worksheets
St. Patrick Day’s themed word searches, crossword puzzle, reverse crossword, transition writing practice, and a math puzzle.
Words Within Words: February
Words Within Words: February
How many words can you find within February?
Gr 2-8
Words Within Words: Chocolate
Words Within Words: Chocolate
How many words can you find within Chocolate?
Gr 2-8
Word Ladder: Wild to Tame (5-steps)
Word Ladder: Wild to Tame (5-steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Gr 3-8
Words Within Words: PATRICK
Words Within Words: PATRICK
How many words can you find within Patrick?
Gr 2-8
Words Within Words: CORNMAZE
Words Within Words: CORNMAZE
How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?
Gr 3-8
Words Within Words: COBWEB
Words Within Words: COBWEB
How many words can you find within COBWEB?
Gr 3-8
Words Within Words: WREATH
Words Within Words: WREATH
How many words can you find within WREATH?
Gr 3-8
Words Within Words: SCARECROW
Words Within Words: SCARECROW
How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?
Gr 2-8
Words Within Words: CRANBERRY
Words Within Words: CRANBERRY
How many words can you find within “cranberry”?
Gr 3-8
Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)
Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)
Now let’s try the Path Cipher – a cipher that mixes things up even more than Zig Zag did.
Gr 1-8
Pig Pen Cipher (Codes Part 2)
Pig Pen Cipher (Codes Part 2)
Let’s encode some secret messages with a cipher that was actually used during the American Civil War!
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8
Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)
Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)
Let’s encode and decode secret messages like Julius Caesar!
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: Intro (SOLDIER)
Words Within Words: Intro (SOLDIER)
How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?
Gr 3-8
Words Within Words: WESTERN
Words Within Words: WESTERN
How many words can you find within WESTERN?
Gr 3-8
Words Within Words: TEACHER
Words Within Words: TEACHER
How many words can you find within TEACHER?
Gr 3-8
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?
Gr 3-8
Words Within Words: PARKING
Words Within Words: PARKING
How many words can you find within PARKING?
Gr 3-8
Words Within Words: TROMBONE
Words Within Words: TROMBONE
How many words can you find within TROMBONE?
Gr 3-8
Words Within Words: AIRPLANE
Words Within Words: AIRPLANE
How many words can you find within airplane?
Gr 3-8
Words Within Words: LEOPARD
Words Within Words: LEOPARD
How many words can you find within “leopard”?
Gr 3-8
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?
Gr 3-8
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?
Gr 3-8
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?
Gr 3-8
Word Ladder: Fast to Race (4 step)
Word Ladder: Fast to Race (4 step)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Gr 3-8
Word Ladder: Sky to Red (5-steps)
Word Ladder: Sky to Red (5-steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Gr 3-8
Word Ladder – Sun to Hot (5-steps)
Word Ladder – Sun to Hot (5-steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Gr 3-8
Ghost
Ghost
Ghost is a word-building game for two players. The first person to create an actual word loses.
Gr 1-4
Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER
Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER
How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?
Gr 3-8