Vocabulary

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

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

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

What on earth is a Pyrostasis? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.

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

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

How many words can you find within Patrick?

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

How many words can you find within February?

How many words can you find within Saturn?

How many words can you find within “general”?

How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?

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.

What might a creature named “Hypermnemonicus” be like?

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 TROMBONE?

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

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?

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?

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

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

How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?

How many words can you find within WREATH?

Five sets of idioms related to the color red.

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

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

What on earth is a Aquamorphotron? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.

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

How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?

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

One letter. Add another. And another. How tall can you build the pyramid before you run out of words?

What on earth is a Hydromagnaphone? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.

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

How many words can you find within “cranberry”?

How many words can you find within WESTERN?

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

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

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

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

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

How many words are hiding inside STUFFING? More than you think.

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

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

How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?

Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.

How many words can you find within LATKES?

How many words can you find within “leopard”?

How many words can you find within rainbow?

How many words can you find within airplane?

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 MENORAH?

How many words can you find within PARKING?

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

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?

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

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

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.

Why do we say ‘break a leg’? Five themed sets of idioms your students will actually remember.

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

What on earth is a Chronosonarium? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.

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

How many words can you find within COBWEB?

What might a creature named “Ursolunascope” be like?

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

What on earth is a Geosynth? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.

How many words can you find within Chocolate?

What on earth is a Thermocryptograph? 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 Ireland?

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?

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

Two sets of idioms related to numbers.

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

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 fire!

Five sets of five idioms, all related to food.

Five sets of idioms related to the weather.

How many words can you find within TEACHER?

How can we go from Biology to Immobile?

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?