Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.
You won't believe how this spelling and vocabulary puzzle will get kids' brains sweating over the smallest of 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.
Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.
Let's create a new dinosaur using Greek and Latin stems!
How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?
So, which is happiest: happy, joyful, or ecstatic? Which is most temporary?
How can we go from Biology to Immobile?
An ongoing series to expose students to five related idioms.
Students will go from "Fast" to "Race" by changing just one letter per step.
What might a creature named "Ursolunascope" be like?
Does the antonym of an antonym bring us back to the same meaning?
Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?
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?
Students will go from "COLD" to "COOL" by changing just one letter per step.
How many words can you find within rainbow?
Students will go from "TWO" to "SIX" by changing just one letter per step.
How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?
How many words can you find within "scarecrow"?
Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.
How many words can you find within "cranberry"?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
How many words can you find within COBWEB?
Students will build words using the letters found in "STUFFING."
Using the word Aquamorphotron, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Five sets of five idioms, all related to food.
What might a creature named "Hypermnemonicus" be like?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Five sets of idioms related to birds (and bugs).
Students will go from "FLY" to "BEE" by changing just one letter per step.
How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?
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.
How many words can you find within WREATH?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
How many words can you find within TEACHER?
Using the word Geosynth, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
How many words can you find within airplane?
Using the word Chronosonarium, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
How many words can you find within Patrick?
How many words can you find within "general"?
What might a creature named "Aquacornus Rex" be like?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Two sets of idioms related to numbers.
Five sets of five idioms, all related to body parts!
Using the word Plexidemokinesis, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
How many words can you find within "leopard"?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Five sets of idioms related to money.
Using the word Hydromagnaphone, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Students will go from "Work" to "Hard" by changing just one letter per step.
Using the word Thermocryptograph, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Students will go from "WILD" to "TAME" by changing just one letter per step.
Using the word Psycholunaphase, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Students will go from "Foot" to "Shoe" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "East" to "West" by changing just one letter per step.
How many words can you find within Ireland?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Five sets of idioms related to the weather.
How many words can you find within PARKING?
How many words can you find within Saturn?
Students will move from D to ASIDE by adding one letter at each step.
Students will go from "Band" to "Sing" 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?
How many words can you find within LATKES?
Students will go from "KID" to "OLD" by changing just one letter per step.
Five sets of idioms related to the color red.
Students will go from "TEA" to "HOT" by changing just one letter per step.
How many words can you find within MENORAH?
Five sets of idioms related to fire!
Students will go from "SKY" to "RED" 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?
Students will go from "ARM" to "LEG" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "Fire" to "Warm" 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?
How many words can you find within TROMBONE?
Students will go from "Sun" to "Hot" 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?
How many words can you find within WESTERN?
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 the starting point and ending point?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect T and PLANET?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?