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How many words can you find within airplane?
Five idioms related to hands.
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 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.
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
What might a creature named “Ursolunascope” be like?
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?
Five sets of idioms related to fire!
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?
Five idioms related to noses.
What useful or ridiculous inventions are hiding inside Greek and Latin roots?
Five idioms related to geese.
How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?
How many words can you find within rainbow?
Five idioms related to numbers.
What on earth is a Plexidemokinesis? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.
Five idioms related to the Greeks and Romans.
How many words can you find within PARKING?
Five idioms related to salt.
Five idioms related to birds.
Five idioms related to food.
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.
Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.
Five idioms related to mouths.
Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.
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.
How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?
How many words can you find within “cranberry”?
How many words can you find within Patrick?
How many words can you find within TROMBONE?
What on earth is a Hydromagnaphone? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.
