Vocabulary

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five 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.

Using the word Chronosonarium, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.

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

Five sets of idioms related to money.

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

Students will go from “ARM” to “LEG” by changing just one letter per step.

Students will go from “KID” to “OLD” by changing just one letter per step.

Two sets of idioms related to numbers.

How many words can you find within “cranberry”?

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

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

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 the weather.

Five sets of five idioms, all related to food.

Using the word Geosynth, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.

Using the word Thermocryptograph, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.

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

Using the word Plexidemokinesis, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.

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

How many words can you find within PARKING?

Students will go from “TWO” to “SIX” by changing just one letter per step.

Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.

Students will go from “SKY” to “RED” by changing just one letter per step.

How many words can you find within WREATH?

How can we go from Biology to Immobile?

Five sets of idioms related to the color red.

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

How many words can you find within “leopard”?

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

How many words can you find within February?

How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?

How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?

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

Students will build words using the letters found in “STUFFING.”

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

How many words can you find within TROMBONE?

How many words can you find within Saturn?

Students will go from “TEA” to “HOT” by changing just one letter per step.

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

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

Students will go from “Fast” to “Race” by changing just one letter per step.

How many words can you find within WESTERN?

Students will go from “East” to “West” by changing just one letter per step.

Students will go from “Sun” to “Hot” by changing just one letter per step.

How many words can you find within MENORAH?

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 LATKES?

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

How many words can you find within Ireland?

Students will go from “COLD” to “COOL” 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?

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 Chocolate?

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

Students will go from “WILD” to “TAME” by changing just one letter per step.

How many words can you find within TEACHER?

How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?

Using the word Aquamorphotron, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.

Using the word Hydromagnaphone, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.

Using the word Psycholunaphase, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.

Five sets of idioms related to fire!

Students will go from “Foot” to “Shoe” by changing just one letter per step.

Students will go from “Band” to “Sing” by changing just one letter per step.

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?

An ongoing series to expose students to five related idioms.

How many words can you find within airplane?

What might a creature named “Hypermnemonicus” be like?

How many words can you find within rainbow?

How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?

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

How many words can you find within “general”?

How many words can you find within Patrick?

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

Students will go from “Fire” to “Warm” by changing just one letter per step.

Students will go from “FLY” to “BEE” by changing just one letter per step.

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

Students will go from “Work” to “Hard” 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 COBWEB?

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

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

Students will move from D to ASIDE by adding one letter at each step.

Using the word Pyrostasis, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.

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

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

Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?