A crossword clue might be “a fruit with yellow skin.”. Your answer must fit in the grid. The word for this clue has six boxes. To fill in those boxes, you need to answer the clue with the word “banana.”...
Students can also create flashcards that have the word on one side and the definition on the other side and can create crossword puzzles using the definition of the word as the clue. They then swap papers with another student and fill in the crossword. ...
11) Seven Little Words for Kids This is not meant to be “educational” but I find it to be a great vocabulary builder for the 4th-6th grade crowd. It’s a simple game of synonyms. You are given a clue, similar to a crossword puzzle, but are provided with word fragments that must...
But research findings, mixed as they are, hardly spur me to continue struggling with clues that sometimes drives me batty (e.g., in a recentTimescrossword, the clue is “a buck or two” with a four letter word as the answer; yes, it is “deer”). So be it. I get immersed in ...
A great first day activity is the “I Can’t Funeral”. Distribute a small piece of paper to each student for them to write at least one thing they think they cannot do academically. Such as “I can’t do word problems,” or “I can’t read well.” Collect the papers, place them...
each picks up the sheet and a book and joins me on the rug for a class meeting. They hand the sheets to me and read quietly while the rest of the class finishes the task. Then I introduce the activity. I hand an anonymous Clue Sheet to each student. If a student ends up with his...
My last sixth-grade class was more at the behavioral midpoint, but I had help. A paraprofessional assigned to assist a boy who used a wheelchair said the student, Craig, rarely needed help with his work, so he usually checked on other kids in the class. ...
An out-of-work architect named Alfred M. Butts created a game during the Depression where lettered tiles were assigned points on a crossword puzzle-style grid. Butts came up with names for the game like CrissCross Words and Lexiko before licensing the idea to James Brunot,who called it Sc...
An out-of-work architect named Alfred M. Butts created a game during the Depression where lettered tiles were assigned points on a crossword puzzle-style grid. Butts came up with names for the game like CrissCross Words and Lexiko before licensing the idea to James Brunot,who called it Sc...
A 16-year-old Encina High School student and a 21-year-old San Francisco girl were dead Saturday as the result of two separate traffic accidents in Sacramento and Placer counties. They are Michael T. Schirle, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Schirle, 1404 Hesket Way, and Judith Lee Ste...