C-03.05 Solve 7 Simple Puzzles in 3 Everyday Categories of Meaning

 21 Reproducible Vocabulary-Puzzle Worksheets with Corresponding Answer Key Pages

First Half of Picture This Too! A Vocabulary Puzzle Book 

23 Pages                        

Who They’re For: High Beginning English Learners and Developing Readers in Elementary or Middle School.  Teachers & Helpers.    

Why You Need Them: Once they get the hang of various puzzle types, language students enjoy and become proficient at following instructions to solve them. These 21 pages from the first half of Picture This, Too! A Vocabulary Puzzle Book motivate word recognition and spelling (arrangement of letters). 

What You’ll Do: 

[1] For each of three common, practical content Categories (Things in a House, Foods, Things to Play With), fill in spaces containing words according to “Color Codes” to make pictures appear. Do the same in spaces with letters to unscramble the names of “Hidden Pictures.” Draw lines through paths to cross letters that spell “Maze Words.”   

[2] For more vocabulary in the same content areas, complete four more kinds of familiar puzzles (Word Search, Crossword, Rebus, Scrambled Words). Circle, print, and arrange letters that spell more vocabulary words.

[3] Compare your solutions with those shown in the Answer Key.  

[4] Use your new vocabulary in talking or writing about the targeted subject areas. Learn other useful words in the same categories of meaning.