For review or homework, you might have the children make up their own word puzzles. Give them the number of words you think they can handle and see if they can figure out how to create a puzzle. They might try out their puzzles on their parents or classmates. The software which creates the puzzles is shareware. You might want to buy this inexpensive program so that you can create your own puzzles for the students-or your students can make them for you.
Children enjoy solving and making up word puzzles.
Having fun with words is a good way to increase vocabulary skills and knowledge. This lesson was designed to accompany the acrostic puzzles written for us by David Boyd who teaches at the Appleby College in Canada. Inc. All rights reserved.