WORD PUZZLE

Target Group: All grades

Difficulty Level: Fundamentals Activity
Objective: To practice/reinforce good spelling
Procedure:
Divide the students into groups. Anything is fine.
Write a word/sentence on the board, but only use
dashes where the letters would normally go. For
example, write “__ __ __ __ __” for “hello.”
The groups will take turns guessing letters. If they
correctly guess a letter, they get as many points as
there are letters in the puzzle. In the previous example,
a group that guessed “e” would get one point. A group
that guessed “l” would get two points.
There is no penalty for a wrong guess. The students
can raise their hands at any time if they want to take a
shot at the whole thing.
Guessing the entire puzzle correctly gets that group
five points (or whatever denomination of your
choosing). The game can last for as short as five
minutes, or as long as fifty minutes. It depends on how
many puzzles you give the students.
Materials and Preparation: None