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September 4, 2012 | 17 Comments

Does The Word Fit ? Simple Word Puzzles For Kids

While doing a purge of toys in our playroom I found 3 cheap puzzles I bought years ago that have never once been played with. I popped two into the donate box but kept one to make these  easy word puzzles for my son. The unique thing about these word puzzles is that the shape of pieces help give the players clues to the correct word choice. This goes along with the question that we often ask new readers as they work on reading new words ” Does the word fit?” and this game helps work on those new reader skills.

  1. Gather your materials. Both of these games require almost nothing. Puzzle pieces, markers and paper.

Rhyming Game

  1. Write out a few pages with something along the lines of ” These words rhyme with ____.” Make sure to use words that your child can read for the main word on the paper. For the matching words you write on the puzzle pieces add one or two words that may challenge them a little. Trace the puzzle pieces on the paper for an added clue.
  2. After writing out a few pages and corresponding pieces with rhyming words add a few puzzle pieces that do not rhyme to add into the mix.
  3. Play. I set both games up and presented them to him at the same time – scroll down for the 2nd game instructions.
  4. Hmm does the word fit ? Yes! My son enjoyed this and understood that he could sound the words out to match the rhymes as well as check if he was correct with the shapes matching as well.

Simple stories

This activity was a huge hit. My son was in stitches and learning at the same time.

  1. Write out simple sentences that appeal to your child with some words missing. Leave large spaces.  The ones I wrote for my son included sentences like  ” I forgot to put the milk in the fridge and now it smells so gross.” and ” The enemy place dropped a bomb on the base but no one was injured.” Write what will interest your child, it will make all the difference. Make figuring out the sentence fun and worth it.
  2. Write the missing words on puzzle pieces and trace them on the paper.
  3. Make sure to add words on other puzzle pieces that don’t make sense but are in the same shape as the ones that do. This is what makes it funny. Funny is good, laughing while learning is a fantastic thing.
  4. Play. Start by reading it.
  5. Now find the right missing words.
  6. Read the whole thing when the puzzle is done.
  7. With the next sheet he was laughing so hard I was worried he was going to wake his sleeping sister. It would have been worth it.

 

Filed Under: Age: Elementary, Age: Kindergarten, games, Preschool Activities, Puzzles, Reading | 17 Comments

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17 Comments

  1. Ronel says

    September 4, 2012 at 10:51 am

    Thank you for this lovely idea! Definitely going to use it with my daughter!

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  2. Montessori Motherload says

    September 4, 2012 at 11:15 am

    This is so creative and it looks like your son had a lot of fun with these puzzle activities (especially that last photo!). I’m going to bookmark this for my daughter for when she is older. Thanks for sharing!

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  3. JDaniel4's Mom says

    September 4, 2012 at 12:37 pm

    These are such wonderful ways to work with words!

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  4. CharityHawkins@TheHomeschoolExperiment says

    September 4, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    Oh man! I just gave away some old puzzles! But I’m sure I can find some mismatched pieces to use. I think this would be great for my daughter’s spelling words, for example, one page with “-ck” words and one page with “-ke” words. Love these simple ideas!~

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  5. Lilium says

    September 4, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    This is a great fun idea! Thanks for sharing!

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  6. Ashley says

    September 7, 2012 at 3:21 am

    Great idea for learning words!

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  7. jrobins says

    September 20, 2012 at 12:06 pm

    this is a wonderful idea. thanks so much for posting.

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  8. Terry says

    January 20, 2013 at 1:48 pm

    I really like this idea to use with my writing club. I could make it fit older kids by using prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Thanks!

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  9. Karen says

    May 31, 2013 at 2:51 pm

    Love this idea – thankyou. I am going to use it with my class.

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  10. Amy says

    January 19, 2014 at 3:28 am

    Love it! Using this in my esl class here in Taiwan!

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  11. Erin Zinke says

    April 9, 2014 at 11:12 am

    I love this idea as a center in my classroom! I am forever having kids lose pieces and we can’t find them. This is a fabulous idea to use them up!

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  12. Yolanda says

    February 21, 2015 at 5:13 am

    Love this … It’s fun and simple. Thank you 🙂

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