Search and Find Word Puzzles
Vicious Vowels
Search and find word puzzles are lots of fun for all ages! In addition to great entertainment, this puzzler also provides good practice in reading and spelling all sorts of words. In this case, you'll be practicing those with vicious vowel spellings!
For example, do you remember which word in each pair is correct? ambulance/ambulence familar/familiar separately/seperately
If you don't remember, this puzzle is especially for you!
You'll be searching for 45 words with similar vowel dilemmas. These words appear on our sixth grade spelling word list.
Vicious Vowel Word Search
For best results, get your own printable version today! (Answers are included with the printable page and word list.)
For maximum learning, the directions on the printable page direct students to:
- Circle the vicious vowels in each word
- Write each word from the word list in the blank, and
- Check off words as they find it in the word search puzzle.
Please note that all ages, from about grade 4 through adults, will enjoy this big word search puzzle!
Words in the puzzle:
ambulance
beliefs
calendar
ceiling
cooperation
coupon
echoes
encouragement
equator
familiar
fierce
freight
governor
grateful
grief
hangar
improvement
independence
marriage
musician
noticeable
numerator
patient
persuade
potatoes
principal
radius
rehearse
relieve
replacement
requirement
safety
scarcely
separately
studios
temperature
therefore
tomatoes
unbelievable
vacuum
variety
vary
vegetable
vein
yield
Extension Activities
1. Ask students to write sets of sentences for the words on the printable page that are noted as homophones. Their sentence sets should be similar to the hangar/hanger example set, showing each word's distinct meaning.
2. Assign students to work in pairs to create their own word search puzzles using words from one of my grade level word lists. Students may select words of their choice, or words with suffixes, double letters, or any other feature.
Give each team a piece of graph paper on which to work. When word puzzles are finished, the teacher should check them over, make clean copies and share them amongst other students.
3. Encourage students to write sentences using at least two words from the same column in the word list above. Sentences may be serious or silly.
4. Encourage groups of three students to collaborate to write poems using as many words as possible from the word list. Poems may be couplets, limericks, free verse, haiku, or any other form you or they select.
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Ann Richmond Fisher is a longtime published educational writer, a former classroom teacher and a former homeschool teacher. Ann's spelling bee resources, graded spelling word lists, spelling games, worksheets, and other language arts resources have become respected around the globe since she launched Spelling-Words-Well in 2010.
Ann is also the creator of www.word-game-world.com.
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