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Crossword Series (Themed) This crossword series is designed for students in grades 2–5. Each set of crosswords is built around a clear vocabulary theme, allowing students to strengthen their word recognition, build subject-based knowledge, and reinforce early literacy and thinking skills. Each topic includes six…
Read across/down definition clues and write the matching history-vocabulary term into each of six crossword grids, then check answers against the included answer key.
Complete a crossword puzzle using clues about historical figures and events from England 1642-1688; a word-bank version, a no-word-bank version, and a teacher version with completed answers are all provided.
Read across/down definition clues and write the matching history-vocabulary term into each of six crossword grids, then check answers against the included answer key.
Complete a crossword (using clues about Civil War people/events/concepts), a word scramble, and a word search using Civil War vocabulary.
Solve a crossword using clues about Maya civilization terms, unscramble 15 scrambled Maya-related words given their definitions, and find 15 Maya-related words hidden in a word search grid.
Students solve a WWI-themed crossword using clue definitions, unscramble letters to identify WWI vocabulary words, and find WWI vocabulary words hidden in a word-search grid.
Solve a word search, a word scramble, and a crossword using clues about famous historical women (e.g. Maya Angelou, Frida Kahlo, Harriet Tubman, Marie Curie, Rosa Parks).
Students solve a word search, a word scramble, and a crossword puzzle using U.S. history vocabulary terms such as colony, pilgrim, revolution, independence, constitution, president, immigrant, slavery, secession, and Congress.
Revisit ancient Mesopotamia through three vocabulary-puzzle formats. Students encounter terms associated with its rivers, cities, civilizations, writing, law and innovations in a crossword, scramble and word search. Clue-based tasks connect the vocabulary with meanings, while the word search adds recognition practice. Supplied solutions allow the puzzles to be checked after students attempt them.
Students complete Civil War-themed crossword puzzles, word searches, and coloring pages, and fill in a battle-study organizer (battle name, dates, commanders, location, significance) for one or more Civil War battles.
Follow a 4-lesson slideshow with 'Do Now' warm-up prompts and reading sections, answer accompanying worksheet questions, and complete a crossword puzzle using unit vocabulary.
Read an informational passage on the topic, answer leveled reading-comprehension/critical-thinking questions (Bloom's Taxonomy), and complete a crossword, word search, and comprehension quiz; teacher checks answers against an included answer key.
Read six informational passages on Civil War topics, answer leveled reading-comprehension/critical-thinking questions (Bloom's Taxonomy), and complete a crossword, word search, and comprehension quiz; teacher checks answers against an included answer key.
Students answer short-answer comprehension questions about Egyptian religion, ma'at and its seven principles, the afterlife (Field of Reeds), and the Heliopolitan creation myth; identify pictured gods/goddesses and complete a fact table (Osiris, Horus, Bastet, Hathor, Seth); answer questions about the pharaoh's…
['solve a crossword using Lincoln/Civil War clues', 'unscramble vocabulary words', 'find hidden words in a word search']
Read an informational passage on the topic, answer leveled reading-comprehension/critical-thinking questions (Bloom's Taxonomy), and complete a crossword, word search, and comprehension quiz; teacher checks answers against an included answer key.
Solve a 15-clue crossword, unscramble 15 scrambled vocabulary words using given clues, and find 15 vocabulary words hidden in a word-search grid.
Read narrative handouts about Lincoln and the Battle of Gettysburg, then complete review handouts including a biography crossword, a Civil War timeline, a Battle of Gettysburg map activity, and analysis of the handwritten version of the Gettysburg Address.
Solve a crossword with clues on 20th-century world history terms, unscramble 15 vocabulary words, and find those words in a word search grid.
Free download Read across/down definition clues and write the matching history-vocabulary term into the crossword grid (Early Human Societies theme); an answer key for all six themed puzzles in the full set is also shown.
Read an informational passage on the topic, answer leveled reading-comprehension/critical-thinking questions (Bloom's Taxonomy), and complete a crossword, word search, and comprehension quiz; teacher checks answers against an included answer key.
Read an informational passage on the topic, answer leveled reading-comprehension/critical-thinking questions (Bloom's Taxonomy), and complete a crossword, word search, and comprehension quiz; teacher checks answers against an included answer key.
Solve crossword clues to fill in vocabulary words, unscramble jumbled letters to spell each term from its clue, and locate vocabulary words hidden in a letter grid.