Guess the Emoji – Movies Edition for High School
- Grades
- Grades 6–12, Middle School, High School
- Pages
- 6
- File type
- Answer key
- Included
- Topic
- guess, emoji
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
- Answer key
- Included
About this resource
What's inside this resource
This guess the emoji worksheet pack turns movie and TV titles into picture puzzles. Each ticket-shaped card shows a short row of emoji-style pictures, and students decode them to write the title. A picture can stand for a word in the title, a word that sounds like one, or something from the story, and a sun-plus-sunglasses example above the puzzles shows the idea in action.
There are 36 puzzles in three themed rounds, each rated easy, medium or tricky with filled dots:
- Animated Movies: 12 puzzles
- Family Movies: 12 puzzles
- TV Shows and Series: 12 puzzles
Short thinking tasks sit between the rounds. Students explain how the pictures in one solved ticket fit together, then sort clues into word, sound and story types. On the Direct Your Own page, they design four puzzles of their own, hide the title under a fold line and swap with a partner.
The two-page answer key lists every title with its clue words and release year, plus a team game card that awards points by difficulty and a bonus for naming the decade. Titles mix recent hits with long-time favorites and suit grades 6 to 12, early finishers, brain breaks and end-of-term fun. Print it in color or in black and white.
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Learning objectives
Decode a sequence of pictures to identify a movie or TV show title
Tell whether a picture clue works as a word, a sound-alike or a story detail
Explain in writing how the pictures in a puzzle combine to name a title
Teaching tips
Walk through the sun plus eyeglasses example on page 1 before students start, so the three clue types are clear.
Use the difficulty dots to choose a set of easy puzzles as a warm-up, then move to the tricky ones.
Run the rounds as a team game with the scoring card on the answer key, including the bonus for naming the decade.
Skills covered
Visual decoding: students turn a row of two to five pictures into a familiar movie or show title.
Wordplay and sound-alikes: some clues stand for words that sound like a title word rather than the word itself.
Classifying clues: students find examples of word, sound and story clues across the puzzle pages.
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Is it only movies?
No. Two rounds are movies (animated and family), and the third round has 12 TV shows and series, for 36 puzzles in all.
How do the difficulty ratings work?
Every ticket has one to three filled dots: one is easy, two is medium and three is tricky. This makes it simple to pick a warm-up set or a challenge round.
Can students make their own puzzles?
Yes. The Direct Your Own page has four blank tickets, rules for a fair puzzle and a fold-under box for the secret title, so partners can swap and guess.
What does the answer key include?
Each title with the clue words behind its pictures and a release year, sample answers for the clue tasks, and a team game card with a scoring plan.
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