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Fifteen computer vocabulary words are practiced across nine game formats — anagrams, matching, multiple choice, word search, a shaped puzzle, and a crossword — plus flash card word labels, with no answer key included.

An educational teaching resource from WORDS ASIDE entitled Vocabulary with Flash Cards | Crossword Wordsearch Anagram COMPUTER downloadable at Teach Simple.

Year groups: Not year specific
Pages: 23
File type: PDF
Preparation: Print ready

Updated Feb 21, 2024

Subject: Handwriting, Speech Therapy, Spelling, Special Education Needs (SEN), Life Skills, ESL, Special Resources, Vocabulary, Writing, Language Development, English
Topic: Flash Cards, Esl
Resource types: Crosswords Puzzles, Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
Preparation: Print ready

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About this resource

Vocabulary with Flash Cards | Crossword Wordsearch Anagram COMPUTER This 23-page PDF teaching resource builds vocabulary and language skills using the theme of computers. Games like anagrams, crosswords, word searches, and more teach and reinforce computer terminology and technology concepts. Educators can use these materials in multiple ways - during morning work, centres, assignments, therapy sessions, or other times. The games allow students to have fun with language while expanding their knowledge. Teachers targeting vocabulary growth, language development, special education, ESL instruction, and more will find this resource valuable. With a variety of activities like matching, writing, wheel spins, and puzzles, students get repeated exposure to the vocabulary words. The materials work for a wide span of grade levels too. Teachers report students eagerly engaging with these entertaining games based around a topic they find intrinsically interesting - technology and computers.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Recognize and correctly spell 15 computer/technology vocabulary words across multiple activity formats.
Identify a target vocabulary word from a scrambled-letter anagram.
Match each vocabulary word to its corresponding pair or picture using process of elimination.
Locate each vocabulary word within a word search grid.

Teaching tips

Because no answer key is included, review the master word list (page 12 or 16) with students first, or keep it visible as a self-check reference during independent work.
Use the two multiple-choice pages (4-5 and 6-7) as a quick formative check after students have completed the anagram and matching activities, since both test the same 15 words in a different format.
The crossword's clues restate each answer directly (e.g., "mouse (5)"), so it functions more as a spelling/letter-count exercise than a true definitional crossword -- pair it with a separate vocabulary-definition discussion if deeper word knowledge is the goal.
Cut apart the flash card word labels (pages 20-23) and pair them with the picture pages (17-19) for a matching or memory-game centre activity.

Skills covered

Anagram decoding — students unscramble letters to reconstruct each of the 15 target vocabulary words.
Word-to-word matching — two separate matching pages require connecting the same vocabulary set presented in different scrambled orders.
Multiple-choice word recognition — two quiz formats ask students to select the correct word from four options.
Word search scanning — students locate each vocabulary word embedded in a letter grid, across two separate word-search-style pages.
Crossword completion — students fill a 15-word crossword grid using letter-count-cued clues.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Does the crossword give definitional clues, or does it name the word directly?

It names the word directly. Each crossword clue simply restates the target word itself along with its letter count in parentheses (for example, "3. mouse (5)"), so the task is closer to a spelling/letter-placement exercise than a definition-based crossword.

Are there separate physical flash cards included, or only word lists?

Both. Four pages (20–23) present the 15 words as cut-apart labels, four per page, and three companion picture pages (17–19) sit alongside them for matching practice.