Word Circle
January 5th, 2011 · 4 Comments
An Interactive Whiteboard Resource to allow quick spelling based games. Similar to the puzzles found in many newspapers a nine letter word has each of its letters randomly put into each circle. If you follow the rules of the newspaper variants the challenge is to make as many words of 4+ letters as you can always using the centre letter. You can come up with your own scoring method but one method is to give 1 point for a 4 letter word, 2 for 5 letters etc. If students find the nine letter word they get 10 points. There is a built in 3 minute timer which slowly colours in red as the time elapses. A buzzer marks time up. Or you may prefer to not user a timer.
Go to interactive whiteboard resource.
Suggestions and bug reports welcome in the comments.
TweetTags: Basic Skills · Spelling · Starter/Plenary
4 responses so far ↓
1 teacherled.com | The Primary Classroom // Jan 19, 2011 at 12:25 pm
[...] Word Circle…only a new tool added this year so i have not yet used with students but looks fantastic. Word Circle works on the same principle as the 9-letter word in the newspaper. You can vary scoring and rules to suit your students needs. [...]
2 A New Direction « TechnoStories // Feb 29, 2012 at 6:36 pm
[...] for your IWB. Many are maths based but other areas are covered too. I really like the new Word Circle activity, mainly as it reminds me of a similar idea I had using PowerPoint. I’m also a fan of [...]
3 Liz // Jul 24, 2012 at 4:01 am
I’d like to use this activity however the letters in the circle have lost their interactivity ability. The NEW and SOLVE buttons work but nothing happens when I hold the cursor or IWB pen over the letters in the circle.
4 Spencer // Jul 24, 2012 at 8:00 pm
The letters have never been interactive. It is really just a way of a setting a quick whole class puzzle on the IWB. It isn’t designed to be solved within the program. There is a timer if you wish to use it and ‘solve’ button to show what the nine letter word is but I envisaged the class working on paper or mini whiteboards with this.
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