How to Make Crossword Puzzles for Free Online If you’re a teacher, a Sunday School instructor, a tutor, or just an overworked parent trying to find something to keep your kids busy, knowing how to make crossword puzzles is a great skill. My son loves to do crossword puzzles, and when I sit him down with a crossword I created based on his school vocabulary lessons, he doesn’...
Online Printable Crossword Puzzles for Free I’m a crossword puzzle addict. I got the bug when I was in my early teens, and like lots of other crossword junkies, I came by my addiction honestly. My parents are New York Times subscribers, almost exclusively for the crossword puzzle. They like to relax before and after work by working that famous puzzle together, and as I grew up I became as f...
Dolch Word Games Invented in 1948 by Dr. Edward W. Dolch, the Dolch Word List is a collection of 325 words that must be easily recognized in order to be fluent in the reading of English. Dolch compiled his list of 95 nouns and 220 “service words” by looking at words commonly found in children’s literature of the time. The idea behind this word list is to establish a list of words...
How to Improve Your Vocabulary Don’t you hate when someone insults you or hurts your feelings and you can’t think of anything to say? In French, the phrase “L’esprit de l’escalier” describes that moment when you come up with a perfect comeback when it’s too late to deliver it. It’s moments like these when improving your vocabulary can really help. In...
Scrabble Vowel Dumps The easiest way to lose a round of Scrabble is to get stuck with tiles that you can’t place. Most of the time, having a buildup of tiles is due to one of two things–having a small Scrabble vocabulary or having too many vowel tiles on your rack. There are one hundred tiles in the game of Scrabble–ninety-eight letter tiles and two blank tiles. Since forty-two ...
Scrabble Zen Scrabble players love their three-letter words. These mini units of language are the building blocks of any good Scrabble strategy, and players memorize long lists of three-letter words to help build that strategy. The list of three-letter Scrabble words containing “z” is short, just twenty-four three-letter words containing the letter “z” are legal plays. T...
Scrabble Jr. Rules and Instructions Teaching your kids how to play Scrabble Junior gives children 5-7 years old a fun tool to learn the spelling of words, while playing a board game with the family. Not only do you give your reading-age child an extra way to learn vocabulary and word spelling, but you also show your son or daughter a window into the world of Scrabble and word games. It’s ne...
Scrabble Z Words Learning the “Z words” in Scrabble will let you get rid of that pesky Z when you play your favorite word game, while scoring big points from Scrabble words with Z in them. This turns getting a “z” letter tile from a crisis into an opportunity. Z’s are worth 10 points, but if they get stuck in your hand at the end of the game, you’ll have ten po...
Teaching Kids to Spell with Scrabble Teachers, tutors and parents are always looking for new ways to teach kids how to spell, from spelling computers to word cards. If you’re looking for a vocabulary resource for how to teach spelling that’s fun and rewarding, Scrabble is a perfect tool. Scrabble is a word game all about how you spell words, so it’s natural that a word game woul...
Laying Out Words on a Scrabble Board Knowing how to layout a Scrabble board is using the confines of the Scrabble board and the various word and letter modifiers and multipliers on the board help you score. Don’t play Scrabble just from your rack. Spend as much or more time looking at the Scrabble board as the letters in your hand. That way, you’ll take in all the possibilities and fi...