Back-to-school word searches

Recognize the theme vocabulary before scanning the grid. Examples include classroom, timetable, book, backpack, pencil, recess.

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Levels

Medium
11 × 11 · 10 words · diagonals too

Vocabulary for the search

Recognize the theme vocabulary before scanning the grid. Examples include classroom, timetable, book, backpack, pencil, recess. Follow the activity’s own list; these examples are conversation starters, not an inventory of every sheet.

After the activity

Choose an object and explain its use, then write or draw where you would keep it so you can find it. Prepare a back-to-school activity with recognizable objects, routines and spaces without requiring everyone to know one another yet.

Use a search method

Find a word’s first letter and check its next letter before following the whole sequence. Mark from the first letter to the last and cross the entry off the list. Words can share letters: finding one does not remove those cells from other searches.