Organizing & Summarizing

Crossword Puzzles

Crossword Puzzles
Grades
K - 12

About this Interactive

Overview

Encourage your students to study their content area vocabulary, practice grammar or parts of speech, or demonstrate what they have learned by creating crossword puzzles. In the Create mode, the tool offers the opportunity to enter words and their clues before it generates the puzzle.

The tool also includes a Play mode with crossword puzzles for students in grades K–12. Included with each puzzle are a For Teachers page with troubleshooting help and ideas for use as well as a Tips & Hints page designed to scaffold students' learning and help them do the research necessary to solve the puzzle.

For additional information for using this tool out of the classroom, see Crossword Puzzles in the Parent & Afterschool Resources section.

 

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