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Word Noodles: I-SPY Word Find 51-100 | NYT Strands Game for Kids | 50 MORE Vocabulary Puzzles

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Grab this No-Prep Vocabulary Building must-have: 50 MORE I-SPY puzzles!

Loved I-SPY Word Find #1-50? Your students asked for more, so here are 50 brand-new puzzles (#51-100) with fresh, grade 4-8 themes and a little more challenge!

Do you and your students love playing the New York Times’ Strands Game? Stop playing a game for adults, and start playing one that will build your students’ reading skills! Just like the NYT’s Strands Game, students will beg to play!

50 NEW I-SPY Puzzles have been carefully crafted to methodically build a child’s vocabulary, plus so much more. Themes mix academic topics kids are learning with fun topics they already love: grammar, rocks and minerals, the Revolutionary War, math terms, Greek myths, poetry, body systems, biomes, the elements, explorers, economics, pop stars, video games, movies, Halloween, winter holidays, sports legends, book titles and more!

Why use I-SPY in your classroom?

Word games are vital to a child’s vocabulary development and have long been heralded for their promotion of good brain health. Vocabulary development is essential to reading fluency and building life-long readers.

Playing I-SPY with your students will:

build schema/background knowledge

build memory

boost vocabulary

reinforce spelling skills

foster essential language skills

improve problem-solving and analytical skills

learn new words while mastering sight words

foster critical thinking skills

promote emotional well-being

build life-long habits

increase concentration

teach children to be “OK” with struggling

50 NEW Puzzles (#51-#100)

Answer Keys provided

Puzzles pick up where I-SPY #1-#50 leaves off and get harder as they go

Puzzles #51-62: 15 x 15 grids, words run across and down

Puzzles #63-75: words can also run diagonally

Puzzles #76-100: bigger 20 x 20 grids with longer words and full names

Three levels on every puzzle: Apprentice, Master and Legend

Students are only given the puzzle and category – NO WORD LIST

Puzzles #75, #84 and #96 are hint-only: the title only hints at the category, just like in the Strands game

Word List is provided for teachers to use at their discretion

Adaptation for Younger Students:
⭐ Give students the word list.

SUGGESTIONS FOR USE:

I-SPY Mondays

Daily Morning Work / Bell Ringers

Independent Work for those needing to build vocabulary

Small Group Activity

Independent Challenge Work for advanced students

Reading groups

Full Class – projected activity

Also in the series: I-SPY Word Find #1-50 and Word Noodles Connections Game for Kids!

Not sure it is right for your students? Download the preview to see sample pages.

Teaching is hard… I hope I have helped. – Kim, The Literature Lady

Format
PDF
✓ word search
✓ vocabulary
✓ fast finisher
✓ word games
✓ word study
✓ early finishers
✓ 50 NEW Puzzles (#51-#100) that pick up where I-SPY #1-#50 leaves off and get harder as they go
✓ Puzzles #51-62: 15 x 15 grids, words run across and down; Puzzles #63-75: words can also run diagonally
✓ Puzzles #76-100: bigger 20 x 20 grids with longer words and full names
✓ Three levels on every puzzle: Apprentice, Master and Legend
✓ Students are only given the puzzle and category – NO WORD LIST. Puzzles #75, #84 and #96 are hint-only: the title only h
✓ Answer Keys provided and a Word List for teachers to use at their discretion
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Hi, I’m Kim!  I’m an educator with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Elementary Education and more than 30 years of classroom experience. 

I started The Literature Lady because I wanted to make reading come alive for students—and make lesson planning a lot easier for teachers. I create resources that were way too time-consuming to create while teaching full-time, so that now you don’t have to! My passion is creating engaging, low-prep resources, such as novel studies, Word Noodle vocabulary games, and reader’s theatre scripts, that help kids fall in love with books while building real skills. 

When I’m not writing or designing new lessons, you’ll find me teaching right here on the TeacherStore.io community platform! The Young Scholar Academy is an online small group learning community that teaches homeschool students in grades 1-8. We teach core classes, electives, one-on-one tutoring, and so much more! As Tiffany would say, "Come for the classes, stay for the community!" 

I am also a fun of reading, baking, traveling, or hanging out with my husband, our two college-aged sons, and our dogs, Maisie and Sophie.

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