Kids love completing word searches! Word searches are great for practice with reading seasonal and holiday words. If you are looking for activities for April or May, you might like a spring word search freebie for your kiddos!
Why a Word Search?
As children gain exposure to more words, their vocabulary naturally expands. Word puzzles are a wonderful way to enhance your students” exposure to fresh vocabulary. Additionally, word searches that contain clues provide the chance for children to observe words in context, while also learning their meanings or definitions.
Word puzzles vary in difficulty, with some being more challenging than others. Occasionally, multiple attempts are necessary to arrive at the correct solution. Persisting through repeated efforts to solve a puzzle is a valuable lesson for children. Embracing the saying “if at first you don’t succeed, try and try again” equips children to persevere through challenges.
A word search can be the perfect bit of morning work, a sub plan filler activity or a worksheet for your early finisher tasks. You can grab a spring word search for your class too!
Sight Word Recognition
I always try to make the word searches cute with graphics for the kids to color and the fonts large and easy to read. This spring hunt is a little more challenging for students. Some of the words are found backward! This one is designed for seasonal sight word recognition.
Flip that Word Search!
Often students finish a task like this very quickly while others may struggle. During word work time, the students circle the located word in the word bank (so it can still be read) and only trace around the perimeter of the found word in case time runs short for coloring. It is also helpful to allow students to work with a buddy after a certain amount of independent searching.
You can download this spring word search freebie here if you like! 🙂
While you are browsing TPT, look for other seasonal word search freebies at Creative Lesson Cafe.
I hope you can use it with your class.
