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Learning with Words Puzzles can be extremely beneficial to children. In the video, we look at an example of one for St. Valentine's day, with words within words for children to find. Children look at the word, write it down if they like, then list all the words they can make using the letters in the word, or words, on the screen. Remember, you can only use each letter the number of times it’s used in the original word.

When playing this game, either in class or at home, try setting a timer for one minute on every slide to add a bit of time pressure.

You can ask children to count their words at the end of each round to see who got the most. They may even like to share their words and make a big list on the board of all the possibilities. You can also set a challenge to see who can find the longest word.

Another twist you can put on this game is to use letter tiles, or even bits of paper with the letters of the alphabet written on them. This can help students who are struggling a bit more, as they can play around with rearranging the letters and it gives them something visual to work with.

Unscrambling letters and seeing what new words you can make out of existing ones is a great brain exercise. It’s a fairly simple puzzle that really pushes children to think about all the possible combinations of letters that can turn into words. To do this they need to spell them out in their heads and try and remember as many words they can that may fit in with these letters. This helps develop children’s spelling and vocabulary.

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