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At the beginning, students have considerable difficulty in recognizing words, and are not always accurate.
At this stage, students are able to recognize words accurately, but doing so requires a good deal of attention, effort, and time.
Students are able to recognize words accurately and instantaneously, and doing so does not require much attention, effort, or time.
Who's approach was it to tape short books that students repeatedly listened to over a period of a week while also repeatedly reading them and comparing their reading to the tape?
In this approach, more capable readers pair up with less capable peers and take turns reading to each other, with the stronger partner reading each passage first and the less strong reader following.
In this type of reading, the teacher chooses a selection that will lend itself particularly well to oral reading.
Refers to the well rehearsed reading of scripts, with feeling and expression, in front of an audience, but without the memorizing of lines, costumes, prompts, scenery, make-up, and other time consuming features of a full-blown play performance.
This type of reading, developed by Frank Greene, can be thought of as a variation of readers theater, wth the same goal to motivate students and give them an opportunity to repeatedly practice a passage so they can read it fluently to an audience.
This type of reading builds automatically, vocabulary, world knowledge, and the desire to read more.
These books provide extensive practice that is not taxing, and the structure of the books makes reading relatively easy. These books are powerful for developing fluency.
4 letter acronym for a whole-class program designed to build oral reading fluency.
The four components to this are: rate, accuracy, expression, and comprehension.
This formula considers word difficulty and sentence complexity in a sophisticated way to determine text difficulty.
This formula assesses word difficulty by considering the average number of syllables in the words of a text, and it assesses syntactic complexity by considering the average number of words per sentence

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a crossword?

Crossword puzzles have been published in newspapers and other publications since 1873. They consist of a grid of squares where the player aims to write words both horizontally and vertically.

Next to the crossword will be a series of questions or clues, which relate to the various rows or lines of boxes in the crossword. The player reads the question or clue, and tries to find a word that answers the question in the same amount of letters as there are boxes in the related crossword row or line.

Some of the words will share letters, so will need to match up with each other. The words can vary in length and complexity, as can the clues.

Who is a crossword suitable for?

The fantastic thing about crosswords is, they are completely flexible for whatever age or reading level you need. You can use many words to create a complex crossword for adults, or just a couple of words for younger children.

Crosswords can use any word you like, big or small, so there are literally countless combinations that you can create for templates. It is easy to customise the template to the age or learning level of your students.

How do I create a crossword template?

For the easiest crossword templates, WordMint is the way to go!

Pre-made templates

For a quick and easy pre-made template, simply search through WordMint’s existing 500,000+ templates. With so many to choose from, you’re bound to find the right one for you!

Create your own from scratch

  • Log in to your account (it’s free to join!)
  • Head to ‘My Puzzles’
  • Click ‘Create New Puzzle’ and select ‘Crossword’
  • Select your layout, enter your title and your chosen clues and answers
  • That’s it! The template builder will create your crossword template for you and you can save it to your account, export as a word document or pdf and print!

How do I choose the clues for my crossword?

Once you’ve picked a theme, choose clues that match your students current difficulty level. For younger children, this may be as simple as a question of “What color is the sky?” with an answer of “blue”.

Are crosswords good for students?

Crosswords are a great exercise for students' problem solving and cognitive abilities. Not only do they need to solve a clue and think of the correct answer, but they also have to consider all of the other words in the crossword to make sure the words fit together.

Crosswords are great for building and using vocabulary.

If this is your first time using a crossword with your students, you could create a crossword FAQ template for them to give them the basic instructions.

Can I print my crossword template?

All of our templates can be exported into Microsoft Word to easily print, or you can save your work as a PDF to print for the entire class. Your puzzles get saved into your account for easy access and printing in the future, so you don’t need to worry about saving them at work or at home!

Can I create crosswords in other languages?

Crosswords are a fantastic resource for students learning a foreign language as they test their reading, comprehension and writing all at the same time. When learning a new language, this type of test using multiple different skills is great to solidify students' learning.

We have full support for crossword templates in languages such as Spanish, French and Japanese with diacritics including over 100,000 images, so you can create an entire crossword in your target language including all of the titles, and clues.