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Dolores Huerta founded the Agricultural Workers Association and co-founded the United _______ Workers.
Catherina Cortez, the first Latuba ub Congress, created the __________ working group to fight the drug epidemic in Nevada.
This woman chronicled the struggle of colored students joining white schools in this states weekly paper.
This woman was a powerful and renowned singer who sang songs of her experiences after working as a _________ for 18 years of her life.
Charlotte Forten Grimke was the first African American female ____________.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was the first African American woman ________ editor.
Lelah Bakhtiar translated the _______.
Raha Moharrak climed Mount _______.
What was the town where Pocahontas’s tribe was located?
What position did Mankiller hold in the Cherokee tribe?
Anna DeCosta Banks was a pioneer in the _______ profession.     
In 1948 Ophelia DeVore started a School of Self-Development and _______.  
Anousheh Ansari was the first female Iranian _________.
This woman is the first Iranian to ever win the Nobel Peace Price.
Gwendolyn Brooks, a famous poet, won the _______________ Prize for her book, Annie Allen.
Sojourner Truth gave this famous speech in 1851 “Ain’t I A ________."
Nydia __________ made history in 1992 by becoming the first Puerto Rican woman to be elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
________ Dawson, among other things, helped found Voto Latino which encourages Latinos to register to vote and get more politically active.
What Native American medicine woman led a revolt against the Spanish in 1785 while pregnant?
Nancy Ward led her tribe’s charge to victory in the  battle of __________.
Nawal El Moutawakel was the first woman to win a gold Olympic medal in ________.
Hanan Ashrawi was an advocate of _____ self-determination.
Belva Lockwood was the first female ________ to practice in supreme court.
Sarah Winnemucca was a Native-American rights author, educator, __________ and military scout.
Anna Grodzka was the first transgender woman to take a seat in the ________ parliament.
Orange is the New Black star, ____________ Cox is the first transgender woman to be nominated for an Emmy.
What part of the house did Laura Esquivel think was the most important part of the house?
In 1993, 1994, 1999, and 2002, Ellen Ochoa earned the ________ flight medal.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.