Description

Literature that is meant to be studied and imitated that prompts students to consider broad ideas related to a credible author’s message, purpose, audience, structure, and diction in order to narrow down those same concepts into their own pieces of writing
Teaching method that provides a temporary support structure that provides moment-to-moment assistance for students to develop skills, carry out particular techniques, and practice techniques until they are able to capably implement these techniques into their writing independently
Teaching method that involves an instructor executing the processes of framing, demonstrating, and summarizing a strategy or technique in front of students in order for them to see exactly how a certain writing process is carried out
Approach to teaching writing that emphasizes and implements the practices of and the various methods of executing prewriting, drafting, revision, editing, and publication of a student’s work
Type of lesson delivery that is typically short and can be done during a fraction of an individual class period that includes a hook, teaching point, model, active student engagement, and link
Skills or strengths that are useful in both the daily life of a student and in the process of learning writing. Very important for teachers to convey the importance of these regarding the latter
Type of writing that establish the author’s possible purposes – i.e. narrative, informative/expository, opinion/argument
Actual organizational structure of writing
Type of writing associated with a specific form, content, and style – specific writing category within a mode
Process that involves a teacher passing judgements on the quality of a final product in relation to the evaluator’s objectives, standards, or criteria, often in the form of a letter or number
Form of assessment that can occur at any point in the learning cycle, including question/answer sessions, checks for knowledge, classwork/homework assignments, or entrance/exit tickets
Typically graded form of assessment that occurs at the end of a learning cycle (topic, unit, class)
Method of feedback, often done collaboratively, that involves an outside source such as a teacher or another student reading a student’s work in order to detect errors, offer suggestions, and compliment what is done well in order to prompt the author student to make adjustments to a draft to create a final product
Should be conversational, complimentary, and critical when necessary to allow students to effectively identify and respond to which components of their writing are, or are not, executed properly

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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.