Anagram warm-up
Nine jumbled words to start the lesson, with a definition behind every question mark for whoever gets stuck.
When to use it
The first five minutes of a lesson, while the class settles and you take the register. The start of a new topic, to get its key words in front of pupils before you use them. A vocabulary check the week before a test, when you want every pupil working at once.
What makes it this
Built on the Word scramble generator with these changed. Everything else is the default.
- Words to unscramble
In the builder: Words & clues
Preview
View only — copy it to play.Weather words: the anagram warm-up
Nine weather words with their letters shuffled. Click a row and type the word the letters spell — and if one will not come apart, the ? beside it opens a clue.
9 words
Why the example is built this way
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Nine words of seven to nine letters.
Long enough that the jumble is a real rearrangement, short enough that a class gets through all nine in about five minutes.
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Check every word for a second anagram.
Only the word you typed is accepted, so a pupil who spells another real word from the same letters is marked wrong with nothing to explain why. If a word has a twin, leave it out.
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The definition waits behind the question mark.
The letters are the puzzle, so write a real definition for every word and let the pupil who stalls ask for it. Keep Word bank off: for a set of anagrams it is the answer key.
Build it yourself
- 1 Open the Word scramble builder and fill in the Words & clues tab.
- 2 Share the link with your players, or embed the activity in your own site.
Or skip the building: copy this example and swap in your own content.