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Let them practise on their own Word scramble

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.

  1. Words to unscramble

    In the builder: Words & clues

Preview

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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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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. 1 Open the Word scramble builder and fill in the Words & clues tab.
  2. 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.