Spelling Puzzle Generator 6.1
for Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000 amd XP
not tested on Vista yet
The spelling puzzle generator is a program that makes black line masters for teacher use. The teacher can type in a list of up to 20 words and then create four different puzzles. Two sizes of puzzles are created depending on the number of words in the list. The break point for the sizes is at ten words. A discription of each puzzle with examples follow:
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Configuration Puzzle:
This puzzle creates a shape based puzzle in which the student fills in the boxes with the correct letters from the word list. The order of the shapes is scrambled so the student must carefully examine the words in the list to match the shapes.
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Blank Spaces Puzzle:
This puzzle creates three columns of the word list. In the left colum one letter is blanked out. In the middle column two letters are blanked out. In the right column three letters are blanked out. One way to use this puzzle is to have the students fold the paper so that one column is visible at a time and do the columns from left to right. This gives the student practice at reading the words and recognizing the missing components.
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Scrambled Word Puzzle:
This puzzle first scrambles the order of the word list and then scrambles the order of the letters in each word. It prints a list of thes scrambled words in a column with blank lines next to each word with space for the student to unscramble and write the correct word. There is a word bank printed at the top of the page to remind the student of the words contained in the puzzle. You could have the students fold the word bank out of sight to increase the level of difficulty.
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Word Search Puzzle
This creates the classic word search puzzle for the word list.
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About the programmer: Grant Bodwell
I am retired school teacher, self taught in programming. This program came about through several hundred hours of hard work and still is a work in progress. I've used it for many years in various forms on TRS80, AppleII, Pc in Dos, Windows 3.1, and now in Windows9x. It is written in Visual Basic 6 which means it should run on any version of Windows currently supported.
I play with this program from time to time as a hobby now. If you have questions or reports of serious problems running it you may contact me by email. I will try to fix problems but I make no guarantees.
If you have Windows Vista and try this program please let me know if it works (I'm not ready to jump to Vista yet).
I make this program available to help other teachers. If you find this program valuable please use it with no restriction. If you would like to make a donation please send me an email and I'll let you know how to do it.
grant@bodwell.org
