MAKE WORDS VOCABULARY QUIZ - 15 Power Points Lesson Starter and Vocabulary Builder with answers

Fifteen Power Points, each containing nine letters in cells, the objective being to make words from the nine letters. The quiz is effective as a lesson starter, and can be incorporated into language skills lessons to vary the class routine of doing whole lessons from the textbook. Each power point contains up to fifty answers, alphabetically listed, covering the words that can be constructed from each of the letter sets.

Rules of the Quiz

1. Students can’t form words by doubling up and using a single letter twice
2. Each time a word is made all nine letters can be used again for constructing the next word
3. All words must be English language - no nic-names or abbreviations
   Useful to set a time limit of 3 to 5 minutes.

Differentiated learning possibilities include

• Encouraging strong students to be competitive in demonstrating vocabulary and word construction skills, achieving over the average score (provided on each power point) for each quiz
• Goal setting for less able students - set an objective within their reach for the number of words they can find (usually a dozen) and also encourage them to beat their previous score from the last quiz if used on a regular basis
• Vocabulary enhancement for all students - new words can be entered into vocabulary list (each of the 15 activities have some challenging words that will represent new vocab for most students)