It's been awhile since I"ve blogged about double
letter puzzles. I just introduced this year's group of
students to them for the first time, and I thought I
would share the three puzzles I used to do this.
Taking inspiration from Lisa Richardson , I decided
to magnetize the puzzle pieces and place them on
my dry erase board instead of laying them on a
puzzle table like I have done in the past. Check out
previous blog posts here and here .
I'm super excited with the results of magnetizing
these puzzles. I've had WAY more students attempt
them than I ever had last year with the puzzles
laying horizontally on the puzzle table. I will
definitely be keeping these puzzles vertical going
forward!
The goal of each puzzle is to place the double letter
cards in a line in an overlapping manner so that a
real word is formed. No card may be fully covered,
rotated, or flipped. Here's an example of how the
letters should be arranged. Keep in mind, the words
you will be creating is MUCH longer!
I put up all three puzzles at one time on different
sections of the whiteboard. In the future, I would
probably print each set of letters on a different
color of paper because my kids have had a
tendency to mix the letters up to spell other
things... Previously, I only ever put out one puzzle at
a time, so the colors were never an issue.
These puzzles were created by Serhiy Grabarchuk. I
found out while doing some googling as I wrote this
post that these puzzles are actually known as
"DoubLetters" puzzles. Serhiy published another one
of his DoubLetters puzzles on Puzzles.com in
February of 2012. You can download a PDF of that
puzzle here .
These three puzzles were published in Puzzle Box,
Volume 1 and Volume 2 (affiliate links). I cannot
recommend this series of puzzle books enough for
classroom teachers. Every time I flip through one of
these books, I end up bookmarking ten more things
I want to create for my students!
Download the files for these puzzles here , here , and
here .
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