![]() Thanks for reading and I look forward to hearing from you! There are lots more word searches I could have included – let me know your favourites below in the comments. For a software option that you can use offline Printable word searches collected on Pinterest Lots more ESL wordsearches here to browse through. These words searches are created for children who are learning English as a Second Language but actually they are very useful for all children. However, what I really like about this site is all the word searches that are already there.īrowse through the categories at or search at This may be useful if you want your child to type in a spelling list or a list of specialised vocabulary.Īlso, the puzzles only stay on the site for 30 days, so you must print them out if you want to keep them for longer. There is a word search maker here but you have to type each word in separately. Useful Word searches that have already been created How to Create a Word Search Puzzle in Excel – Tutorial However, these days I generally prefer to just use Excel to keep my word lists in and then use one of the automatic word search generators. It takes longer but I have more freedom to do what I want with it. I used to use this method quite a lot myself. Talking of Excel here is a video of using Excel to create a Word Search Puzzle. I find it useful to create my wordlist in Excel first so I can reuse them in different puzzle makers, or choose different numbers when I have a long list. How to make a free Word Search using Discovery Puzzlemaker Here is a video talking you through the process. The sheet to input your material looks like this Puzzle Maker You should be able to click on solution and get a worked example but that doesn’t seem to work for me. However, don’t forget I only chose forward words in the last example. I used the same list of capitals as in the last example, but you can see it looks much harder. Image from Puzzlemaker at Discovery Education Here I have chosen forward words only but you could have backwards words only or a mixture. I suspect that it is not just the atozteacherstuff word search that has this problem. Note the advice about checking it for inappropriate words. Here is another very straightforward example ![]() The thing I really like about this one is that it gives you a smart set of worksheets and the solution – here’s my example However, if you want more freedom to choose you need to look at some of the other word search makers. There are 3 levels to choose from, basic, intermediate and advanced and each one shows you the options you can have. Just choose the level and then fill in your words. I’ll start with the one which is probably my favourite – it is from Super teacher worksheets.
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