Fun Fairy Tale Word Search Puzzles for Grades 2-5

Bring classic fairy tales to life as you engage your students’ vocabulary and spelling skills with this set of free, printable fairy tale word search puzzles. A fabulous, free fairy tale printable for use with students in grades 2-5, I would use these as part of teaching a fairy tale theme or learning unit, but... The post Fun Fairy Tale Word Search Puzzles for Grades 2-5 appeared first on Childhood101.

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Fun Fairy Tale Word Search Puzzles for Grades 2-5

Bring classic fairy tales to life as you engage your students’ vocabulary and spelling skills with this set of free, printable fairy tale word search puzzles. A fabulous, free fairy tale printable for use with students in grades 2-5, I would use these as part of teaching a fairy tale theme or learning unit, but they are also great for kids who like to do word searches – especially as one of the word sleuth puzzles includes a fabulous fairy tale mystery challenge – it invites students to fill in the missing words in a list of fairy tale quiz questions in order to reveal the words to find in the word search grid!

Printable Fairy Tale Word Search Puzzles

Word searches are a simple but effective way to reinforce foundational literacy skills such as word recognition, spelling, and critical thinking in a fun and engaging manner. And these word search puzzles are free to use and print friendly, making them the perfect addition to your fairy tale teaching unit.

Word searches are a great tool for helping children develop a range of literacy and learning skills, including;

Vocabulary development: Generally, word searches expose children to vocabulary related to a specific theme, including less familiar words.
Spelling skills: Finding and highlighting words in a word search helps children to practice spelling skills, requiring them to actively scan for and find letter patterns.
Visual processing: As they scan the word search grid for particular words, students are using visual scanning and processing skills (check out our visual discrimination matching games for even more resources to develop these skills).
Task persistence and concentration: Word searches require children to focus as they carefully search for words within a larger set of letters

The first word search in this fairy tale set includes eighteen fairy tale vocabulary words related to characters and story settings. Within the puzzle, words run across, down or diagonally, and may overlap. Children need to find and circle or highlight each word as they find it in the word search grid.

And then, our fun, fairy tale word search challenge page ups the learning potential even more!

This word search challenge page uses a series of fifteen fairy tale quiz questions for students to solve – the solutions to these questions are the words to find within the word search grid. Students can research, or draw on prior knowledge, at the conclusion of a unit of study about fairy tales to find the answers.

Ways to Use the Fairy Tale Word Search Printables

Here are a few different ways you might like to use the word search printable pages;

Combine the I Spy puzzles with my printable Fairy Tale I Spy puzzles and crossword puzzles to create a complete Fairy Tale Activity Pack.
Laminate a copy of each of the puzzles and provide children with whiteboard markers to complete them. This way the puzzles can be reused over and over again.
Provide each student with a copy of your selected page and have a competition to see who can find each of the fairy tale words in the least amount of time.

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