Any topic, any week
Science vocabulary, a book’s characters, MRT stations, Chinese, Malay or Tamil words: if you can list it, you can turn it into a word search.More puzzles
See the crossword maker and bingo cards. For pre-readers, picture puzzles have a picture beside every word.Singapore curriculum links
- VocabularyVocabulary is one of the six areas of language learning in the EL Syllabus 2020.
- Primary 1–2Word recognition supports reading with accuracy and fluency.
- Primary 3–4Spelling often-misspelled and multisyllabic words.
Word searches are not a syllabus activity, but finding a word letter by letter makes children look at its exact spelling. They work best with a list children already know, such as the week’s spelling words or topic words from Science, which starts in Primary 3.
For Primary 1 and 2, the Easy level with six to eight familiar words keeps the search about reading, not hunting. Malay vocabulary works too, since Malay is written in the same alphabet as English; Chinese characters and Tamil script do not suit a letter grid.
Summarised in our own words from the MOE English Language Syllabus 2020 (Primary).
