School Word Search Puzzles: Body, Jobs, Space

Subjects that turn up on a syllabus, handed over as puzzles rather than as exercises.

These lists come from vocabulary people meet in class and then need again much later: the parts of the body, the names of trades, the things overhead. A grid is a slow and forgiving way to meet a word for the second or third time, because finding it means reading it letter by letter instead of skimming past it.

The terms here run longer and less familiar than elsewhere on the site, so the gentler levels earn their keep. Begin where words read only rightwards and downwards, and save the reversed ones for a group that already has the list in hand. Printed, with the key held back, these make a quiet filler for the last stretch of a session.

Read the list aloud before anyone starts hunting. Once a word has been heard once, it stops being an obstacle and turns into the easiest shape to pick out of the letters.

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