Skills Covered

How to Use This Pack

Five crossword puzzles of three-letter short vowel words, each with pictures for clues. The pictures are numbered under Across and Down, matching the numbers in the puzzle. Children name each picture, find its word in the word bank and write it in the boxes, a letter a box; where two words cross they share a letter, which helps them check. The puzzles have five words on the first page and eight on the last, and each fits its word bank one way only.

In the Classroom

Name the pictures together before children start, then show how a number in the puzzle matches a numbered picture. Children can cross words off the word bank as they use them. Crosswords make a quiet word work center or an early finisher page.

At Home

Ask your child to say each picture's name slowly and listen for the middle sound before finding the word. Let them check the crossing letters when they finish.

Tips for Success

• Start with the picture you know best
• Count the boxes: the word has that many letters
• Cross off each word in the bank when you use it
• Where words cross, the letter must work for both
• Across goes left to right, Down goes top to bottom