Any topic, any week
Science vocabulary, a book’s characters, provinces and capitals, Afrikaans or isiZulu 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.CAPS links
- Grade 1Each child keeps a personal dictionary, an A5 exercise book of words they are learning.
- Grade 2Reading games and word puzzles reinforce reading and vocabulary.
- Grade 3A formal spelling programme starts, with attention to spelling patterns.
CAPS does not mention word searches, but finding a word letter by letter makes children look closely at its spelling. Take the words from the class word wall, the week’s phonics or a Life Skills theme.
Word searches also suit an Afrikaans First Additional Language class from Grade 2, once children are reading Afrikaans: use the theme words and say each one aloud together as it is found.
Summarised in our own words from the DBE’s CAPS for English Home Language, Foundation Phase, and Afrikaans Eerste Addisionele Taal (2011).
