How to Create a Word Search Puzzle
Here’s a classic game that provides young learners with a low stress learning experience. Word search puzzles help students review words (improve fluency), learn to recognize words at sight (improve automaticity), and work on spelling (useful for words with non-standard consonant and vowel combinations, like thought or comb).
They’re also fun, which helps children link good feelings with word learning, an important attribute that helps foster a lifelong love of reading. If you’re an ESL teacher with older students, you can easily adapt word searches to create a fun competitive team game.
The problem with some ready-to-copy word searches is that the vocabulary list doesn’t match the reading level, lesson topic, or learning needs of the students. That’s where AIPRM prompts can help. You can quickly generate a draft custom word list that meets the needs of your students and reinforces (or assesses) subject matter learning.
In this article, I show you how to create a custom word list. Then you’ll copy the word list into a free online word search tool and create the puzzle. With a bit of copying and pasting, you can have a fresh word search puzzle with targeted vocabulary in a few minutes.
Generating a word list #
- Log into ChatGPT.
- On the AIPRM dashboard, click the Public tab.
- Go to the search field and enter kdp word list.
- Select the KDP Word Search Puzzles (Word Lists) prompt.
Here is the prompt I used to create a custom word list. You can customize.
Ignore all other searches. Create a grade 4 science class word list with 20 words. Each word should have 8 letters or fewer. Show the list without numbers or bullets.
Here are the results.
Creating a puzzle #
Go to your favorite online word search puzzle generator. I like this site, but there are others.
That’s it. Now you know how to generate a targeted word list and create a word search with AIPRM.
Read more #
If you have any questions or need further assistance, our tutorials guide you every step of the way. Reach out to the AIPRM Community Forum and we’ll help you get started.