Create Custom Anagram Worksheet

Word Scramble (Anagram) Worksheets

Welcome to our Custom Anagram Worksheet Generator! This tool will help you create a custom anagram worksheet for any purpose – whether you’re a parent looking to entertain one child or a teacher trying to entertain dozens of them. Read on to learn more about how you can use our Custom Anagram Worksheet Generator and to learn about the other tools we have available for teachers.

How to Use the Custom Anagram Worksheet Generator

1. Decide which parts of the worksheet you’d like to include. Our tool includes options to have a footer, a page border, a watermark, and a name and date section. Use the checkmarks at the top of the page to decide if you’d like to include these features or not.
2. Decide if you’d like to number your anagrams. Also, decide if you’d like to arrange the anagrams in a single list or two columns. If you’d like your anagrams to be numbered (i.e., from 1-10), make sure the ‘numbered’ checkbox is marked. Similarly, if you’d like your anagrams to be split into two separate columns, click the ‘column’ checkmark.
3. Click in the preview box to set the title. By clicking into the title textbox, you can change the title to a custom label.
4. Set your description, also in the preview box. You can make this description as long or short as you like; the description box will expand to accommodate additional text if necessary.
5. If you’d like an image on the page, include it. By clicking the image icon within the preview box, you will be able to upload an image from your computer to feature on the page.
6. Add your anagrams. Click the yellow box to add your anagrams. Our tool will auto-scramble these anagrams for you; you do not need to do the scrambling yourself! Instead, simply enter the words you would like to include on your worksheet.
7. Add a hidden word, if desired. A hidden word is a word made up of letters from all of the other words included on your worksheet. For instance, if your worksheet includes the words ‘sad,’ ‘bad,’ and ‘sore,’ you could include the hidden word ‘as.’ On the worksheet, the hidden letters will be circled, and there would be a textbox at the top of the page where students can unscramble these hidden letters. However, it is important to remember that the hidden word must be composed of letters contained within your other words. For longer lists, you can usually assume that almost any simple word can be used as a hidden word. However, for shorter lists of words, or more complex hidden words, keep in mind that sometimes our tool will not be able to generate the worksheet you desire. If your hidden word doesn’t work, our tool will not add the hidden word section to the page. This will be your cue to change your input words or change your hidden word.
8. At any time if you want to change the words entered, click the orange edit button at the top left-hand corner of the worksheet preview.
9. Once you’ve got your worksheet where you want it, click the teal download button at the top right corner of the worksheet preview. This will generate a pdf that includes both the blank version of the worksheet and a filled-out answer key. You can then print this pdf or distribute it electronically to your students.

How to Make Worksheets Engaging for Students

Okay, so you’ve got an awesome worksheet, and you’re excited to give it to your students. But when you tell them you’re doing a worksheet, they groan. You try to tell them it’ll be fun, but no dice. How are you supposed to keep them engaged and interested?

Though there are no hard and fast rules with entertaining kids – who can predict, really, what they’ll do on any given day? – there are a few ways you can make your worksheets more fun for them. Here are a few tips on how to make worksheets fun for students:

1. Let students use fun, colored pens.

Especially for younger students, one of the best – and easiest – ways to keep them engaged is to make a worksheet special. One way to do that is to let them use the colorful, glittery pens they bought at the beginning of the school year but haven’t been able to use on any other assignments. Yes, it might make the worksheets harder for you to read or grade – so don’t use this tip on important worksheets. But for something fun that’s focused on letting students practice their skills, this easy rule change can increase engagement significantly.

2. Or, laminate your worksheets and use dry-erase markers.

In a similar vein, you can try laminating your worksheets and asking students to fill them out with dry-erase markers. Again, this makes it hard for you to grade worksheets, since the answers might be thick and illegible, or might get wiped away. But for those worksheets you give out primarily to fill time – come on, we know they exist – this can be a fun way to mix things up and keep kids entertained.

3. Rather than asking them to complete all the questions on a worksheet, let them choose a certain number of questions to answer.

One of the most frustrating things for students about being given a worksheet is the lack of flexibility and agency in the assignment. To give students more control, allow them to choose which questions on the sheet they want to answer. They should still answer most of them, of course; but if you have a page of ten anagrams, for instance, that you’d like unscrambled, consider allowing them to choose eight to unscramble, and two to leave as-is. You’ll likely find kids are so focused on deciding which questions to answer and which to leave blank that the classroom will be much quieter than usual.

4. Let students work with a partner – ideally, of their choice.

Let’s admit it: partner work can be rough for teachers. There are always those few chatterbox kids who, upon being paired up with their best friend, completely forget that there is even an assignment to be done. And, worse, these loud students can distract the usually quiet and diligent learners. Still, if you’re really struggling to keep kids engaged, sometimes it can be worth letting them do group work. If you want to make sure the collaboration is educational, you can set a rule that students have to agree on each answer they write down. This will test students on their compromising and persuasive skills.

5. Use Kahoot!

This one only works for high-schoolers or some middle-school groups, but it’s a good tip nonetheless. Kahoot! is an app that allows a teacher to ask students a question, and for students to enter their own answers. Students are given points for the accuracy and speed of their responses, which accumulate over the course of the game until a winner is crowned at the end. This can be a great way to spark students’ competitive spirits and get them engaged in an assignment that they might otherwise be tempted to blow off.

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