Mrs. Fine’s Fourth Grade GATE

I hope your child shared their word boggler with you. Word bogglers promote a way to combine problem solving, visual discrimination, and language. A word boggler is a puzzle, a brain teaser, and a lesson in language, all rolled into one. These clever visual puzzles use words and phrases to build flexible thinking and word literacy. Each word boggler is a word or phrase that has been written so that its meaning is conveyed via the position, number, or size of the words and letters. Some of the puzzles are words while some are familiar idioms and clichés. They bring an opportunity to develop vocabulary and knowledge of often-used phrases in the form of motivating brainteasers. Students analyze the way the words are written (size, position, and direction) to solve each boggler and match it with its definition.

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