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Easy Brain Teasers
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Try these easy brain teasers for some fun spelling and vocabulary practice! These quick questions are great to try to solve on your own. They're also fun to do with your family, students or co-workers. ESL students can enjoy these puzzlers, too.

See our suggestions for using these questions at the bottom of the page.

Brain Teaser Questions

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Easy Brain Teasers for fun spelling and vocabulary. Fun #brainteasers for kids from #spellingwordswell

Printable version of Easy Brain Teasers

Our Answers

1. List 4 or more words that contain both a G and a J.

2. Supply the first and last letters for these words:

A)_ retze _ B) _eagu_ C) _ ileag _

3. List 4 or more words spelled with four letters that contain only one consonant.

4. When the correctly-spelled words on this list are written in alphabetical order, which word is in the middle?

friend, foriegn, experience, familar, excelent, faverite, finally, excitment

5. Find the pattern in this list of words and add two more words.

domes, dimes, dikes, likes, …

6. Can you find an unusual fact about this arrangement of 6 words? (Hint: It will be helpful to draw one line.)

7. Find the pattern in this list of words and add two more words.

row, stew, dough, blue, sew, do, …

8. Spell at least 3 words that contain ff.

9. Unscramble these 3 related words.

A) apreg B) naanba C) granoe

10. List 2 or more words that are spelled with nn.

BONUS

Find the names of five animals hidden in these sentences. Check under the blue button below for answers.

The coach said we need a new catcher who can kneel for a long time, rather than someone who stands. The coach will be eager to find this player. He will rant if we don't find someone soon!

Suggestions for using these Easy Brain Teasers with students:

Write a new question on the board each morning. Allow students to write their answers and place them in a special folder anytime throughout the day. At the end of the day, review their submissions and reward the students answering correctly by adding their name to special display, giving them a small treat, or in some other way.

Use the printable version of all the questions. Allow students to work on the questions over a week or two. Then collect all their answers at the end of that time. Award extra credit for correct answers.

Always be sure to review correct answers with the entire class.

Ask students to write similar questions of their own for classmates to solve!

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Picture Puzzler and Letter Logic - Two work sheets of spelling and logic fun! In these reproducibles, students will solve clues to discover hidden words. They'll need to carefully read the clues and know the spellings for each picture.

You and your students may also enjoy these Brain Teaser Games from www.word-game-world.

Magic Word Squares - 7 printable word brain teasers. Kids will complete squares in which the same words are spelled in both directions.

Picture Puzzlers - 2 Printable brain teaser worksheets where knowing how to spell simple words is a must! In these reproducibles, students will solve clues to discover hidden words. They'll need to carefully read the clues and know the spellings for each picture.

FAQs

Question: Why are easy brain teasers important learning tools?

Answer: Brain teasers, at all levels, tap into kids' interests in a new way. Solving brain teasers is a fun, mysterious activity. The answers are not always obvious, putting all kids on a more level playing field. The best part is that they provide a change from the usual type of learning activity.

Kids should be encouraged to talk together in pairs or small groups about possible solutions until they find a plausible solution. Then they should test out their ideas to see if one or more of their answers is correct.

Question: What kinds of easy brain teasers are good for early learners?

Answer: Ask students to solve these kinds of questions:

Unscramble words at an appropriate level of difficulty on a related theme.
Brainstorm! Can students list 5-10 words with the same spelling pattern, or on the same topic?
Can they solve Magic Word Squares, crosswords, or a variety of challenging word challenges?
Can they answer riddles with multiple-meaning words?
Are they able to pose their own easy brain teasers to their classmates and then explain their own solutions?

Are you ready for the answers to the Bonus activity? Just look here!

The coach said we need a new CATcher who can knEEL for a long time, RATher than someone who stands. The coach will BE Eager to find this player. He will rANT if we don't find someone soon! CAT, EEL, RAT, BEE, ANT

Ann Richmond Fisher is a longtime published educational writer, a former classroom teacher and a former homeschool teacher. Ann's spelling bee resources, graded spelling word lists, spelling games, worksheets, and other language arts resources have become respected around the globe since she launched Spelling-Words-Well in 2010.

Ann is also the creator of www.word-game-world.com.

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