Free phonics games and activities to print: Word Search Puzzles

! Make your standard word search with text or use images as the text hints.

This generator lets you make a unique type of word search for phonics exercises or spelling practice. You can select images that you want to use and type in any text you'd like to be entered into the puzzle. So, you can choose from 400+ images to create printable games to supplements your current phonics resources or to support students working with the phonics workbooks from this site. It's super simple, easy to use, fast, but very powerful.

Choose the type of puzzles you'd like to make and the word search maker will open in a new tab

What makes this word search different from others?

- Thanks for asking! :) This template doesn't just have students look at a word and try to find it. Instead, you can use images and students have to think about how the word is spelled. They can write it below the image and then try to find it in the puzzle to verify they were correct. It makes the word search a 'work' sheet and not a simple time-filler.

- With the text only version, you can have different text than the puzzle. So, you can enter a question as your hint and it will work just like a crossword puzzle. Students will have to read the question, think about the answer and find it. Again, by doing this, you are making this activity a 'work' sheet, not just a printable game.

- You can enter the word as scrambled text for students to unscramble and then find.

It may be a good idea to go over each of the images with the students one time if they are not familiar with the content from Fun Fonix.

There is a print menu if you are on a PC, but if you are using a mobile device the menu may not appear. You will need to print the word search just like you would print any page off the Internet.

This word search maker comes courtesy of one of my other site: Tools for Educators - at Tools for Educators.com find this worksheet generators and many more with 1000s of images to choose from.