Word search puzzles are grids of letters arranged in rows and columns. At first glance they appear to be a completely random mishmash of letters, but if you look closely you can see within the grid that there are hidden words. The words may be placed horizontally (either left to right or right to left), vertically (upwards or downwards) or diagonally. The goal of the puzzle is to find the words hidden within the grid. Many people find these puzzles to be an interesting diversion, and you will often see this type of puzzle printed in magazines or newspapers. But it's not only adults who may enjoy these puzzles - many children like solving them too.
Children's interest in these type of puzzles can be a good thing as solving a word search puzzle might help a child in a number of areas.-
* First, to solve the puzzle, a child must pay close and careful attention to the task - a child will soon learn that concentration and persistence pays off!
* Secondly, most word search puzzles are accompanied by a list of words to search for. Children may encounter new words through these puzzles, and thus expand their vocabulary.
* Thirdly, in order to find words with the puzzle grid, a child must pay close attention to the exact spelling of each of the words.
A parent or teacher wanting to expose children to word search puzzles could of course buy a printed book full of word search puzzles, but the problem with this is that you don't get to choose the words. An alternative idea is to make and print your own puzzles - with the help of appropriate word search puzzle maker software it's actually very quick and easy to do. Using the right software also provides other advantages - you can print as many copies of each puzzle as you want, and you can even choose the size of the letter grid or directions words are hidden in (for example by turning off diagonal and backward directions), so as to adjust the puzzle difficulty.
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