Ransom Words

At the end of last term I visited a rural school here in the Hawkes Bay. It was all very organised and I love that as a reliever. It's always a pleasure when the students know their taskboard activities and they can all get on independently. I feel I can get on with some group reading. . One of the activities they were doing was entitled "Ransom Words". The students cut from a newspaper letter to create their spelling words in a ransom note effect. The instructions are below and the printable pdf below it.

You will need:

• ·         Old newspaper
• ·         Scissors
• ·         Glue
• ·         Reading Scrapbook
• ·         Spelling book
• ·         Story writing book

What to do:

Using the list of words from your spelling book create each word by cutting out individual letters from the newspaper headlines.

Stick the words in your Reading Scrapbook

If you don’t have spelling words to learn make a list first from your story writing book. Use words your teacher has helped you spell correctly. 

Ransom Word (pdf, 43.3KB)

An example