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We enjoy playing with words... ...jokes, puns, riddles and rhymes.
Newspaper Fun!
We use words when we speak or write. We use
them in songs, stories, poems, letters and
speeches! We use words to tell others what we
are thinking, how we are feeling or how things
work. We use words for fun too! We love to “play”
on words in jokes and riddles, and in other ways.
Play On Words
1. a ______________ word shrinks a word making it easier to say; airplane = plane
2. word that is spelled the same backwards and forwards; kayak
3. series of words with the same starting sound; big bad boy
4. words with the same letters, but moved around; cat - act
5. words that resemble the sound they are talking about; whiz, bang
6. set of “opposite” words; jumbo shrimp, small crowd
7. swapping of letters or syllables in words;
bunny rabbit = runny babbit
8. a tongue __________ puts together
words that are hard to say in a row;
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
9. an exaggerated statement; I died laughing
10. putting two words together to make a new
word; squeeze + crunch = scrunch
zz
11. words that have the same ending sound; very cherry
u 12. a humor-filled story or trick; knock, knock!
13. giving human-like abilities to something non-human;
the wind howled, time marches on
14. a word named after a real person; teddy bear (Theodore Roosevelt)
15. a clever question that needs thought to be answered; What loses
its head each morning, and gets it back in the evening? A pillow!
Dear Forest,
At the picnic today, a fast pitch from the baseball pitcher
broke a pitcher, and the pieces flew into a warm pitch patch
that sealed a hole in the walkway! A bowl of squash skidded
off the table and squashed tomatoes in a basket. After I clean
the mess and the rest I will need a rest!
And so I seal my letter with a seal
to send to you!
mom
dad
pop
did
eve
dud
nun
eye
bob
tot
43 42
40
39
38
noon
deed
peep
toot
28
level
racecar
madam
P.S. Follow the numbers
to see it.
26 25
Step on no pets.
Was it a rat I saw?
No lemon, no melon.
Too hot to hoot!
O
T
S NA P
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personification
joke
1 2
rhyme
Your Pal,
Squeak
L
T
A ‘palindrome’ is a word that can be read forward and backward. Sometimes a person thinks up a sentence
that can be read forward and backward too! Read these words and sentences, then find them in the puzzle!
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Word Ex-Change!
You can make a play on words just by exchanging
letters in words. After you finish the activity below,
try to write one of your own and share it with a friend.
1. Change the “sn” to “tr” and see the “goo”.
2. Add an “n” to this word and you’ll know
what the cow said and what she jumped over.
3. Change the first letter to “b” and
you’ll know what happened to my car.
4. Change the “k” to “t” and you’ll see
what a dog gave me as I was riding by.
5. Change the “ch” to “cl” and it will close
your snack bag.
snail
moo
fender
bike
chip
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Potato
Chips
6
3
12
9
DRI
P
UACK
Too Hot to Hoot!
palindrome
twister
hyperbole
portmanteau
eponym
riddle
alliteration
anagram
clipped
onomatopoeia
spoonerism
oxymoron
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12
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Don’t be chicken! Some of the words
are long, but I sprinkled in
letters to help you
fit them into the
crossword!
Read the clues to fill in the crossword puzzle with
different kinds of word play that we have fun with:
I have a bill
in my bill to
pay my
bill.
T G R M A D A M Y X U C X W D E E D F I G F P N T S
T O O H O T T O H O O T V L J S W K W F H R L O O P
K S T A E R W X K R P O P F O B R F V J Y A L O O E
U K B A B T S I K A Y A K O N O B W A A D D E N T E
P R E O S F W P H Y E R A C E C A R J N A A V N D P
U S C E B A D U N D I D L C O C H T Y F D R E E U B
N E E C P U E W A S I T A R A T I S A W Z A L M T N
V S Y O D N O L E M O N N O M E L O N M J M O M I W
O U P E V E S T E P O N N O P E T S P O N G Z Y B M
sees
kayak
radar
Whew!
It really is.
Y
R
N I
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BuzzB
1. man of few words
2. man of his word
3. get the word
4. play on words
5. mum is the word
A. receive the message
B. to use words with more
than one meaning in a joke
C. to keep quiet, secret
D. keeps his promise
E. doesn’t talk very much
Match each
expression
to its
meaning: