Antonym Clues Crossword

Have your child read every clue first and mark the words they already know in the word bank. Fill the sure answers, then use the crossing letters to place the rest, like independence or telescope. Check with the answer key.

Solve a crossword where each clue is an antonym, like temporary for permanent and defeat for victory. An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another word. Each clue gives an antonym of the answer. The directions on the page read: Read each Across and Down clue. Then, find the answer in the word bank and write it in the boxes that start at the clue's number, one letter in each box. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 5th Grade vocabulary, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with vocabulary crosswords. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

It is a crossword where each clue is a short definition of a word the child is learning, like A bowl-shaped hole on the moon for crater. The child finds the word in the word bank and writes it in the boxes, one letter in each box.

Solar System Words Crossword uses words like planet, orbit and comet, American Revolution Words Crossword uses colony, militia and treaty, and Matter Words Crossword uses liquid, solution and mass. These are the science and history words 5th graders meet in class (CCSS L.5.6).

Every clue on Antonym Clues Crossword is the opposite of the answer, so rude leads to polite, modern leads to ancient and shrink leads to expand. It practices words with opposite meanings (CCSS L.5.5.C).

Yes. All 4 vocabulary crosswords have an answer key with every box filled in.