Literary Puzzle Book: 120 Classic Crosswords, Sudoku, and Other Puzzles for Book Lovers

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In summary, literature crossword puzzles that focus on plot, setting, characters, and theme are an excellent way to engage with and deepen your understanding of literary works. The links are there with more recent fictional detectives too – Inspector Morse loves a good cryptic crossword, and they pop up in the plots of more than one of his cases. A voracious reader with an impressive memory, Torquemada favoured literary clues, using quotations from poetry, plays and the classics. The work of Jorge Luis Borges was an early influence on them – his stories are like beautiful puzzle-boxes – intriguing, full of mazes, dreams and riddles, with secrets sliding around below the surface, waiting to be discovered.

Crosswords are great activities to practice spelling, reading, writing, spatial awareness, logic, problem-solving and independence! Numeration PDFs focus on essential numeracy skills, such as counting, place value, and number recognition. It’s estimated that some 20,000 other crossword enthusiasts completed Mathers’s weekly puzzles but didn’t compete for the prizes. Stay abreast with English word usage – many teachers tend to forget the uses of many words because most of their daily conversations are with students and not with adults.Are you looking for a fun word work activity for your students to do at stations or for morning work? Maybe you’ve even watched it evolve—at first the pages were connected with white string, but Scannell has since adopted a more user-friendly color-coding scheme involving sticky index tabs. Imagine 100 pages of obscure, dated references like that one, and you’ve got some idea what awaits you in Cain’s Jawbone. Red Kayak is a story that will engage the middle school student with current issues, concerns, and emotions. There’s artist Kit Williams’s Masquerade from 1979, in which a series of beautifully intricate paintings and a fairytale story hold clues to the whereabouts of a real treasure, a jewelled golden hare which Williams buried somewhere in the English countryside.

If your kids enjoyed this crossword take a look at the other three crosswords in my CVC Mystery Crossword Bundle! The sad story of William’s reluctant celebrity status and the betrayal by an ex-girlfriend which led to the treasure being found by frauds, is worth reading up on. The best of this genre, like Chesterton’s Father Brown stories, are elegant mini-puzzles, where all the elements necessary for a solution are laid out for the reader to make sense of if they can, before the detective reveals the truth at the end in an act of mind-bending logic.

Scannell suspects that she’s missed clues that are hidden in plain sight, simply because the nearly-90-year-old British English is so foreign to her that she doesn’t recognize them as clues at all.