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Word Study for Writers: Anagrams

recommended for writers, ages 11 and up

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6+1 Trait Alert: Anagrams are word games people play with small words or larger phrases. This type of wordplay, even when away from larger writing assignments, encourages playing with the language and taking risks with words, which helps improves a writer's Word Choice. Click here to learn more about the writing traits and WritingFix.

Hey Writers and Teachers: Challenge yourself by devoting a page in your journal or your writer's notebook to a study of personal and favorite anagrams. An anagram is where a writer takes all the letters of a word, a proper name, a favorite expression, or something even longer...and scrambles all the letters up to make a new word, or name, or expressions. It doesn't work with every word or name or expression, but when it does...watch out! It's fun.

A page devoted in a journal or notebook encourages a writer to think in anagrams and return to the page to record them later. It's excellent for left-brains that like to dissect language...and it forces writers to think about words differently.

To get started with anagrams, visit our FAVORITE on-line celebration of anagrams (some of our anagrams came from this wonderful online collection) by clicking here.

Instructions for Students/Writers: Take one page in your journal or notebook and label it FAVORITE ANAGRAMS. Throughout the year, challenge yourself to think of anagrams as you learn new words or think about old words differently.

Make anagrams (when possible) for new spelling words or new vocabulary words. Record them on your ANAGRAM page, and show them off when you come up with a really good one. An anagram is a celebration of language!

Here's some sample FAVORITE ANAGRAMS from our notebook:

One word anagrams:

teacher = cheater

student = dust net

computer = cute romp

Elvis = lives

Listen = silent

Two-word anagrams:

writing fix = twin rig fix

writing traits = a stirring twit

standardized test = a star did end zest

Snooze Alarms = Alas! No More Z's

proper name anagrams:

Arnold Schwarzenegger = He's grown large 'n' crazed

World Trade Center = Lewd Terror Act; End.

Hilary Clinton = Annoy till rich

expression/phrase anagrams:

The Florida Vote Recount = Done To Cover Their Fault

Year Two Thousand = A Year to Shut Down

The Check is in the Mail = Claim "Heck, I sent it (heh)"

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