Writing Word Search
This writing word search follows a piece of writing from start to finish: brainstorm, outline, draft, revise, edit, proofread and publish, with the tools from the quill to the keyboard and the parts of an essay along the way.
The steps have a history. Donald Murray, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who taught at the University of New Hampshire, argued in a 1972 essay called Teach Writing as a Process Not Product that students should be judged on their drafts and revisions, not only on a finished paper. The idea spread through American schools in the 1980s, which is why so many classrooms hang a poster of the writing process.
The tools changed more slowly. Writers used goose feather quills for over a thousand years, until cheap steel nibs took over in the 1800s. Christopher Latham Sholes patented a typewriter in 1868, and the QWERTY layout he worked out for it is still on every keyboard. Deadline is darker than it sounds: at the Civil War prison at Andersonville, it was a line inside the stockade that no prisoner could cross and live.
Free Writing Word Search Online Game
Play the Writing word search in your browser, on your own or head to head against a friend in real time. Nothing to install and no account needed – send someone the link and you are both looking at the same grid.
Writing Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Writing word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
Print or Download pdfMedium
12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
Print or Download pdfEasy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
Print or Download pdf
Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Writing has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Audience
- Brainstorm
- Byline
- Caption
- Conclusion
- Deadline
- Draft
- Edit
- Eraser
- Evidence
- Expository
- Font
- Headline
- Hook
- Ink
- Introduction
- Journal
- Keyboard
- Letter
- Margin
- Memoir
- Narrative
- Notebook
- Opinion
- Outline
- Pencil
- Persuasive
- Prewrite
- Proofread
- Publish
- Purpose
- Quill
- Revise
- Rubric
- Thesis
- Topic Sentence
- Transition
- Typewriter
- Voice
- Word Choice