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What’s included?
This download includes x2 (portrait orientation, pdf) A4 sheets, featuring one Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday word search (page 1) and answers (page 2).

What’s it for?
Becoming familiar with these Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday related words (both reading them on-sight and learning the correct spellings) will extend vocabulary - helping improve learners reading and writing, speaking and listening.

Who’s it for?
This word search has been carefully designed to encourage young readers in the early years and pupils in years one and two (as well as students needing additional learning support) with reading key words. Nouns are illustrated to make the meaning of these words clear to learners - which would also benefit pupils with EAL.

Resource layout
The word search letters are arranged in a x12 by x12 square grid, featuring easy to read ‘Sassoon Infant Std’ font.

The Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday words have been organised into four groups, clearly showing all hidden words below the word search. There are an amazing x28 words to find in total!

The directions of these hidden words are…

• horizontal (forwardsand backwards)
• vertical (up as well as down)
• diagonal (forwards, up and down. Backwards, up and down)

The hidden words to find are…

• Lent
• pancakes
• race
• Shrove
• savoury
• sweet
• Tuesday
• utensils
• bowl
• jug
• pan
• spatula
• flip
• mix
• stir
• ingredients
• batter
• butter
• oil
• milk
• eggs
• flour
• toppings
• blueberries
• honey
• jam
• lemon
• sugar
• syrup

Recommendations
When completing the word search, we recommend using a highlighter pen. This keeps all letters visible, as some are used in more than one word. The word search can also be laminated for repeated use.

Important message…
Any issues with this resource please get in touch - we are happy to make changes.