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

What’s it for?
Becoming familiar with these May 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 May words have been organised into four groups, clearly showing all hidden words below the word search. There are x18 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, down)

The hidden words to find are…

• May
• spring
• bees
• World Bee Day
• maypole
• May Queen
• flower show
• bank holiday
• flowers
• blossom
• tulip
• hawthorn
• lily of valley
• fifth (month in year)
• emerald
• Gemini
• Taurus
• sun
• showers

Recommendations
We recommend that learners use a highlighter pen when finding the hidden words as highlighters enable all letters to remain visible once each word has been identified, some letters have been used more than once (for different words) so all letters need to remain visible. This word search may be printed and laminated to be reused.

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