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Words for our Election Word Find are listed alphabetically below.
Boondoggle, Campaign, Candidate, Canvass, Charisma, Coattails, Constituents, Controversy, Ethics, Gerrymander, Hypocrisy, Incumbent, Issues, Nominate, Oratory, Party, Petition, Pollister, Primary, Seniority, Strategy, Tactics, Voter
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The 12 comic strip words listed alphabetically are:
adverse, bunk, candidate, canvass, charisma, controversy, declare, eloquent, gracious, jubilant, strategy and veto
We have created seven more exercises that will challenge your understanding of many election related words:
- Interactive Word Puzzles - submit answers, get contextual sentences back
- Definition Match activity - from the 12 comic strip story words
- Crossword Puzzle - using the 12 comic strip story words
- Super Crossword - a challenge using 40 different election related words
- Word Find Activity - find 23 election-related words - you are here!
- Election Story - create a story similiar to these 2 samples
- Election Comic Strip Story - 12 comic strip campaign story
- Fill-in-the-Blanks exercise - 12 comic strip words plus 9 more appplicable words
If you want our free alphabetical vocabulary list of 100+ election-related words (called an "Alphalary") and 50+ election cliches, email your request to Election Words. Please include your school, city, state and grade you teach, if applicable.You may copy of any of our "activity cluster" activities above for use at home or in the classroom!
Click here for "Teacher's tips & ideas" on how to use our "Alphalary" lists.
Reminder:
Don't forget to complete other activities and educational exercises from our current Session #139:Interactive puzzles at grade level: ["S139 Level 1"] -- ["S139 Level 2"] -- ["S139 Level 3"]
Crosswords: ["S139Level 1 C/W"] -- ["S139Level 2 C/W"] -- ["S139Level 3 C/W"]
Find the Words: ["S139Level 1 WF"] -- ["S139Level 2 WF"] -- ["S139Level 3 WF"]
Fill-in-the-Blanks: ["S139Level 1-FITB"] -- ["S139Level 2-FITB"] -- ["S139Level 3-FITB"]
Definition MATCH: ["S139Level 1-Match"] -- ["S139Level 2-Match"] -- ["S139Level 3-Match"]
Contextual Stories: ["S139Level 1 Story"] -- ["S139Level 2 Story"] -- ["S139Level 3 Story"]
Is It True or False?: ["S139Level 1 T/F"] -- ["S139Level 2 T/F"] -- ["S139Level 3 T/F"]
Synonym/Antonym Encounters: [S139Level 1-Syn/Ant] -- [S139Level 2-Syn/Ant] -- [S139Level 3-Syn/Ant]
Any questions can be directed to Jan and Carey Cook at Vocabulary University for clarification. If you are a teacher, please give us the name, city, state/country of your school. For details on other thematic content click School Thematic Content Calendar.If you want our free "Alphalary" (alphabetical vocabulary list) of 310 science-related words just email your request to Science Words. Please include your school, city, state/country and grade you teach, if applicable.
We also have a thematic Alphalaries on Earth/Environment/Conservation. Email your request to EARTH Words.
Have you tried our set of puzzles inspired by Harry Potter? "Visit our Wizard puzzles". If you want our alphabetical list of 160 Wizard-related words just email your request to Wizard Words. Please include your school, city, state/country and grade you teach, if applicable.
If you want any of our 110 "Alphalaries" (alphabetical vocabulary list) go to 110 Alphalary Word Lists or, in particular, our 432 Character-Ed related words just email your request to Character Education Words. Please include the name of your school, city, state/country and grade you teach, if applicable.
For hints on how to use our thematic "alphalary" lists go to Thematic Alphalary Words.
"Election" Link exercises:
[Interactive Word Puzzles] [Crossword] [Comic Strip] [Word Find] - you are here!
[Fill-in-Blanks] [Word story] [Big Crossword] [Matching]
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