Island of the Blue Dolphins Vocabulary Puzzle
Based on the book by Scott O'Dell

Make a crossword puzzle for your classmates using at least 30 of these vocabulary words from the story.

1. Open a word processing document, Simple Text or TextEdit document. Type a title.
SAVE this document to your class folder or documents folder.

2. Make a list of words and clues.
a. Separate each word and its clue with a slash "/" character.
b. Press the Enter key once after each clue, except for the last clue.
c. Clues can be up to 255 character long.
d. SAVE this document after each new clue is added. Nobody likes to lose their work. :-(

3. Highlight .. Copy the words and clues. Go to the web page linked above.
Paste them into the online form.

4. Click Create Puzzle.

5. Follow the directions - "Click puzzle to see your puzzle." Print it on paper or Print to pdf.

Or Save a copy of the puzzle to your class folder.

Here are just some of the interesting words in the book:

abalones
aleuts
anchored
awl
baited
basket
beach
binding
brackish
bull
canoe
cave
chafting
Chumash
circlet
clamor
cliff
coral
cove
crest
crevice
crouching
current
dawn
deserted
dunes
dusk
elephant seal
fledging
foreleg
gesture
giddy
glistening
glossier
gnawed
gorged
gruel

haunches
headland
hobble
horizon
island
kelp
lair
league
lupine
omen
ornament
otter
paces
pelican
pelt
pitch
poisonous
plank
quivering
ravine
reef
rontu
roost