🔠 How to create an Anagram activity – Wordwall

The Anagram template is a fantastic way to challenge students on spelling, word recognition, and vocabulary. It takes your words or phrases and splits them into individual letters for the student to unscramble.

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How is the Anagram played?
How to Create an Anagram Activity
Where can I find some more examples?

How is the Anagram activity played?

The game presents a series of scrambled letter tiles on the screen.

The interaction: The user clicks and drags the individual letters to move them around and form the target words.
Real-time feedback: As letters are moved into their rightful spots, they automatically snap into place and are marked as correct.
The results: On the final screen, the user can see the correct answers, review their submitted responses, enter their name on the leader board, or complete the activity again.

Creating your Anagram activity

Click "Create Activity", search for Anagram in the search box, and select the template.
You have two ways to set the prompt:
- Click "Generate with AI" and type a prompt you want.
- Or simply type your own instructions into the activity title or instruction field.
Choose Your Mode: a
- Without Clues: Pure unscrambling—only the jumbled letters are shown.
- With Clues: Highly recommended for younger learners or second-language practice. You can provide a definition or an image to prompt the word.
Type the words or short phrases you want students to unscramble.
Click "Add a phrase" or press Enter to add the next item.
Click "Done" to generate the activity.
Scroll down to Visuals style to add a creative style to your activity, or tailor the difficulty in the Options panel below the activity:
- TIMER:
  - None: Great for relaxed practice.
  - Count up: Ideal for timing student speed.
  - Count down: Adds a layer of urgency (e.g., 30 seconds to solve the word).
- MARKING:
  - Every letter: The game gives instant feedback as soon as a letter is dropped in the right spot.
  - Every letter with bonus for perfect: Rewards students who get it right on the first try.
  - On submit: Students must arrange all letters first and click "Submit" to see if they are correct (the most challenging mode).
  - Automatically proceed: Check this if you want the game to move to the next word immediately after a correct answer.
- CHANGE CASE: Choose Don't change, All uppercase, or All lowercase to standardize the letters regardless of how you typed them.
- LAYOUT:a
  - Letters start above word: Neatly places scrambled letters in a line at the top.
  - Rearrange letters: Scatters letters randomly, which can be slightly harder to visually process.
- RANDOM:
  - Shuffle item order: If you have 10 words, this ensures they don't appear in the same order every time a student plays.
- END OF GAME:
  - Show answers: Allows students to see the correct spelling of any words they missed.

Creating Anagram with AI

You don't need to be a prompt expert to use our AI. It is designed to be intuitive and accessible from within the activity creator.

Click Create Activity and select Anagram.
Look for the ✨ Generate with AI button at the top right of the content table.
Enter Your Content:
- Topic: Type a subject like "Verbs" or "Chemical Elements."
- Text/Notes: Paste a paragraph to have the AI extract the most important keywords.
- File: Upload a PDF or Word doc for the AI to analyse and turn into scrambled words.
Click Generate. Review the words and clues, make any manual tweaks, and hit Done.