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Word Study for Writers:
Palindromes

recommended for writers, ages 12 and up

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6+1 Trait Alert: Palindromes are word games people play with small words or larger phrases. This type of wordplay, even when away from larger writing assignments, encourages playing with the language and taking risks with words, which helps improves a writer's Word Choice. Click here to learn more about the writing traits and WritingFix.

Hey Writers and Teachers: Challenge yourself by devoting a page in your journal or your writer's notebook to a study of personal and favorite palindromes. A palindrome is a word or a series of words that--if reversed--says the exact same thing. There are many famous palindromes. Every once in a while, you stumble across a new one. Or if bored, you can invent new ones.

A page devoted in a journal or notebook encourages a writer to think in palindromes and return to the page to record them later. It's excellent for left-brains that like to dissect language...and it forces writers to think about words differently.

To get started with anagrams, visit our FAVORITE on-line celebration of one-word palindromes and palindrome facts by clicking here. Longer and more advanced palindromes can be found here.

Below find some samples from our PALINDROME page in our Writer's Notebook:

Student/Writer Instructions: A palindrome is a very unique word or phrase. Look at the following examples and figure out what they all have in common!

easy palindromes:

Otto
mom
dad
level
reviver
pull-up
race car
a Toyota
never even

harder palindromes:

A Santa at NASA
borrow or rob
cigar = tragic
evil olive
Dr. Awkward

palindromes we discovered on our own while writing:

evil olive
damn mad
lion oil
gnu dung
dumb mud
evil alive
avid diva

Instructions for Students/Writers: Take one page in your journal or notebook and label it FAVORITE PALINDROMES. Throughout the year, challenge yourself to think of palindromes as you learn new words or think about old words differently.

Make palindromes (when possible) for new spelling words or new vocabulary words. Record them on your PALINDROME page, and show them off when you come up with a really good one. An palindrome is a celebration of language!

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