Four famous quotations cryptic puzzles for Valentine's Day are guaranteed to activate students' problem solving strategies and support vocabulary building skills. Suitable for use in high school 9-12 grades classrooms. Each of the 4 different cryptogram quotes is unique. Authors' names follows the ellipses. Suitable for use in all classrooms: regular, digital, Google™ and homeschooling. Use differentiated instruction to facilitate instruction at earlier grades or English language learners who have acquired an intermediate level of English proficiency.
To complete the printable version:
-download the puzzle to print
-review the encrypted clues to try to determine letter patterns, commonly known words related to Valentine's Day
-decode the encrypted words to reveal the correct answer
-record the letter substitutions in the table at the top of the page
-continue to decode the cryptogram to solve the puzzle
To complete the Google Slides™version:
-use the link to copy the file to your computer
-review the encrypted clues to try to determine letter patterns, commonly known words related to Valentine's Day
-decode the encrypted words to reveal the correct answer
-use the text tool to record the letter substitutions in the table at the top of the page
-use the text tool to record the correct letters above each encoded letter in the puzzle
-continue to decode the cryptogram to solve the puzzle
SPECIAL HINTS for solving cryptograms:
-when reviewing the sequence of letters for the quote, try to 'hear' words and infer from the letter patterns what the words might be (e.g. use of the words love, wish, happy, the, you)
-look for single letters which would imply either the letter A, or the letter I
-watch for an apostrophe in a word, which could imply letters, t or s OR a double letter after the apostrophe might imply double |l| (e.g. YWF'UU)
-look at the frequency of certain letter or word combinations in the cryptogram (e.g. QM, YWF, IEC) and relate that to knowledge of letter frequency
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