Anagrams and palindromes An anagram is a word made by rearranging the letters of another word; for example: thin – hint. 1. The story below does not make sense. Rearrange the letters in the words in bold print to make an anagram. Write the new word neatly above it. Now you can read the story properly! Yesterday, I dear some interesting facts about garden snails. Each
nails carries sit home no sit back. The largest type of garden nails is about the
length of a ruler. Snails can be a step when they tea a favourite garden
plant. Snails have been known to tea the gapes of books! A snail’s teeth
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2. Can you make three anagrams by rearranging the letters in ‘meat’?
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A palindrome is a word that reads the same forwards and backwards; for example: eye – eye.
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3. The answers to the clues for the crosspatch are palindromes.
o c . 1. A car made forc racing. e her r o t 2. Add ‘ma’ in front of ‘dam’. s super
Solve the crosspatch and find another palindrome in the squares in bold.
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3. Use these letters to make a palindrome – e, d, e, d.
4. Rhymes with ‘bag’.
5. ‘This apple is red, but that
apple is even
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4. The palindrome made of the letters going down is R.I.C. Publications®
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