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Grade 7 Challenge: Word Riddles Worksheet with Answers

Grade 7 (US) · Year 8 (UK) · Class 7 (India) · English

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Classic riddles that play with the double meanings of words. This free middle school worksheet has 12 questions and a full answer key. Print it or save it as a PDF — every answer is checked by code, not guessed.

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Challenge: Word Riddles

Grade 7 · English

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Class

Date

Learning goal: Challenge Puzzles

Directions: This worksheet has 2 parts. Read the instructions at the start of each part.

Example

What gets wetter the more it dries?

Answer: a towel

Part A

Match each clue to the right word. Write the letter in the box.

  1. 1What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
  2. 2The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
  3. 3What has legs but can't walk?
  4. 4What is full of holes but still holds water?
  5. 5What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish?
  6. 6What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
  • AStamp
  • BMap
  • CFootsteps
  • DWrong
  • ESponge
  • FTable
Part B

Answer each question. Use full sentences where you can.

Word bank

an echoa pianoa colda tona bottleyour age
  1. 7

    What has keys but can't open locks?

  2. 8

    What has a neck but no head?

  3. 9

    What can you catch but not throw?

  4. 10

    What goes up but never comes down?

  5. 11

    I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?

  6. 12

    Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?

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  1. 1.D — wrong
  2. 2.C — footsteps
  3. 3.F — a table (or chair)
  4. 4.E — a sponge
  5. 5.B — a map
  6. 6.A — a stamp
  7. 7.a piano
  8. 8.a bottle
  9. 9.a cold
  10. 10.your age
  11. 11.an echo
  12. 12.a ton

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Guides for teaching Challenge: Word Riddles

Context Clues: 5 Types with Examples (and How to Teach Them)Definition, synonym, antonym, example and inference clues — how readers work out unknown words without a dictionary, with sample sentences and a classroom routine.7 Reading Comprehension Strategies Every Student Should UsePredict, question, visualize, summarize and more — what good readers do automatically, and how to practise each one.Simple, Compound, Complex and Compound-Complex Sentences ExplainedA clear way to tell the four sentence structures apart, with examples and the two-question test students can use on any sentence.

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