Point to it, then find it: OCCHIO, BOCCA and DITO among the letters

Six Italian words for parts of the body, hidden in a letter grid with pictures as clues: an eye, a mouth, a finger, a thumb, a wrist and eyelashes. Your child is finding OCCHIO, BOCCA, DITO, POLLICE, POLSO and CIGLIA. The pictures mean nothing has to be worked out; the whole task is reading the rows carefully and recognising each word as it lines up. Six words in all.

Body words stick because a child can point at them. OCCHIO is the interesting spelling: the cch is said as a hard k, so it comes out roughly as ok-kyo, nothing like the ch in chair. CIGLIA is a plural, since eyelashes arrive as a set rather than one at a time. DITO is only four letters and hides well, so expect it to be circled last.

This is best done out loud. Touch the part, say the Italian, then find it in the grid — the movement fixes a word far better than reading alone ever does. If your child is learning body vocabulary for a lesson, it makes a quiet ten minutes of revision the night before. Print it again a week later and you will see plainly what has stayed. There is no timer here and nothing to score at the end.