Six Italian words for what you put on in the morning

The word list down the side shows twelve garments; six of them have their Italian names hidden in the grid. A shoe marks SCARPA, a skirt marks GONNA, an apron marks GREMBIULE. Your child reads along a row, then down a column, waiting for the letters to line up into one of the six, and rings it when they do. The pictures mean nobody has to guess what the answers might be.

Nothing on this sheet needs sounding out. What it rehearses is recognition: meeting the written shape of an Italian word often enough that it leaps out of a crowd of letters. GILET and VESTITO give a beginner an easy start. CAMICETTA is the long one at nine letters, and children often lose their place halfway along it and begin the row again, which is fine and part of the practice.

Print it when you want a quiet ten minutes that still counts as Italian: after school, in a waiting room, on a wet Saturday morning. Say the six words aloud together before the hunt starts, so the sound and the spelling arrive at once. When the grid is finished, point at a picture and ask for the word back. Most children can hand you three or four of them by then.