Sparrow, hawk and quail — six more birds, named in Norwegian and hiding

This grid holds the Norwegian names of six birds, with a picture for each so nothing has to be guessed. FLAMINGO is spelled exactly as it is in English and tends to fall out of the grid first. HAUK, the hawk, is nearly as easy. After those two the hunt slows down, which is rather the point: the child is now reading rather than pattern-matching.

DUE, the dove, is three letters long and therefore the hardest to see; short words vanish inside a grid in a way long ones never do. SPURV ends in a consonant pair that English words rarely end with, so the eye slides over it. VAKTEL and KRAKE give nothing away from their spelling, so a child has to hold the written shape in mind and search for it deliberately. That deliberate holding is the skill.

A page like this suits the end of a session, when a child has heard the words but is not ready to write them. Six is few enough to finish in one sitting. If your child already has the earlier birds sheet, run the two a week apart rather than back to back — the difference between KRAKE and HAUK is easier to feel once the first set of words has settled.