Enter your words, questions or definitions once, and Wordwall turns them into printable worksheets. A list of pairs can come out as a crossword, a wordsearch, an anagram, flash cards or a matching sheet, with an answer key if you want one. Print it or download a PDF.
A worksheet library hands you a finished PDF. Somebody else chose the words, the reading level and the format.
Wordwall does something different. You enter your content once, and the printable follows the shape of that content rather than the name of the activity type. A list of pairs becomes a crossword, a wordsearch, an anagram, a set of flash cards, a matching sheet, or a written exercise. Change a word and reprint every format from it.
The same five words and meanings, printed four ways.
Cut out revision cards, paired practice
Pairing terms to meanings, translations, labels
Spelling, vocabulary recall, early finishers
Definitions, terminology, extended homework
| Format | Good for |
|---|---|
| Crossword | Definitions, terminology, extended homework |
| Wordsearch | Vocabulary recognition, cover lessons, settling tasks |
| Anagram | Spelling, vocabulary recall, early finisher tasks |
| Flash cards | Cut out revision cards, paired practice |
| Match up, draw a line | Pairing terms to meanings, translations, labels |
| Match up, write the answer | The same content as a written exercise |
| Unjumble | Sentence order, word order, sequencing |
| Quiz | Written answers, end of topic checks |
| Group sort | Classification, odd one out, category work |
| Complete the sentence | Grammar, cloze reading, context practice |
| Writing frame, Drawing frame | Open response, labelling, younger classes |
A quiz, where each question already carries its own answer options, converts into fewer of these. Pair and word list activities convert the widest.
Leave printed worksheets that need no login, no device and no explanation. The person covering the lesson hands out paper, and keeps the answer key.
One shared screen, or none. The content still works, on paper.
A worksheet goes home in a bag. No account, no app, nothing for a parent to set up.
Play it on screen on Monday, hand out the crossword on Wednesday, use the flash cards for revision on Friday. Enter the content once.
Screen time in schools has become a policy question in the US and the UK. Printing means you keep the content you built and deliver it on paper when the policy, the room or the lesson calls for it.
Keep a printed wordsearch or anagram set for the five minutes you did not plan for.
| Wordwall | A worksheet library | |
|---|---|---|
| Whose content | Yours. Your words, your reading level | Somebody else’s, fixed |
| Editing | Change the content, reprint every format | Download again and hope it fits |
| Formats from one input | Up to 12 from the same list | One per download |
| Answer key | A toggle | If they published one |
| Same content on screen | Yes, 34 interactive activity types | No |
| Language | Anything you type | Whatever was published |
Printing and PDF download are on Standard and Pro. The free Basic plan creates and plays activities but does not print.
| Basic | Standard | Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Create and play activities | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Print any activity | No | Yes | Yes |
| Download activities as PDFs | No | Yes | Yes |
| Activity types | 12 | 12 | 34 |
| Community activities to search and adapt | No | Yes | Yes |
No. Printing and PDF download are on Standard and Pro. You can create and play activities on the free Basic plan.
Any activity you create. The worksheet format does not have to match the activity type, so a matching activity can print as a crossword.
It depends on your content. A list of words or pairs converts into up to 12 different worksheets. A quiz, where each question carries its own answer options, converts into fewer.
Yes. The print options include a toggle for the answer key, along with your own instruction line, copies per page and page orientation.
Both. Print or Download sends it to your printer or saves a PDF, whichever you pick.
Yes. The worksheet uses whatever you typed, in any language.
Edit the activity and print it again. The content and the worksheet are the same thing, so there is no second file to keep in step.
No. It is paper.