Word play is fun and it stretches the brain to see words and letters in different ways. Anagrams are one kind of word play to excite learners.
Try these words, with rearranged letters back-to-front, as new words:
on becomes no and spot becomes tops or pots
Try these with your students:
dare teas stale slap pear meat
acre sore bus not stone sale
Then ‘turn the students loose’ to find and record other words as you create long lists of other anagrams. It’s fun, it can be an easy or complex challenge and, it excites students to analyze words in a different way.