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Alabama ELA Standard: 1.LF.7.o

Decode grade-appropriate high frequency words that are spelled using predictable, decodable phoneme-grapheme correspondences.

Valentine’s Day Codes
Valentine’s Day Codes
Teach your students about basic cryptography and code making.
Gr 1-5
Word Ladder: Fly to Bee (6-steps)
Word Ladder: Fly to Bee (6-steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Gr 1-8
Word Ladder: Wild to Tame (5-steps)
Word Ladder: Wild to Tame (5-steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Gr 1-8
Words Within Words: PATRICK
Words Within Words: PATRICK
How many words can you find within Patrick?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: RAINBOW
Words Within Words: RAINBOW
How many words can you find within rainbow?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: COBWEB
Words Within Words: COBWEB
How many words can you find within COBWEB?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: WREATH
Words Within Words: WREATH
How many words can you find within WREATH?
Gr 1-5
Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)
Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)
Now let’s try the Path Cipher – a cipher that mixes things up even more than Zig Zag did.
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8
Pig Pen Cipher (Codes Part 2)
Pig Pen Cipher (Codes Part 2)
Let’s encode some secret messages with a cipher that was actually used during the American Civil War!
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8
Words Within Words: GENERAL
Words Within Words: GENERAL
How many words can you find within “general”?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: TEACHER
Words Within Words: TEACHER
How many words can you find within TEACHER?
Gr 1-5
Words Within Words: AIRPLANE
Words Within Words: AIRPLANE
How many words can you find within airplane?
Gr 1-5
Word Ladder: Kid to Old (5-steps)
Word Ladder: Kid to Old (5-steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Gr 1-5
Word Ladder: Sky to Red (5-steps)
Word Ladder: Sky to Red (5-steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Gr 1-5
Word Ladder – Sun to Hot (5-steps)
Word Ladder – Sun to Hot (5-steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Gr 1-8
Word Ladder: Fire to Warm (4 Steps)
Word Ladder: Fire to Warm (4 Steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Gr 1-8
Jotto
Jotto
Who can guess the codeword first?
Gr 1-5
Ghost
Ghost
Ghost is a word-building game for two players. The first person to create an actual word loses.
Gr 1-5