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Arizona ELA Standard: 2.WF.3.b

With prompting and support, spell two- and three-syllable words that:

Words Within Words: February

Words Within Words: February

How many words can you find within February?

Words Within Words: RAINBOW

Words Within Words: RAINBOW

How many words can you find within rainbow?

Words Within Words: IRELAND

Words Within Words: IRELAND

How many words can you find within Ireland?

Words Within Words: CORNMAZE

Words Within Words: CORNMAZE

How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?

Words Within Words: ORNAMENT

Words Within Words: ORNAMENT

How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?

Words Within Words: WREATH

Words Within Words: WREATH

How many words can you find within WREATH?

Words Within Words: SCARECROW

Words Within Words: SCARECROW

How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?

Words Within Words: GENERAL

Words Within Words: GENERAL

How many words can you find within “general”?

Words Within Words: WESTERN

Words Within Words: WESTERN

How many words can you find within WESTERN?

Words Within Words: TEACHER

Words Within Words: TEACHER

How many words can you find within TEACHER?

Word Pyramids

Word Pyramids

Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?

Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE

Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE

One letter. Add another. And another. How tall can you build the pyramid before you run out of words?

Word Pyramid: M to CAMPUS

Word Pyramid: M to CAMPUS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Words Within Words: PARKING

Words Within Words: PARKING

How many words can you find within PARKING?

Words Within Words: TROMBONE

Words Within Words: TROMBONE

How many words can you find within TROMBONE?

Words Within Words: LEOPARD

Words Within Words: LEOPARD

How many words can you find within “leopard”?

Words Within Words: SATURN

Words Within Words: SATURN

How many words can you find within Saturn?

Word Pyramid: P to PLAINS

Word Pyramid: P to PLAINS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: T to PLANET

Word Pyramid: T to PLANET

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect T and PLANET?

Word Pyramid: O to Stones

Word Pyramid: O to Stones

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: I to LIONS

Word Pyramid: I to LIONS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: T to Patch

Word Pyramid: T to Patch

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: H to CRASH

Word Pyramid: H to CRASH

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Writing in Pilish

Writing in Pilish

Pi can go beyond circles! What if you wrote using the digits of pi as your guide?

Word Ladder: Two to Six (6-steps)

Word Ladder: Two to Six (6-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder – Cold to Cool (5-Steps)

Word Ladder – Cold to Cool (5-Steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Fast to Race (4 step)

Word Ladder: Fast to Race (4 step)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

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?

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?

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?

Words Within Words: MENORAH

Words Within Words: MENORAH

How many words can you find within MENORAH?

Remixing A Holiday Poem

Remixing A Holiday Poem

Let’s take a classic Christmas poem and remix it to work with another holiday!

Advanced Alliteration and Consonance

Advanced Alliteration and Consonance

When students learn about alliteration, it’s hard to steer them away from goofy tongue-twisters. Certainly, there must be more powerful and practical ways of using alliteration. In this lesson, I draw on delicious examples from Shakespeare to show how a very advanced writer used alliteration. Then, I break those ideas down so students can try them out.

Bulls and Cows

Bulls and Cows

How quickly can you break the numeric code?