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Arizona ELA Standard: 3.RF.3.d

Read grade-level appropriate irregularly spelled words.

Valentine’s Day Codes

Valentine’s Day Codes

Teach your students about basic cryptography and code making.

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?

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?

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: COBWEB

Words Within Words: COBWEB

How many words can you find within COBWEB?

Words Within Words: CRANBERRY

Words Within Words: CRANBERRY

How many words can you find within “cranberry”?

Words Within Words: GENERAL

Words Within Words: GENERAL

How many words can you find within “general”?

Words Within Words: Intro (SOLDIER)

Words Within Words: Intro (SOLDIER)

How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?

Words Within Words: WESTERN

Words Within Words: WESTERN

How many words can you find within WESTERN?

Word Pyramids

Word Pyramids

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

Words Within Words: TROMBONE

Words Within Words: TROMBONE

How many words can you find within TROMBONE?

Lipogram: Rewrite “Mary Had A Little Lamb”

Lipogram: Rewrite “Mary Had A Little Lamb”

What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?

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: 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?

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 – 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?

Word Ladder: Foot to Shoe (4 Steps)

Word Ladder: Foot to Shoe (4 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?

Jotto

Jotto

Who can guess the codeword first?

Ghost

Ghost

Ghost is a word-building game for two players. The first person to create an actual word loses.