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Arizona ELA Standard: 3.WF.3

Know and apply spelling conventions and patterns.

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?

Words Within Words: PATRICK

Words Within Words: PATRICK

How many words can you find within Patrick?

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?

Aquamorphotron (Greek and Latin)

Aquamorphotron (Greek and Latin)

What on earth is a Aquamorphotron? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.

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?

Analyze Suffixes: -en

Analyze Suffixes: -en

What exactly does adding -en to a word do? Find the pattern. Then find the words that break it.

Words Within Words: AIRPLANE

Words Within Words: AIRPLANE

How many words can you find within airplane?

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: 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?

Word Ladder: Work to Hard (4 Steps)

Word Ladder: Work to Hard (4 Steps)

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

Word Ladder: Band to Sing (4 Steps)

Word Ladder: Band to Sing (4 Steps)

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

Word Ladders Introduction

Word Ladders Introduction

You won’t believe how this spelling and vocabulary puzzle will get kids’ brains sweating over the smallest of words.

Remixing A Holiday Poem

Remixing A Holiday Poem

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

Plurals: An Inductive Spelling Lesson

Plurals: An Inductive Spelling Lesson

Plural nouns in English are deliciously fascinating. Yet most plural lessons are so dull! In this experience, students are given a pile of plurals and then inductively create groups and pull out rules and patterns.

Ghost

Ghost

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