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Indiana ELA Standard: 2.RF.3

Decode multisyllabic words composed of base, prefixes, and suffixes; read contractions, possessives (e.g., kitten’s, sisters’), and compound words. (E)

Words Within Words: February
Words Within Words: February
How many words can you find within February?
Words Within Words: Chocolate
Words Within Words: Chocolate
How many words can you find within Chocolate?
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: IRELAND
Words Within Words: IRELAND
How many words can you find within Ireland?
Words Within Words: LATKES
Words Within Words: LATKES
How many words can you find within LATKES?
Words Within Words: COBWEB
Words Within Words: COBWEB
How many words can you find within COBWEB?
Hydromagnaphone (Greek and Latin)
Hydromagnaphone (Greek and Latin)
What on earth is a Hydromagnaphone? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.
Geosynth (Greek and Latin)
Geosynth (Greek and Latin)
What on earth is a Geosynth? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.
Pyrostasis (Greek and Latin)
Pyrostasis (Greek and Latin)
What on earth is a Pyrostasis? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.
Greekymon Studies – Round 1
Greekymon Studies – Round 1
What might a creature named “Ursolunascope” be like?
Words Within Words: ORNAMENT
Words Within Words: ORNAMENT
How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?
Words Within Words: CRANBERRY
Words Within Words: CRANBERRY
How many words can you find within “cranberry”?
Words Within Words: STUFFING
Words Within Words: STUFFING
How many words are hiding inside STUFFING? More than you think.
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.
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!
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 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?
Prefixes and Suffixes in Other Languages
Prefixes and Suffixes in Other Languages
Let’s go beyond merely memorizing word parts and instead analyze across languages. How do other languages make a word the opposite?
Words Within Words: TROMBONE
Words Within Words: TROMBONE
How many words can you find within TROMBONE?
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.
Analyze Suffixes: -ly, -less, and -ful
Analyze Suffixes: -ly, -less, and -ful
What exactly does adding -less do to a word?
Words Within Words: AIRPLANE
Words Within Words: AIRPLANE
How many words can you find within airplane?
Words Within Words: SATURN
Words Within Words: SATURN
How many words can you find within Saturn?
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?
Greek and Latin Word Part Paths
Greek and Latin Word Part Paths
How can we go from Biology to Immobile?
Word Ladder: East to West (4 Steps)
Word Ladder: East to West (4 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?
Words Within Words: MENORAH
Words Within Words: MENORAH
How many words can you find within MENORAH?
Ghost
Ghost
Ghost is a word-building game for two players. The first person to create an actual word loses.
Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER
Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER
How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?
Greekymon
Greekymon
Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.