Words Within Words: February

How many words can you find within February?

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

How many words can you find within Patrick?

Words Within Words: IRELAND

How many words can you find within Ireland?

Words Within Words: ORNAMENT

How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?

Words Within Words: WREATH

How many words can you find within WREATH?

Words Within Words: SCARECROW

How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?

Words Within Words: CRANBERRY

How many words can you find within “cranberry”?

Words Within Words: Intro (SOLDIER)

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

Words Within Words: TEACHER

How many words can you find within TEACHER?

Words Within Words: PARKING

How many words can you find within PARKING?

Words Within Words: TROMBONE

How many words can you find within TROMBONE?

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

How many words can you find within airplane?

Words Within Words: SATURN

How many words can you find within Saturn?

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

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

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

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

Word Ladder: Arm to Leg (6-steps)

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

Word Ladder – Tea to Hot (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)

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

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

Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER

How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?