Byrdseed.TV has triple the membership of the national gifted association!

TEKS ELA Standard: 2.2.B.i

decoding words with short, long, or variant vowels, trigraphs, and blends

Valentine’s Day Codes
Valentine’s Day Codes
Teach your students about basic cryptography and code making.
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: Wild to Tame (5-steps)
Word Ladder: Wild to Tame (5-steps)
Students will go from “WILD” to “TAME” by changing just one letter per step.
Words Within Words: COBWEB
Words Within Words: COBWEB
How many words can you find within COBWEB?
Words Within Words: SCARECROW
Words Within Words: SCARECROW
How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?
Words Within Words: CRANBERRY
Words Within Words: CRANBERRY
How many words can you find within “cranberry”?
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!
Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)
Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)
Let’s encode and decode secret messages like Julius Caesar!
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?
Words Within Words: TEACHER
Words Within Words: TEACHER
How many words can you find within TEACHER?
Word Pyramid: U to Brush
Word Pyramid: U to Brush
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: AIRPLANE
Words Within Words: AIRPLANE
How many words can you find within airplane?
Words Within Words: LEOPARD
Words Within Words: LEOPARD
How many words can you find within “leopard”?
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: 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: Fast to Race (4 step)
Word Ladder: Fast to Race (4 step)
Students will go from “Fast” to “Race” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Sky to Red (5-steps)
Word Ladder: Sky to Red (5-steps)
Students will go from “SKY” to “RED” by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder – Sun to Hot (5-steps)
Word Ladder – Sun to Hot (5-steps)
Students will go from “Sun” to “Hot” by changing just one letter per step.
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?