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Virginia ELA Standard: 4.LU.2

Mechanics

Words Within Words: February

Words Within Words: February

How many words can you find within February?

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: CORNMAZE

Words Within Words: CORNMAZE

How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?

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?

Words Within Words: TEACHER

Words Within Words: TEACHER

How many words can you find within TEACHER?

Words Within Words: PARKING

Words Within Words: PARKING

How many words can you find within PARKING?

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: P to PLAINS

Word Pyramid: P to PLAINS

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

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 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: 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?

Jotto

Jotto

Who can guess the codeword first?

Words Within Words: MENORAH

Words Within Words: MENORAH

How many words can you find within MENORAH?

“Its Big Day” – A Children’s Story About Its and It’s

“Its Big Day” – A Children’s Story About Its and It’s

Let’s spice up a typically dull lesson about the difference between “its” and “it’s” by asking students to write a children’s story about the adventures of a critter named It.