Word Ladders Introduction

Part 1 of Word Ladders

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Objective

Students must turn their starting word into an ending word in a specified number of steps by changing only one letter per step in this spelling and vocabulary puzzle original invented by Lewis Carroll.

See the whole Word Ladders series here.

Steps

  1. Students will go from BOY to MAN.
  2. I give one possible solution and then present SAD to CRY.
  3. I give one possible solution and then open the door to future word ladders.

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