Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
Students will go from "FLY" to "BEE" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "WILD" to "TAME" by changing just one letter per step.
How many words can you find within LATKES?
How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?
How many words can you find within COBWEB?
How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?
How many words can you find within WREATH?
How many words can you find within "scarecrow"?
How many words can you find within "cranberry"?
Students will build words using the letters found in "STUFFING."
How many words can you find within "general"?
How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?
How many words can you find within WESTERN?
How many words can you find within TEACHER?
Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?
Students will move from D to ASIDE by adding one letter at each step.
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
How many words can you find within PARKING?
Let's go beyond merely memorizing word parts and instead analyze across languages. How do other languages make a word the opposite?
How many words can you find within TROMBONE?
Students will note the effects of adding a suffix to a word and then look for counter-examples to those patterns.
What exactly does adding -less do to a word?
How many words can you find within airplane?
How many words can you find within "leopard"?
How many words can you find within Saturn?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect T and PLANET?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Students will go from "East" to "West" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "Work" to "Hard" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "TWO" to "SIX" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "COLD" to "COOL" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "Fast" to "Race" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "ARM" to "LEG" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "KID" to "OLD" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "SKY" to "RED" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "Sun" to "Hot" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "TEA" to "HOT" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "Band" to "Sing" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "Foot" to "Shoe" by changing just one letter per step.
Students will go from "Fire" to "Warm" by changing just one letter per step.
You won't believe how this spelling and vocabulary puzzle will get kids' brains sweating over the smallest of words.
How many words can you find within MENORAH?
How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?