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-an & -ad Word Activities

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After our -at and -an word activities (see former posts), ALuv and I moved onto comparing -an and -ad word families.  I decided to keep the -an family so I wasn’t moving on into all new territory with him.  We used the word and picture sort #7 from Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name -Alphabetic Spellers.  This was…
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Green with Literacy

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In honor of St. Patrick’s Day and upcoming Earth Day, I thought I’d share some ways we go “green” with literacy: Cereal box puzzles-not sure where I originally got this idea, but one place I saw it just recently was Chasing Cheerios. Make a book cover using cereal boxes.  Cut out the dimensions you want from the cereal box then cover…
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Goodnight Green

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Writing has always been one of those things I quite enjoy.  I can remember keeping a Writer’s Notebook long before they were ever used as a writing strategy in the classroom.  I still have one of mine,which contains snippets of stories and poetry I wrote years and years ago.  As a teacher I composed songs, poetry, or stories every once in a blue moon (it was very…
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More of -at and -an

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Here are a few more things we did with -at and -an: Made words with -at and -an chunks and beginning letters Played “I Spy” with phonemes (or individual sounds): After laying out all of his words on the floor, I would say, “I Spy /b/ /a/ /t/,” pausing about 1 second in between each letter sound.  He would blend…
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Fun with -an and -at

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iowa lottery One of the reasons I like Word Study so much is that it’s flexible.  In my opinion, it beats doing inflexible workbook pages any day.  Click here for some of the other reasons I like Word Study so much.  Here are some more activities we did with the –an and -at word families. Just a side note: Word…
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