I really enjoyed the Making Words article by Cunningham and Cunningham. I found it to be a neat and interactive way to teach kids about making words and what really impressed me is it could be a short lesson (about 15 minutes) so it is something that many teachers could add to the vocabulary lesson every day!
I found this really neat folder- it is a Making Words folder that could be used as a center or in small groups. It had laminated letters Velcro-ed into the folder so it can be used over and over again! This particular Making Words folder can be found in a couple different places but here hare two Blogs that found pretty neat that talks about it (and gives brief directions on how to make it!) The first one is
First Grade Fresh-
http://firstgradefresh.blogspot.com/ and the other is
Teacher Bits and Bobs-
http://teacherbitsandbobs.blogspot.com/2011/03/making-words.html.
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I also found a bulletin board that is used for a Making Words lesson- it is really neat to see it laid out and I hope I can have one like this in my room- and it could easily be adapted to any grade level!
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After reading about this type of Making Words lesson I got to thinking about other ways students could make words that would be both fun and interactive! Here are a few of the ideas that I found!
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Here, you can use old plastic easter eggs and attached a beginning letter (v, m, b, c) and an ending sound (-an) and students can spin the egg to make different words- seeing that just by changing one letter they can make a variety of words (something the Making Words lesson in the article does!)
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Another example I found was using a bolt and some washers and writing different letters on each side of the washer and then students can spin each washer to make new words. This demonstrates that a handful of letters can make up a bunch of different words (something else the Making Words lesson in the article did)
Stephanie, you have some great examples of activities to do with words in the classroom! I really like egg activity, I haven't see that one before. I can't believe you found most of these images off of pinterest. I need to hop on the pinterest train!
ReplyDeleteThese are some great activities! A lot of these remind me of the activities we did in class last week, like the bananagrams and word family cut outs. I feel like these activities help diversified learners as well, making them accessible to all different kinds of learners!
ReplyDeleteI love the bolts! Stephanie what wonderful examples of various ways to incorporate everyday items into instruction and learning new words!
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