Stages and
gradations
Emergent
Late
Early
Consonants
Beginning
Final
Letter Name
Middle
Late
Short
Vowels
Digraphs
Within Word Pattern
Early
Middle
Blends
Long
Vowels
Late
Early
Other
Vowels
Inflected
Endings
Syllables and Affixes
Middle
Late
Syllable
Junctures
Within Word Pattern
Word Play
 run off a handwriting version (cursive) of your spelling words, practice them
 type your sounds, words into our text-to-speech site and listen to the sounds
Matching Sounds to Pictures
Complex Consonant Clusters
Take A Card (complex sound alike and silent consonants –ch -tch)
Word Sorts
 Long Vowels
a) Long o, long u, and diphthongs
b) Diphthongs
c) sort the spelling word list
Syllable and Affixes
Word Play
 write the root word for each spelling word
 run off a handwriting version (cursive) of your spelling words, practice them
 type your sounds, words into our text-to-speech site and listen to the sounds
Word Sorts:
 Sort for sound of –ed
Unaccented
Final
Syllables
Derivational Relations
Early
Middle
Harder
Suffixes
Bases
or
Roots
 Plurals (s and es)
 Create a Venn diagram showing similarities and differences
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Search (using a spelling rules sheet, find words around the room that fit a rule) (spelling rules html)
soft & hard c and g
all three sounds of -ed (ed, t, d)
prefixes
suffixes
plurals without changes (e.g. dogs, lunches)
plurals with changes (e.g. bunny to bunnies)
doubling consonants prior to adding -ed or -ing
not doubling the consonant prior to adding -ed or -ing
Derivational Relations
Word Play
 write the root word for each spelling word
 run off a handwriting version (cursive) of your spelling words, practice them
 type your sounds, words into our text-to-speech site and listen to the sounds
Word Sorts:
 Sort by –ible and –able
Word Search: find words around the room that fit a rule
 Latin Roots & Vowel Alternation One
a) cumul – heap
b) glob – round or sphere
c) haugh – high or lofty
d) cis – cut
e) glut – sweet
f) mens – mind
g) habit – hold
h) hibern – wintry
i) fac – face
j) joc – joke
k) voc – speak, voice
l) qua – to seek
 Latin Roots & Vowel Alternation One
* search the Buzz Word List for Latin Roots
 Origins
o Check out the Buzz Word Archives for words with the same origin
o Create a time map showing the evolution of specific words
Other:
Word Collector
Bringing in Meaning
a) Content vocabulary: sort by theme, by spelling (explain the theme)
b) Sort the math words by concepts, identify any overlapping themes