Find long a words and write down at
least 10 on your paper.
Find short a words and write down
at least 10 on your paper.
Example: words with ai, ay, a_e
play, mail, cake
Example: words like
man, map, ask
Find long e words and write down at
least 10 on your paper.
Example: words with ee, ea, e_e
sleep, eat, here
Find short e words and write down
at least 10 on your paper.
Example: words like pen, next, self
Find long o words and write down at
least 10 on your paper.
Find short o words and write down
at least 10 on your paper.
Example: words with oa, o_e, ow
float, joke, snow
Example: words like cost, clock, stop
Find long i words and write down at
least 10 on your paper.
Find short i words and write down
at least 10 on your paper.
Example: words with i_e, igh, ie, y
Kite, light, pie, fly
Example: words like kick, quit, will
Find long u words and write down at
least 10 on your paper.
Find short u words and write down
at least 10 on your paper.
Example: words u_e, ui, ue
Tune, fruit, blue
Example: words like jump, bug, drum
Find 10 color words and write them
on your paper.
Find 10 number words and write
them on your paper.
Example: blue, green
Example: one, three
A compound word is a word that is made up of
two smaller words.
Find 10 compound words and write
them on your paper.
Example: rainbow, snowman
A Contraction is formed by putting together two
words with certain letters left out. An apostrophe (‘)
is used in place of the missing letters.
Find 10 contractions and then print both words the
contraction represents beside the contraction.
Example: can’t - can not
it’s - it is
Rhyming words are words that sound the
same.
Homophones are words that sound the
same but are spelled differently.
Find 10 sets of rhyming words and print
them on your paper.
Find 10 sets of homophones and print
them on your paper.
Example:
cat, rat
float, goat
Example: sea, see
four, for
Plural nouns are words that mean more
than one.
Find 10 plural nouns (person, place, or
thing) and print them neatly on your paper.
Example: books, teachers, babies
Antonyms are words that have opposite
meanings of each other.
Find 10 antonyms and write them on your
paper.
Example: hot, cold
Synonyms are words that have similar
meanings.
Find 10 synonyms and print them on
your paper.
Example: pretty, beautiful
day, night
OR Words
Find 10 words with /or/ and print them
neatly on your paper.
Example: order, form, porch
AR Words
Find 10 words with /ar/ and print them
neatly on your paper.
Example: farmer, car, bark
IR Words
Find 10 words with /ir/ and print them
neatly on your paper.
Example: birch, bird, chirp
UR Words
ER Words
Find 10 words with /ur/ and print them
neatly on your paper.
Find 10 words with /er/ and print them
neatly on your paper.
Example: church, hurt
Example: farmer, teacher, computer
ing Words
ed Words
Find 10 words with /ing/ and print them
neatly on your paper.
Find 10 words with /ed/ and print them
neatly on your paper.
Example: landing, fishing, learning
Example: learned, walked, carried
Word Detective Card
est Words
Find 10 words with /est/ and print them
neatly on your paper.
Example: prettiest, strongest, biggest
ly Words
Find 10 words with /ly/ and print them
neatly on your paper.
Example: quietly, quickly, magically
ight Words
Find 10 words with /ight/ and print
them neatly on your paper.
Example: fire-fighter, light, bright
ch Words
Find 10 words with /ch/ and print them
neatly on your paper.
Example: change, porch, chip
th Words
Find 10 words with /th/ and print them
neatly on your paper.
Example: think, third, path
wh Words
Find 10 words with /wh/ and print them
neatly on your paper.
Example: whale, whole
Comparing Words
oi / oy
oo Words
Find as many words as you can with these
Find 10 words with /oo/ and print them
neatly on your paper.
patterns. Print them on your paper.
oi
oy
Example: took, balloon
wh Words
Find 10 words with /wh/ and print them
neatly on your paper.
Example: whale, whole
Comparing Words
ou / ow
/ou/ and /ow/ can make the same sound in
words. Find as many words as you can with
this sound and print them on your paper.
ou
ow