Word Ladder
Cheese….
Fourth Grade Phonics
Unit 2 Week 2
On the bottom rung of your word ladder,
write the word:
cheese
Use the green letters from cheese and the
letter p to make a word for a wooly farm
animal.
cheese
You should have spelled….
sheep
Add two t’s to the green letters in sheep to
make a word for small whitish structures
in the mouth.
sheep
You should have spelled…
teeth
Change the double vowels in teeth to another
set of double vowels that make the singular
form of the word.
teeth
You should have spelled…
tooth
Add the letters f and s to the green letters in
tooth to make a word for the feet of some
animals.
tooth
You should have spelled…
hoofs
Change the first letter in hoofs and
make a word for the tops of houses.
You should have spelled…
roofs
Add the letters m and e to the green
letters in roofs to make a word for a
large deer-like animal.
roofs
You should have spelled…
moose
Use the green letters from moose and the
letters t, t, a to make a word for red or
yellow fruit eaten often as a vegetable.
moose
You should have spelled…
tomatoes
Add the letters l and v to the green
letters in tomatoes to make a word for
shaped masses of baked bread.
tomatoes
You should have spelled…
loaves
Change one letter in loaves and make a word
for things that fall off of trees in the fall.
loaves
You should have spelled…
leaves
Use the green letters from leaves and one
other letter to make a word for something
you sit on.
leaves
You should have spelled…
seat
Add 4 letters to the letters in seat and
scramble them in such a way as to make
a word for starchy tuberous foods.
seat
You should have spelled…
potatoes
You just went from
cheese to potatoes
in twelve words.