Making Words:

(a fun activity taken from Pat Cunningham’s Making Words)

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Take the word  -apples-.  Write each letter on a 2”x 2” piece of paper   

a  p  p  l  e  s

Put the cards in front of your child in random order.  Ask child to use the letters to spell:  Al, pal, lap, sap, ape, pea, sea, spa, slap, pals, apes, peas, lapse, apple. 

            Practice sounding out the words and look for blends and vowel sounds and you practice.  See if the child can come up with other words.

Other words to try:

-blanket- b, l, a, n, k, e, t

at, an, ban, tan, ant, eat, ate tea, ten, Ben, Ken, net , let, bet, beat, neat, leak, lake, bake, take, tank, bank, blank, bleak, table ankle, anklet, blanket.

-panther- p, a, n, t, h, e, r

an, at, hat, pat, pan, pen, pet, net, ate, eat, heat, neat, path, parent, panther.

-computer- c, o, m, p, u, t, e, r

up, to toe, top, mop, cop, cot, pot, rot, tore, more, core, come, comet, court, compute.

-sailboat- s, a, i, l, b, o, a, t

at, as, is, it, bit, sit, sat, bat, tab, lot, lots, lost, slot, slit, list, slat, salt, last, stab, slab, slob, blot, boat, boil, toil, soil, sail, tail, bail, bait, basal, blast, boast, boats, bloat, sailboat.