Fourth Grade Phonics Unit 1 Week 1 Word Ladder Soccer…. Fourth Grade Phonics Unit 1 Week 1

On the bottom rung of your word ladder, write the word: soccer

Use the green letters from soccer and scramble them in such a way to make a word for making points in a game. soccer

You should have spelled… score

Use the green letters in score and add a letter to make a word that means greater in size.

You should have spelled… more

Trade the black letter in more for another vowel that will make a word for a female horse.

You should have spelled… mare

Trade the vowel in mare to make a word for mud or muck.

You should have spelled… mire

Add two letters to the beginning of mire to make a word for looking on with adoration.

You should have spelled… admire

Scramble the green letters from admire to make a word for a coin with Franklin Roosevelt’s picture.

You should have spelled… dime

Change the beginning consonant in dime to make a word for what a watch can tell you.

You should have spelled… time

Add the letter n and the letter t to the letters in time Add the letter n and the letter t to the letters in time. Scramble them all up to make a word for an item worn on your hands in the cold. time

You should have spelled… mitten

Change the beginning of mitten to make a word for being crunched down in size, like a pancake. mitten

You should have spelled… flatten

Use the green letters from flatten to make a word for a story.

You should have spelled… tale

Change the first and last letter in tale to make a word for what you kick when you play soccer.

You should have spelled… ball

You just went from soccer to ball in twelve words.