1. Wings for the King Word Ladder
Fifth Grade Phonics
Unit 3 Week 1

2. On the bottom rung of your word ladder, write the word:
tropical

3. Use the green letters from tropical and the letters and i and c to make a word for urgently needed.

4. You should have spelled…
critical

5. Use the green letters from critical and the letters e, r, and f to make a word that means very great or fantastic.
critical

6. You should have spelled…
terrific

7. Use the green letters from terrific and the letters l, l, u, s, a, and t to make a word for a visualization or drawing.
terrific

8. You should have spelled…
illustrate

9. Use the green letters from illustrate with the letters b and n to make a word for a brief report.

10. You should have spelled…
bulletin

11. Use the green letters bulletin to make a word for a long mark.

12. You should have spelled…
line

13. Use the green letters from line and add four letters to make a word for a substance that powers cars.
line

14. You should have spelled…
gasoline

15. Use the green letters to make a word for a transparent optical device.
gasoline

16. You should have spelled…
lens

17. Use the green letters from lens and the letters c, u, and s to make a word for procedure for acquiring and recording information about a population.
lens

18. You should have spelled…
census

19. Use the green letters from census along with the letters d and i to make a word for small cubes with six faces used in games and gambling.
census

20. You should have spelled…
dice

21. Use the green letters from dice along with the letters t and y to make a word for neat.

22. You should have spelled…
tidy

23. Add the letters h, u, m, and i to the letters in tidy to make a word for wetness in the atmosphere.

24. You should have spelled…
humidity

25. You just went from tropical to humidity in twelve words.