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

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

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

4. You should have spelled…
score

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

6. You should have spelled…
more

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

8. You should have spelled…
mare

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

10. You should have spelled…
mire

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

12. You should have spelled…
admire

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

14. You should have spelled…
dime

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

16. You should have spelled…
time

17. 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

18. You should have spelled…
mitten

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

20. You should have spelled…
flatten

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

22. You should have spelled…
tale

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

24. You should have spelled…
ball

25. You just went from soccer to ball in twelve words.