More Working With Words

This  section is devoted to paper/pencil activities for practicing and working with high frequency words. Due to recent requests, I will devote some time to this section.  After looking at the documents that were created three or four years ago, I decided that I wasn't happy with the look. So . . . if you're a return visitor, you'll notice that the new items have a completely different format. Please note that I've taken the liberty to mix up some of the early words in order to provide more interesting word work. Each packet will have some of the following activities for 12 words, depending upon the type of words:

    Configuration Station
          Looking at the shape of each word

     Cloze the Gap or What's Missing?
          Fill in the blanks (cloze) using contextual clues

     Sentence Sense (This works well as dictation.)
          Writing sentences that make sense

     Where are the Words?
           Word Search

     Rhyme Time
            Building new words with spelling patterns

     Clever Connector
            Synonyms or antonyms

     Suffix City
            Adding -s, -ed, -ing, or er and est

     Order in the Court
            Alphabetical order

     Contraction Action
            Matching word pairs to contractions

     Cross Words! 
            Crossword Puzzle

     Brainy Bonus
           Sort by phonics elements such as long or short vowel, vowel teams, diphthongs,
           blends, r-controlled vowels, etc.:  challenging!