This graphic organiser, ‘Alphabet Soup’ allows students to sort and classify words with the same word patterns.
This graphic organiser, ‘Blending the Blends’ asks students to combine two consonants to create a new sound that contains each of the blended letter sounds.
This graphic organiser, ‘Blending the Blends for The Sneetches’ asks students to identify the two consonants in a consonant blend and combine them to form the blended sound.
This graphic organiser, ‘Digging Out the Root’ asks students to analyse words in order to find the smaller, more familiar root words within them.
This graphic organiser, ‘Digging Out the Root for The Twistable Turnable Man’ asks students to analyse complex words from the poem, Twistable, Turnable Man from A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein, then identify the root word within each to help them decode the meaning.
This graphic organiser, ‘Rhyme Time’ asks students to apply their knowledge of phonemic awareness and spelling patterns by identifying, sorting and classifying words with similar word endings.
This graphic organiser, ‘Rhyme Time for This Is the House That Jack Built’ asks students to identify rhyming words in the book This Is the House That Jack Built by Simms Taback.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Tail End of a Word’ asks students to sort words into various categories based on their endings.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Tail End of a Word for -ible and -able’ helps students to learn the rule for adding -ible and -able word endings in order to sort the words into the correct categories.
This kids news activity, ‘Want To Be An Astronaut? A New Post Just Opened Up’ reports on the retirement of well-known Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
This graphic organiser, ‘We Are Family’ ask students to distinguish between words with the same ending sounds and words with different ending sounds.
This graphic organiser, ‘We Are Family for Dr Seuss’ asks students to find word families in the book Green Eggs and Ham and other books by Dr Seuss.
This graphic organiser, ‘Word Parts’ asks students to identify and generate words that are related by word parts.
This graphic organiser, ‘Word Parts for A Wrinkle in Time’ allows students to recognise patterns in words through the study of origins and derivations in A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle.