World of Words

World of Words

Explore the wonderful world of words this week with a activities, printables,and recipes that inspire a love of words and the magic they make. Play sightword Jenga, bake up a batch of words, and roll some word dice to discoverthe creative powers of words, and give your young reader the confidence to

master word wizardry!

Table of ContentsWeek 10: World of Words

Crazy Eights with Word Families!Sight Word Jenga

Sight Word Memory GameWordGirl's Library Word Scramble

Kindergarten Sight Word BingoGet Silly: A Word Game with MARTHA SPEAKS

First Grade Sigh Words BingoMake Word DiceAntonyms Game

Practice Reading with a Word HuntThree Legged Compound Word Race

Nonsense Words!Synonym Salad

Summer Reading EssentialsMore to Explore!

Explore the wonderful world of words this week with activities, printables, and recipes that inspire a love of words and the magic they make. Play sight word Jenga, bake up a batch of words, and roll some word dice to discover the creative powers of words, and give your young reader the confidence to master word wizardry!

Crazy Eights with Word Families!

Sight Word Jenga

Sight Word Memory Game

Rolling Words Dice Game

Bake Some Words!

WordGirl's Library Word Scramble

Kindergarten Sight Word Bingo

First Grade Sigh Words Bingo

Make Word Dice

Antonyms Game

Nonsense Words!

Synonym Salad

Thick paper cut into playing card-sized rectangles

Colored markers

Blank wooden rectangular blocks, available at toy stores or teacher supply stores

Permanent marker

Lists of sight words and vocabulary (Use our sight words list - included in this week's materials!)

Index cards (or construction paper cut into cards)

Four 1” to 1½” cube blocks or large dice

Large blank shipping labels or name tag labels

Writing paper

Pencils

Shoe box or plastic container to store the game

Cookie dough

1 cup flour

Cookie baking sheet

Rolling pin (or plastic cup)

Sprinkles (optional)

Lined paper

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Crazy Eights With Word Families!

Give your first grader's reading and writing skills a work out. Show her howto make and play this fun Hop on Pop-inspired Crazy Eights game thatintroduces her to some basic phonics. Brainstorm a group of words thatwill be challenging for her, and in just a few steps, translate this vocabularyinto a fun family game that celebrates Dr. Seuss.

What You Need:

Thick paper cut into playing card-sized rectangles4 different colors of markers

What You Do:

1. Just like the card game Crazy Eights, you'll make a set of cards thatcan be divided into four different categories, rather than suits. Pickfour word families that are challenging, but won't frustrate her. For example, -all (ball, mall, tall), -ee(bee, see, tree), -at (cat, bat, sat), and -ed (bed, fed, red).

2. Pick an equal number of words from each word family and write them out with one word per card.You'll mix up the colors within a word family because you don't want any one word family to be allthe same color. Use four different colors to write out the cards.

3. Have her make a few “wild” cards, “skip your turn” cards, and “reverse” cards to add somechallenging twists and turns to the game.

4. Now you'll deal out seven cards to each player. The rest of the cards should be stacked face-downin a neat stack in the center.

5. Flip one card over from the face-down stack in the center.6. You'll play the game just like Crazy Eights, trying to match either the color or word family that

appears on the face-up card in the middle. Therefore, if a red card bearing the word “cat” has beenflipped, you'll either have to lay down a red card or a card that represents the “-at” word family. Ifyou do not have a card to play, you must draw from the face-down stack until you find a card thatcan be played.

7. When any player gets down to just one card, they must say announce it to the other players bysaying, "Hop!". If not, the other players may point out this failure to warn, and the said player willnot be able to go out that round.

8. The winner of the game is the first player to run out of cards!

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Sight Word Jenga

Though they're used frequently in print, sight words can be confusing fornew readers because they don't often sound they way that they appear.But recognizing sight words is an important part of learning to readsuccessfully.

Looking for a fun way to expose your first-grader to more sight words?Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game to help yourchild's reading skills by creating wooden word blocks and playing SightWord Jenga!

What You Need:

Blank wooden rectangular blocks, available at toy stores or teachersupply storesPermanent markerLists of sight words and vocabulary (Use our kindergarten sight word list or our first grade sightword list)

What You Do:

1. Use the permanent marker to write one word on each of the blank blocks. Sight words (like "the","always", "anything", and "every") are great to use. You can use the sight word list above, or usewords and vocabulary from your child's spelling lists or favorite books.

2. Stack the blocks up into a tower.3. Players will take turns. On each turn, a player will pull out one wooden block from the tower. If the

tower does not fall, the player must then use the word written on the block in a sentence.4. The objective of the game is to pull out as many word blocks as possible without knocking the

tower over. The first person to make the tower fall loses that game.


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Sight Words Memory Game

Does your child love to play guessing games? Does she need help readingcommon words? Kill two birds with one stone, by making a family boardgame that’s so fun, she won’t even realize she’s learning!

What You Need:

word list (provided below) marker 80 index cards (or constructionpaper cut into cards)

What You Do:

Step 1:

Write 2 copies of each word from the following list on index cards, usingthe marker:

a and away big blue can come down

find for funny go help here I in

is it jump little look make me my

not one play red run said see the

three to two up we where yellow you

Step 2:

Have your child lay the index cards on a table in rows, in a face down position. You should have a totalof 80 cards. Once all the cards are laid out, it’s time to play! This game is played like Concentration, orMemory Match, only instead of matching Jacks or Queens, your child will be matching common words.(Which will help her read more smoothly!)

Step 3:

When it's their turn, each player turns over a card, and reads the word aloud. Then they flip over asecond card and read that one aloud. If the two words are the same, they’ve found a match! They canset aside their pair and go again. However, if the two cards are not a match, the player turns them facedown again, and the next player gets a turn. Repeat this process until all of the cards have beenmatched.

This memory game is a fantastic way for emerging readers to practice high frequency, or “sight” words.As their reading improves, feel free to add more challenging words to the deck. Until then, game on!


NOLA ___________________________________ Hint: This word means to let someone use something that they will give back.

OKOBS _________________________________ Hint: You can always find lots of these in a library!

ENEFERCER _________________________ Hint: This word means the place in the library where you can you find things like the dictionary, newspapers and other non-fiction resources.

VOCDISER ____________________________ Hint: This word means to find something new.

WESROB ______________________________ Hint: This word means to casually look around to see if you find something you like.

TIQUE _____________________________________ Hint: Shhh! This word means the opposite of loud!

IBLAINRAR ___________________________ Hint: This is the person that works at the library who can help you find just what you’re looking for.

RYRALIB DACR _____________________ Hint: Without this, you can’t take any books home from the library!

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Library Word ScrambleHelp WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face unscramble the library-themed words below

to make the world safe for reading and sharing books!

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1. Have a grown-up help you cut out the game pieces and call-out cards on pages 7 and 8. Be careful not to cut up the Bingo boards on pages 1 through 4. 2. When a word gets called and it matches the same word on one of the boards, the player can cover it with a game piece.

3. When a player covers a line of words from top to bottom, straight across or diagonally, he or she can yell out “Bingo” and wins!

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Get Silly!

Directions:

If you are already familiar with “I Packed My Grandmother’s Trunk,” this game is very similar. As you play, use new adjectives such as silly, bizarre, odd, strange, wacky, weird, unusual, etc…

1. To play the game, you could start by saying, “Yesterday I saw something really silly. I saw...a dog wearing pants.”

2. The next person will repeat your sentences and add another detail to the description. For example: “Yesterday I saw something really silly. I saw...a dog wearing pants and riding a bike.”

3. Continue around the circle until a player decides to end the chain by saying, “Wow! That's really silly!”

4. Start a new round using a different adjective. For example: “I had a very bizarre sandwich for lunch. It was...peanut butter and pickles.”

5. If you wish, you can add pictures to the “Get Silly!” game. Draw a starter picture of the first silly thing you name, then pass the paper and pencil to the next player who can add the new silly thing he names to the drawing.

Kids love to be silly, and playing this “add-one-more” game one-on-one with your family, or with a group of kids, is a good way to add new vocabulary words while having fun.

Extensions:

Think of some wacky songs you know

and sing them with your kids. Camp

songs are good, such as, “There Was

an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,”

“On Top of Spaghetti,” “The Princess

Pat,” and others. If they already know

the words, you could try substituting

new words into the songs like; “On top

of salami, all covered with mustard...”


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1. Have a grown-up help you cut out the game pieces and call out cards on pages 8 and 9. Be careful not cut up the Bingo boards on pages 1 through 4. 2. When a word gets called and it matches the same word on one of the boards, the player can cover it with a game piece.

3. When a player covers a line of words from top to bottom, across or diagonally, he or she can yell out “Bingo” and wins!


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Tip: When the child is done playing with these dice, they can be interchanged with other dice in the series “ Let’s make words ” to make new words.


�e blue die has phongrams/word family letters and the orange die has consonants. Ask your childto roll both the dice. �en ask him to sound out the letters from both dice and try to make a word.If it’s a real word, ask him to write it down on the list. If the word doesn’t make sense then it doesnot go on his list. If there are more players, then the one who has more real words in the end wins!Tip: Ask him to line up the dice. Orange �rst, then the blue one next to it to make the word.

Word List

How to Play

Word List


night

�nish

highleftlight

small

thinboy

slow

dirtycold

bad

dryclosed

out

sadfar

empty

hard

short

old

below

awake

bottom

wronglate

westnever

quietquestion

southeven

enemy

last

future

before

house

sand

toy

bird

table

Game Page Antonyms in the Sky

The object of this game is to help Drew the kangaroojump from board to board to reach the top.

To find the correct path, use the clues on the following page.

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Clue Page

Find the antonym of each of these words on the game page.

An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another word. For example, "up" and "down" are antonyms.

Antonyms in the Sky

1. �nish 2. low 3. right 4. day 5. dark 6. big 7. thick 8. girl 9. fast10. clean11. hot12. good13. wet14. open

24. top25. asleep26. early 27. correct28. east29. always30. �rst31. north32. odd33. friend34. after35. answer36. noisy37. start

15. in16. past17. happy18. near19. full20. easy21. long22. new23. above

Drew the kangaroo

Practice Reading with a Word Hunt

In first grade, there's a lot of new words your child will be learning torecognize. If you want to help try playing this fun search game to help herimprove her reading skills! Using two identical sets of word cards, yourchild will try to find the matching "lost" card that you've hidden somewherein the house. She'll get to play detective and practice reading at the sametime!

What You Need:

20 index cardsPenBasket or bag

What You Do:

1. On each of the 10 index cards, write a different word. Then make a second set of cards using thesame words. Words like "the," "was," "have," "all," and "some" are all great examples of wordsyou might want to put on the cards.

2. Have your child hide her eyes or go into another room while you place the cards from one setaround a room. Put them in easy-to-find places, like on the floor, on the coffee table, or on the armof the couch. If your child is an expert at finding things, feel free to make it a bit more difficult byhiding the cards in less obvious places, like sticking out of a book or half-hidden under a coffeecup--just be sure you don't forget where you hid them!

3. Hand the other set of cards to your child and ask her to read the word on the first card. If shestruggles, help her sound it out.

4. Tell her she is a detective and needs to find the matching word for the card. Maybe even create astory to make it more fun, such as a the two cards are friends but one got lost and it's up to yourchild to reunite the two.

5. The object is the game is to have her hunting for the match to each card. She might come acrossa card that doesn't match the one she's looking for, which means she'll have to recognize that itisn't the same word and keep searching.

6. When she finds the match to the first card, put the pair of words into the basket.7. Have her continue until all of the cards have been found and returned to their matching card.8. Once she can easily find the matches to the words, try a new variation of the game. Instead of

giving her a second set of cards, you read off the word that she needs to find and she hunts for thecard with the word on it.

9. Once she's mastered these words, make another set of words and keep on playing! She'll be agreat reader in no time.


Three Legged Compound Word Race

In second grade, kids work hard to "sound out" new words as they build uptheir reading vocabulary. Sometimes, it’s easy; other times, morechallenging…and if you’re new reader, having a few patterns up yoursleeve can really help things along. One very useful tool is understanding“compound words”—long words that are really made from two shorter,familiar ones, combined.

Here’s a goofy party or park game for a bunch of second grade kids whoare learning to read long words. Play it once, play it many times—it shouldstill be good for learning and laughs.

What You Need:

16 yellow 5" x 8" index cards16 blue 5" x 8" index cardsHole puncherString or yarnStretchy rag or tie for tying kids’ legs for the raceFlat, open space for a relay raceBunch of wiggly second graders (and any extra early reader friends hanging around)

What to Do:

1. Start by making word cards. Parents, you may be tempted to write these yourself. To help yourchild get the best learning benefits possible, however, sit him down with a thick black marker andhave him do the writing here. Use one card per word (but do note that some words are repeated--that's okay!): Blue cards are the opening segments of your compound words: jump, up, child,finger, any (make three), every (make three), hair, birth, some, pop, show, be. On the yellow cards,write: rope, side, hood, tip, body (make three), one (make two), cut, day, thing (make three), corn,case, and cause.

2. Punch a hole into each upper corner, and tie string through the holes to make a “sign necklace”that a kid can hang from his neck…and pull off quickly!

3. Divide kids into “three legged race” pairs. Tell them that they will be doing a relay race in whichthey must “carry” compound words to a basket across the field. When they run across the field,each partner will wear half of a compound word, so that together they make one compound word.

4. Place a bunch of other words in the basket at the end of the field. When the pair gets there, theymust quickly take off the compound word they’re wearing, and then cooperate to pick out a newone, put it on, and then get back to the starting line so the next pair can go.

5. Back at the starting line, read off the words that the players are carrying back. What do you see?Are they all real words? Teammates should be prepared to help out here, or else pairs may besent back to the basket!

6. The race ends when every three legged pair has gone across the field and back. If you have a fairlysmall group of kids, you can play this relay against the clock, and see if you can beat your time. Or,if there are lots of kids, this game works well with two teams. No matter what, plan to play a fewrounds. It’s great exercise, great teamwork…and above all, great practice enacting and readingthose crucial “compound” words.


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Jabberwocky

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shunThe frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand:Long time the manxome foe he sought--So rested he by the Tumtum tree,And stood a while in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and throughThe vorpal blade went snicker-snack!He left it dead, and with its headHe went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?Come to my arms, my beamish boy!Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.

Making Sense of NoN Sen sE

What’s fun about reading and writing poems is that you play with

words in unusual ways.

The poem to the right written by Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, contains lots of nonsense words but you still can understand what

happens in the poem, right?

There are words that Lewis Carroll made up in the

Jabberwocky.

Can you find them all? Underline the nonsense words.

Check your answers with the answer sheet!

Synonym Salad

A synonyms/anytonyms salad? Sounds silly! In this activity from PBS KIDS' WordGirl you will make a"salad" of words built on synonyms or antonyms. Click here to get started.


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Answer SheetsWorld of Words

Antonyms GameNonsense Words!


night

�nish

highleftlight

small

thinboy

slow

dirtycold

bad

dryclosed

out

sadfar

empty

hard

short

old

below

awake

bottom

wronglate

westnever

quietquestion

southeven

enemy

last

future

before

house

sand

toy

bird

table

Game Page Antonyms in the SkyThe object of this game is to help Drew the kangaroo

jump from board to board to reach the top.To find the correct path, use the clues on the following page.

start

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Making Sense of Nonsense

Jabberwocky

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shunThe frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand:Long time the manxome foe he sought--So rested he by the Tumtum tree,And stood a while in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and throughThe vorpal blade went snicker-snack!He left it dead, and with its headHe went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?Come to my arms, my beamish boy!Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.

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- Lewis Carroll

There are words that Lewis Carroll made up in the Jabberwocky.

Can you find them all? Underline the nonsense words.If you’re unsure look in a dictionary.

Answer Sheet

36(or 37 if “snicker-snack” is

counted as 2 words)

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