Activity: How Many Words Can You Make Out of the Letters in Education?

Hi friends,

     How are you today?  Do you have planned work to give the students who finish early or to give the class to do when you are not in the class?  There will always be times when you will not be there to guide the students or will be busy with other students.  So, it is good to have enrichment or review materials for students to do in every topic or skill you teach. 

     Sometimes, it takes time to gather enrichment and review materials for every topic and skill you teach.  However, it is easier when you have someone who will create these materials for you.  DUO Inspirations is such a resource.  If you need an enrichment activity or review materials in any particular topic or skill, please contact me.

     In the meantime, please, let me tell you about one of the activities that I enjoy.  It is something that almost any grade can do.  The activity is taking a word with quite a few letters in it or a short phrase and asking the students to make smaller words they can make out of the letters in that word or phrase.  It is better if you can use a vocabulary word or topic phrase that goes with the subject you teach.

     Creating words out of letters of a larger word or small phrase is an important skill.  It helps students to notice the letters in a word.  This helps in spelling as well as reading.

     Here is an example I did out of the letters in the word education.  There are other words.  However, I thought one hundred was a nice round number. 

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     If you notice, most of the words are smaller words.  That reinforces the fact that it can be done with success with most grade levels.  Also, as you can see many of the words have prefixes or suffixes.  So, this is makes a wonderful activity to review root words, prefixes, and suffixes. 

     I usually tell students that they cannot use slang, bad words, or proper nouns.  However, you can use whatever guidelines you wish.  I hope you and your students enjoy this activity.   

     Another good idea for doing an activity like this is asking students their strategy to finding words.  One of my strategies is to choose endings and look for any other words that have the same ending, such as ten and den or can and tan.

Now, it is your turn.
     Have you ever done this activity?  What are your guidelines?  Do you and your students enjoy it?
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