Word Building...Using Big Words!

I'm very lucky to work with a plethora of phenomenal women and a man or two!  Earlier this year one of the women on my grade-level used our latest test results to split our students up into tiered groups for our tutoring time...formerly RTI...now MTSS, I think...they sure love switching up those acronyms on us every couple years and I can't figure out if I have a hard time keeping up or I just don't really care about all those shenanigans enough to keep up :).  Getting back to what does matter...students were grouped according to their needs as identified by the test and I got the opportunity to work with the word building group.  I checked Making Words out of our professional library and started putting together word building activities and then created a worksheet as a special activity for Groundhogs Day.  My tutoring students enjoyed it so much that I introduced it to my class.  It was a hit with them as well so I developed a little unit of word building worksheet for every holiday that I could think of that occurs during the school year.

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Using big words to build smaller ones is not only a fun activity but this book taught me to extend on that by listing the words we build and then separating them into groups like words that begin with 's' or have 'th'.  These skills are meaningful for children in grades K-3 and beyond!  I just posted the Word Building: School Holidays packet on TpT!  Please stop by and check it out!

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Sometimes I like to test things out before I invest so I wanted to provide you with a Back to School freebie to try out with your students!

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I hope you find this activity useful in your classrooms, I saw a big improvement in my word building group after doing many similar activities with them last year and I'll definitely be using this with my incoming kiddo's starting this August!