Word LadderWord Ladder

Soccer….Soccer….

Word LadderWord Ladder

Soccer….Soccer….

Fourth Grade PhonicsFourth Grade PhonicsUnit 1 Week 1Unit 1 Week 1

On the bottom rung of your word ladder, write the word:

soccer

Use the green letters from soccer and scramble them in such a way to make a word for making points in a game.

soccer

You should have spelled…

score

Use the green letters in score and add a letter to make a word that means greater in size.

score

You should have spelled…

more

Trade the black letter in more for another vowel that will make a word for a female horse.

more

You should have spelled…

mare

Trade the vowel in mare to make a word for mud or muck.

mare

You should have spelled…

mire

Add two letters to the beginning of mire to make a word for looking on with adoration.

mire

You should have spelled…

admire

Scramble the green letters from admire to make a word for a coin with Franklin Roosevelt’s picture.

admire

You should have spelled…

dime

Change the beginning consonant in dime to make a word for what a watch can tell you.

dime

You should have spelled…

time

Add the letter n and the letter t to the letters in time. Scramble them all up to make a word for an item worn on your hands in the cold.

time

You should have spelled…

mitten

Change the beginning of mitten to make a word for being crunched

down in size, like a pancake.

mitten

You should have spelled…

flatten

Use the green letters from flatten to make a word for a story.

flatten

You should have spelled…

tale

Change the first and last letter in tale to make a word for what you kick when you play soccer.

tale

You should have spelled…

ball

You just went from You just went from

soccersoccer to to ballball in twelve words. in twelve words.

You just went from You just went from

soccersoccer to to ballball in twelve words. in twelve words.