Words with friends...

Irene Fountas and G.S. Pinnell are the leading ladies of Reading instruction. They are the gurus behind well rounded literacy programs.

One of the activities that came from them is something called Working with Words. You give the students a strip of letters that they cut out and place on their desks, give them a clue or two, and have them spell out a word.

It's a fun way to practice spelling and phonics.

From there you can look for word patterns or use those words as springboads to other words.
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​  M is spelling out a word.

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​                                                   What is that word?

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​    AARRRRGH, the agony! What is the word?

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At the end, there is a challenge to use all the letters in one word.

​Yay! I got it!