WORD BUILDING

By: Ms. Osterhouse

What is Word Building?

Activities that support decoding and word recognition
Constant opportunities to experience effects on on a word

of changing one letter

Helps students develop this sense of how written English

works
Helps students develop details of many spelling patterns

Word Building Sequence

Categor
y
A
B
C

Contents
Individual consonants and short vowels a, I, and o
Short vowels ee and u
Consonant blends

Consonant digraphs

Long vowels of the ECEe pattern

Long vowels of the CVVC pattern (digraph)

R-Controlled vowels

Diphthongs

Examples
Short i; short a
b, i, t, d, r, p, s, a
Bit

Bid

Rid

Rip

Sip

Sit

Bat

Bit

Pit

Pat

Sat

Word Building
Fit and Sit are the same word, they have different first letters. Lets

see if you guys can change up words too.

Start with the word fit
Change the i to a

What word did you make? Fat

Change the f to s

What word did you make? Sat

Change the t to p

What word did you make? Sap

Change the a to i

What word did you make? Sip

Change the s to t

What word did you make? Tip

Change the t to s

What word did you make? Sap

Find unique CVCe long-a words

Example 1:
In the forest, there lived a snake and an ape.
The snakes name was Jake.
The apes name was Kate.

Example 2:
Janes frog got away!
Where did Wade end up?
He jumped in the fish tank.
What a way to have fun!

How many for the first example?

How many for the second example?

Find Unique CVCe long-a words and unique short-a

CVC or VC words

Example 3:
In the forest, there lived a snake, an ape, and a bat.
The snakes name was Mac.
The apes name was Pat.
The bats name was Dale.
How many long-a CVCe words?

How many short-a CVC or VC words?