Making Words
Download Making Words for Clicker 5 (12 KB zip/clkx file, right-click then Save Target/Link As… to download)
This Clicker 5 grid set contains a series of grids for doing Making Words as developed by Patricia Cunningham and Dorothy Hall. The 10 warm up activities have been made up, but using Clicker Explorer you can also access the master grid so you can make more, gradually working your way through the whole book.
What is Making Words?
Making Words is an activity in which children are individually given some letters and use these letters to make words. During the activity, children make approximately 15 words, beginning with two-letter words and continuing on. Students usually love this – and for many students it is a great way to help them begin to spell novel words on their own without having the whole alphabet in front of them. It therefore scaffolds early spelling and gives many students a lot more confidence.
For more information see the Making Words book by Patricia Cunningham and Dorothy Hall or by going to www.spectronicsinoz.com/product/making-words/.
Requires: Clicker 5
Posted: 22 March 2010
By Jane Farrall