Word detective cards

Example: words with ee, ea, e_e sleep, eat, here

Example: words like pen, next, self

Find short e words and write down at least 10 on your paper.

Example: words like man, map, ask

Example: words with ai, ay, a_e play, mail, cake

Find long e words and write down at least 10 on your paper.

Find short a words and write down at least 10 on your paper.

Find long a words and write down at least 10 on your paper.

Find short o words and write down at least 10 on your paper.

Example: words like cost, clock, stop

Find short i words and write down at least 10 on your paper.

Example: words like kick, quit, will

Find long o words and write down at least 10 on your paper.

Example: words with oa, o_e, ow float, joke, snow

Find long i words and write down at least 10 on your paper.

Example: words with i_e, igh, ie, y Kite, light, pie, fly

Example: words like jump, bug, drum

Find 10 number words and write them on your paper.

Example: one, three

Find 10 color words and write them on your paper.

Example: blue, green

Find short u words and write down at least 10 on your paper.

Example: words u_e, ui, ue Tune, fruit, blue

Find long u words and write down at least 10 on your paper.

Example:

cat, rat float, goat

Find 10 sets of rhyming words and print them on your paper.

Rhyming words are words that sound the same.

Example: rainbow, snowman

Find 10 compound words and write them on your paper.

A compound word is a word that is made up of two smaller words.

Example: sea, see

four, for

Find 10 sets of homophones and print them on your paper.

Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently.

Example: can’t - can not it’s - it is

Find 10 contractions and then print both words the contraction represents beside the contraction.

A Contraction is formed by putting together two words with certain letters left out. An apostrophe (‘) is used in place of the missing letters.

Example: pretty, beautiful

Find 10 synonyms and print them on your paper.

Synonyms are words that have similar meanings.

Find 10 plural nouns (person, place, or thing) and print them neatly on your paper.

Example: books, teachers, babies

Plural nouns are words that mean more than one.

day, night

Example: order, form, porch

Find 10 words with /or/ and print them neatly on your paper.

OR Words

Example: hot, cold

Find 10 antonyms and write them on your paper.

Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings of each other.

ER Words Find 10 words with /er/ and print them neatly on your paper.

Example: farmer, teacher, computer

Find 10 words with /ur/ and print them neatly on your paper.

Example: church, hurt

Example: birch, bird, chirp

Find 10 words with /ir/ and print them neatly on your paper.

IR Words

UR Words

Example: farmer, car, bark

Find 10 words with /ar/ and print them neatly on your paper.

AR Words

Example: prettiest, strongest, biggest

Find 10 words with /est/ and print them neatly on your paper.

est Words

Example: learned, walked, carried

Example: landing, fishing, learning

Example: quietly, quickly, magically

Find 10 words with /ly/ and print them neatly on your paper.

ly Words

Find 10 words with /ed/ and print them neatly on your paper.

Find 10 words with /ing/ and print them neatly on your paper.

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ed Words

ing Words

Example: change, porch, chip

Find 10 words with /ch/ and print them neatly on your paper.

ch Words

Example: fire-fighter, light, bright

Find 10 words with /ight/ and print them neatly on your paper.

ight Words

Example: whale, whole

Find 10 words with /wh/ and print them neatly on your paper.

wh Words

Example: think, third, path

Find 10 words with /th/ and print them neatly on your paper.

th Words

oy

Example: whale, whole

Find 10 words with /wh/ and print them neatly on your paper.

wh Words

oi

patterns. Print them on your paper.

Find as many words as you can with these

Comparing Words oi / oy

ou

ow

this sound and print them on your paper.

/ou/ and /ow/ can make the same sound in words. Find as many words as you can with

Comparing Words ou / ow

Example: took, balloon

Find 10 words with /oo/ and print them neatly on your paper.

oo Words