Called a “ladder” because each new word is built on the previous one, students begin with a single word paired with a meaningful clue.
Word ladders or chains are game-like activities, in which students use a series of meaningful clues to manipulate the letters in a word to make new words.
Word Ladders, created by Tim Rasinski (Rasinki, 2005) in his Daily Word Ladders resources, are a variation and example of word building activities. These types of activities help students to work with letter-sounds and analyze word part relationships. In word building, students are given a limited set of letter cards and are asked to create a series of words in a specific sequence that generally vary by only one or two letters. Teachers can determine the sorting focus in advance and might consider expanding and deepening student thinking by encouraging students to make up their own criteria as they develop more sophisticated understanding, giving students opportunities to use their phonics knowledge and creativity to discern patterns among the words.ĭownload a printable Word Sort-Short u Activity and invite students in grades 1–3 to sort words by related sounds and spellings using the short u vowel sound. In these activities, students examine words, seek out common spelling patterns, talk about what they are learning, and begin to identify larger “chunks” in the words, which is an important skill as students transition to studying multisyllabic words (Blevins, 2017, 2011, 2006, 2001). In word sorts, students are given word cards and asked to sort them by related sounds or spellings.
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