Download activities are to be completed in your word study notebook

Please keep this form in your homework binder at all times. If it
gets lost, please let me know. I will post it on my teacher website
page.
Word Study Homework – All activities are to be completed in your
word study notebook (kept in word study pouch with word study
words). Write the date on each page. Use the next available page
(please use the back side of the pages).
**Please return your word study words and word study
notebook in the pouch every day. We use our words
in class each day.**
Monday – Read and sort your word study words. Record your sort
with headers in your notebook.
Tuesday – Choose an activity to do with your words.
Wednesday – Choose a different activity to do with your words.
Thursday – Review your word study words. Say, cover, write, and
check your words.
Activity 6
Keyboarding: Type your words on a list using a different font for each word (and color if
you’d like). Remember to use proper keyboarding technique!
Word Math: Choose ten spelling words and find out how much the spelling word is worth if:
A=1, B= 2, C=3 and so on.
TIC TAC TOE!: Draw a tic tac toe board in your journal. Play against mom or dad or any
other family member! Have your partner call out a word. If you spell it right, you get to place
an X or an O on the board. Then you give your partner a word. If they spell it right, they
place an X or an O on the board. Play until you have a winner!
Hangman: Play with mom, dad, or some other family member. Have them write lines for a
word. You guess the letters. If you miss a letter, you have to draw the head, neck, arms etc...
When you have a whole body you’ve lost. If you guess the letters before you’ve drawn the
body, you WIN!! Play several games.
Definitions: Write a definition for each word study word. If a word has more than one
definition, choose the first definition.
Different Hand: Write each of your words using the hand you normally don’t use to write.
Activity 7
Rainbow Write: Use different color crayons to write your words.
Activity 8
Creative Handwriting: Write each of your word study words in
writing, curly q’s or any other unusual form of handwriting.
Activity 9
ABC Order: Write or type your words in alphabetical order.
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 3
Activity 4
Activity 5
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Activity
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ZYX Order: Write or type your words in reverse alphabetical order.
Word Search: Make a word search on www.puzzlemaker.com Please solve your search. You
may ask a family member to help!
Word Scramble: Scramble each of your words making sure you use all of the letters. Then,
without looking at your actual word list, try to write each word correctly next to the
scrambled words.
Illustrations: Draw a simple illustration for ten of your words. Label the illustration with the
word.
Writing: Write a story, play or make a comic strip using at least ten of your spelling words.
Word Hunt: Find as many of your words as possible in a book you are currently reading. Then
copy the sentences that contain the words.
Activity
16
Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms: Record a synonym (a word that means the same thing),
and antonym (a word that means the opposite), or a homonym (a word that sounds the same
but means something different – ex. blue/blew, two/to/too).
Activity
17
Newsprint/Ransom words: Locate entire word study words or letters that you can use to
make word study words in newspapers and/or magazines. After making sure it is okay with
your parents, cut out the words or letters and paste them on a paper.
Activity
18
Syllables: Sort and write your words based on how many syllables each one has. Make
columns for 1, 2, 3, and 4 or more syllables, clap out the syllables, and record each word in
the correct column.