In this e-book you will find 40 reproducible Pirate word ladders. These word ladders are a great way for students to analyze words and will help students with decoding as well as spelling.

Using Word Ladders
Students will start at the bottom of the word ladder and use the directions and clues to create new words as they move to the top of each word ladder.

Example
The word ladder starts with the word Jack. The directions tell you to change the first letter and the clue is, “Put your homework in your back______.” The word that you need to make is pack.

You can download a sample pirate word ladder below,  and if you like it you might want to consider getting all 40 of them for only $3.50.  You can get these worksheets now on the new websites shop. 

I've just finished a new e-book called Word Investigation.  This book is full of graphic organizers that you can use to analysis morphemes in words.  Doing this activity will help your students to recognize patterns in words, which in turn will help them to build their vocabularies, become better spellers and decode big words. 

These graphic organizers are based on the idea of Morphemic Triangles by Rod Winters.  To learn more about them I suggest you read the article he wrote for the Reading Teacher.

Winters, R.. (2009). Interactive Frames for Vocabulary Growth and Word Consciousness. The Reading Teacher, 62(8), 685-690. 

The free giveaway is over, but you can purchase these graphic organizers buy clicking the buy now button below.  You can also find many other great ideas for teaching vocabulary by visiting my Vocabulary Activities page.

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_2 player version – Students  will each have one side of the game board to play on.  They will need to take turns choosing bones if the word on the bone matches one of their dog bowls they will place their bone down.  If it doesn't the will still read the word but place it back in the pile. 

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Have your students practice the short i and e sounds with this fun file folder game.  The game has students sort CVC words into the correct area.  Words that have a "short i" sound go on the "pig."  Words that have a "short e" sound go on the "pen."  After you're done you have an easy place to store all of the pigs when you put them into the pocket.  You can download your free file by clicking the link below.  This file folder game will also be available on the Free Stuff page.  You can download this game and see all of the other available freebies on that page.