DLTK's Holiday Activities for Kids
Earth Day Word
Mining
Print out the template and make as many common words as you
can from the phrases provided. This is good spelling practice
for young children.
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Word Mining Tips
- Some people find it useful to rearrange the letters they have available
in alphabetical order or grouped by consonants and vowels before they
start mining.
For example, if your word mining phrase is "Happy
Birthday" you might find it useful to rearrange the letters:
- alphabetically:
a a b d h h i p p r t y y
OR
- by consonants/vowels: a a i y y
b d h h p p r t
- Talk to the children about using "rhymes" to help fill in more words.
For example, if you find the word Rat (using "Happy Birthday"
as our word mining example) encourage the children to replace the first
letter (R) in Rat with some of the other consonants available to come
up with Bat, Hat, Pat, THat
Word Mining Rules:
- Words that require a capital letter are not allowed (names like
David or Sally)
- Words that are pluralized simply by adding an "s" are not allowed
(cats, dogs, owls) though their singular is allowed (cat, dog, owl)
- Words that require punctuation are not allowed (ex: can't,
don't)
- To make word mining more challenging, you can also disallow 1, 2
and 3 letter words. However, if you're doing this with younger
children I recommend allowing them to form words with as many letters
as they like
Printing the Template:
- Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
- Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template
on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).
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