Making Words Set Up


The Making Words activity is a great idea for classrooms--it makes sense for beginning readers/spellers of course but I also really liked the Making Big Words idea, particularly the few minutes of "free play" that the activity begins with it. It's a structured activity but it allows creativity and a feeling of independent achievement. I think connections kids make themselves are better remembered. With older kids, it might be fun to do another manipulatives activity but with root words, prefixes and suffixes, maybe in groups.