Meaningful word study packed with fun?! YES! With these games and independent activities for Beginning and Ending Complex Consonants, word study can be more engaging for our students in the Within Word Pattern stage! This bundle focuses on silent beginning consonants (kn, wr, and gn), w blends (tw, sw, and qu), triple blends (scr, str, spr, the, shr, spl, and squ), distinguishing between hard and soft g and c, words with final e (-ce, -ve, -se, and -ze), and words with final consonant patterns (-ge, -dge, -ch, and -tch).

The download for each sort includes a partner game and an independent game (that can also be modified to play with a partner). The partner games found in Unit 6 include “make a word” board games, a Match it Up! card game, and “Guess My Word” game. The independent activity for each sort in Unit 6 is “Layer On,” a fun word building game. It is my hope that these activities help you increase student engagement and personal teaching joy during word study, spelling, or word work. (Aligned to Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers Unit 6: Sorts 40-Sort 48)

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Whether you're looking for hands-on, engaging activities students can complete independently, partner games, centers, or ideas to spice up your small group lessons, these activities covering Beginning and Ending Complex Consonants have done the creative thinking and planning for you! Versatility and consistency (not an oxymoron!) are built right in for you with all of the activities in the Unit 6 bundle having the same format, you won’t have to teach students how to play with each new word sort!

While these games and activities are aligned to Words Their Way, they can be used to complement any word study program or focus with your students. See the preview for detailed lists of the included words!

Sort Sets Included in the Unit 6 Bundle:

40: Silent Beginning Consonants KN, WR, GN

41: “W” Blends

42: Triple R-Blends: SCR, STR, SPR

43: More Triple Blends: THR, SHR, SQU, SPL

44: Hard and Soft C and G

45: Final E: -CE, -VE, -ZE

46: Final E: -SE and -CE

47: -DGE, -GE

48: -TCH, -CH

★ Partner Games ★

In the Make a Word board games (sorts 40-43, 47-48), students draw word part cards and try to match them with the beginning or ending consonants on the game board in order to make a word.

✔ Teacher Directions

✔ Game Board

✔ Word Cards

✔ Student-Friendly Directions

✔ Recording Sheet

✔ Answer Key

In the “Match it Up!” card game (sort 44), students take turns asking their partner for a soft or hard c or g word or image depicting a word or drawing from a pile in order to try to make a match. Played much like “Go Fish!”

✔ Teacher Directions

✔ Hard and Soft C and G Playing Cards

✔ Student-Friendly Directions

✔ Recording Sheet

✔ Answer Key

In Guess My Word (sort 45 & 46), students choose a word from the word board, keeping it a secret from their opponent. Then students take turns asking questions about the vowel patterns and sounds associated with the word, trying to narrow down their opponent’s secret word to win the game.

✔ Teacher Directions

✔ 3 Guess My Word Boards (1 Make Your Own)

✔ Student-Friendly Directions

✔ Recording Sheet

✔ Answer Key

Each partner game involves friendly competition and a recording sheet that makes it easy to check that students understood the beginning/ending complex consonants being studied and to hold them accountable for staying on task.

★ Independent Activities ★

In Layer On (played much like a popular letter tile game), students spin a complex consonant and match it with a word part card to make a word. They add the word (by writing or building it) to an existing word tower. Students "layer on" as many words as possible to create a word tower with as many words as they can.

✔ Teacher Directions

✔ Word Building Mat

✔ Word Cards

✔ Spinner with Student Friendly Directions

✔ Letter Tiles for Building Words

✔ Recording Sheet

✔ Answer Key

* Everything comes in black and white and color versions!

Who are these games and activities for?

> > > These resources were developed with 3rd - 5th graders in mind, but could successfully be used in lower grades within small group lessons and with teacher guidance.

> > > These games and activities are designed for students in the late stages of Within Word Pattern. Students should have a firm grasp on long vowel sounds and patterns, including CVCe, CVVC, less common long vowel patterns, r-controlled vowels, and diphthongs and ambiguous vowels before they are developmentally ready to study how vowels affect consonants.

These activities provide a great way to add meaningful variety to your word study routine, keeping it fresh and interesting for students. With these activities, your word study block will be a time that students look forward to as they work to master these key spelling and word study concepts!

Word Study Notebooks:

★ BUNDLE of ALL WORD STUDY NOTEBOOKS (save 20%)

★ Within Word Pattern Spellers Word Study Notebook Activities

★ Syllables and Affixes Spellers Word Study Notebook Activities

★ Derivational Relations Spellers Word Study Notebook Activities

Word Study Word Searches:

★ BUNDLE of ALL WORD STUDY WORD SEARCHES (save 20%)

★ Letter Name Alphabetic Spellers Word Searches

★ Within Word Pattern Word Searches

★ Syllables and Affixes Spellers Word Searches

★ Derivational Relations Spellers Word Searches

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