Reading: Family Literacy

Word Chain Game

 

Today's Snack: Thread Cheerios onto a long piece of string, tie it into a loop, and munch the cereal as you play this game. Drink a glass of milk to go with.

 

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Supplies:

Slips of scratch paper, about 1" x 6" | Markers

 

 

Here's a goofy game you can play as a family. It's a great rainy day activity. See how long of a paper chain you can make. Write a new word on each paper link, making each new word different by just one letter. Can you make a chain of 30 words? Fifty? One hundred?!?

 

When you are finished, you can hang this chain over your kitchen table or in your child's room. It will be a fun visual reminder of how words relate to one another.

 

It might be best to start with a simple, three-letter word. For example, this word chain's first few links are:

 

sip  -  lip  -  lit  -  bit  -  bat . . . you could follow with but and then bur and then bar and then par and then pat . . . and so on.

 

For older children, you can change the rules and allow words of any length, as long as they relate to the word before and repeat at least some of those letters in a new way. For example:

 

name  -  same  -  lame  -  blame  -  flame  -  fame  -  fume  -  fuse  -  use  -  us  -   bus  -  bust  -  rust . . . and so on.