Grade 1 or 2 ELA words ending in letters lf that change to plural ending of letters lves

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Early Childhood Education blog! I want to share a quick post this afternoon for an ELA activity sheet that I've made this past week. It's really crazy how a person's creativity gets sparked from reading words from someone else! What's more amazing is that I actually followed up on that spark to create this activity sheet that leads off with 1 elf and 2 elves!

I just kept picturing having columns with the numbers and word endings changing! I've got a few ideas for altering and providing more practice so hopefully time will open up in the next couple of days to make those into extra activities. Our English language has many different rules and exceptions to rules, so teachers at the primary level need to help children make sense of spelling and grammar rules through a variety of word work activities.

Elves, Calves, Shelves, Wolves, and Selves:

For student use I print everything in black and white, so this would appear differently to them. And since I was using clipart images, locating a single shelf image was very difficult and felt best using the mirror with an attached shelf photo for the singular. Then a 3-shelf bookcase clipart image is used for the plural.

I hope this inspires you to create something similar for your students!

With a passion for helping little ones,
Becca S

Illinois certification endorsements:
Birth to Grade 3
FACS grades 6-12

and approval:
General Science grades 5-8

DAP Kindergarten word search activity with words ending in -eg and -og

What makes this activity developmentally appropriate practice?

Reason #1: word list is kept to 8 words

Reason #2: words are kept to 3 letters using CVC pattern

Reason #3: words are kept in traditional English language reading format of horizontal or left to right

Once kindergarteners have been introduced to CVC pattern for making words, they should be able to sound out and read the words in the list and be able to find all 8 words without confusion or frustration. 

To make it more challenging, more words can be added to list and/or have more than 1 word on each line. Then after that level  of difficulty has had successful completions, word search puzzles can be created that introduce words going vertical or that include a third group with a new word ending.

Note: I've created these with color coding for the 2 endings and printed them with the color instructions in their hue, so when copying or printing with just black or grayscale, you will need to use a colored pencil or crayon to key the students' papers.

Kindergarten Word Search Activity by Rebecca Morris Sadler

When you find a word, color it in puzzle green if it ends in -eg and orange if it ends in -og. Words to find are:

• peg
• leg
• beg
• Meg (meg)
• fog
• jog
• dog
• hog

Words will only be found in horizontal order.

h	o	g	z	p	s
w	q	p	e	g	i
y	t	c	d	o	g
l	e	g	k	r	v
s	h	v	j	o	g
q	b	e	g	m	r
u	x	f	o	g	a
a	y	c	v	t	z
b	m	e	g	l	n

Kindergarten word search with -eg and -og words 2017 by Rebecca Morris Sadler