Word Spinners

Making Words with Contractions

To practice contractions, I wrote the base words on sentence strip and then folded them over and wrote the matching contraction.

Students then wrote the words they made on dry erase boards.

I think had students use the contraction cards to play a bingo game. They wrote the two words and I said the contraction. They had to erase the words until they didn't have any left.

 

Making Words with Plural Nouns

To practice plural nouns, I wrote the base words on sentence strip and then folded them over and wrote the plural endings.

Students then wrote the words they made on dry erase boards.

Using Word Spinners with Second Grade

I made these word spinners from Rolodexes to use with my second graders to practice the word endings -ed and -ing. Students had to write the ending over the base word. They could take the cards off to write on and then spin the Rolodex around to read the words.

Word Spinners with Rolodexes

I used these Rolodexes to make word spinners.

Each card had a plastic sleeve that makes it perfect for writing on with a dry erase marker!

I used these for students to add plural endings - ed and ing. I wrote the base words on the white card and put them into the sleeves. Then students could write the endings over the word.