Change one letter on every rung to make a new word
Print a word ladder for a child who is learning to sound out short words. On every rung one letter changes and a new word appears: sat, sit, pit, pin. Pick a ready chain made from checked words, or type your own.
Your worksheet:
Each rung says which letter to change and what the new letter is: “Change the first letter to p”. There is only one word it can be, so your child can check the work alone.
Changing one letter makes a child look at every letter in the word and not guess from the first one. It is the same skill as reading, done slowly.
Every word in the ready chains is a short word in which each letter says its usual sound. The first two chains use only the letters s, a, t, p, i, n, m and d.
A list of words in which each word is made from the one before it by changing one letter, such as cat, hat, hot, hop.
Yes. Choose “Type your own chain” and type the words in order. The page checks that exactly one letter changes each time, and stops the ladder where that is not so.
Yes. Turn on “Answer key page”.
From the top down, the way a page is read. The first word is given.
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