Four Word Activities with Free Printables

Four word activities are explained. At the bottom of the post, you will find a handout link. The handout contains a printable for each activity for you to try each of these activities with your students. These word games will have your students thinking ‘out of the box’ in no time at all.

Get the handout for this post with all activities.

Activity #1

In this activity, students put words together to form new words. The trick is they must determine if the word they are adding goes at the beginning or the end of the word.

Let’s start with an easy example.

Add day to:

light —> daylight

every —>everyday

dooms —> doomsday

dreamers —> daydreamers

birth —> birthday

Here’s another example:

Add rot to:

ten  —> rotten

or  —> rotor

par  —> parrot

ate  —> rotate

car  —> carrot

Activity #2

An anagram is a word or phrase made by changing the order of the letters in another word or phrase.

Here are a few examples:

bread  —> bared, beard, debar

care  —> acre, race

tassel  —> slates, steals

Activity #3

A homograph is a word that is spelled like another word but is different in origin, meaning, or pronunciation.

Here are a few examples:

bow   —> part of a ship

bow   —> a weapon that shoots arrows

Have students make drawings of homographs.

Activity #4

A pun is a humorous way of using a word or phrase so that more than one meaning is suggested. Many jokes are puns. Write and illustrate a pun.

Handout

Click here to download the handout containing the word activities. I hope your students have fun with these.