Word LaddersFirst Grade

Eat - Food

Unit 5 Week 3

Created by Kristi Waltke

On the bottom rung of your ladder spell…

eat

Add a letter to eat to make a word that can mean you out did someone

else.

eat

beat

You should have spelled…

Change the ending of beat to make a word for a bird’s mouth.

beat

beak

You should have spelled…

beak

Change the vowels in beak to make a word for something that you love to read.

book

You should have spelled…

book

Change the last letter in book to make a word for a type of shoe that a cowboy might wear.

boot

You should have spelled…

boot

Change the first letter in boot to make a word for stolen treasure, plunder.

loot

You should have spelled…

loot

Now change the first letter in loot to make a word for a body part you find below your ankle.

foot

You should have spelled…

foot

Replace the last letter in foot to make a word for a person who has been unwise.

fool

You should have spelled…

fool

Change the last letter in fool to make a word for things that we eat.

food

You should have spelled…

You’ve just gone from eat

to food in nine words.

Way to go!