Word Construction Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: L.4.3b

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The English language is amazing! Rearranging a single letter in a word will often result in a new word forming that has a completely different meaning. If you play games on your mobile phone you will be very familiar with the activity on these worksheets. You will given a selection of letters in many cases and be asked to form as many different words as possible. Students will find this fun and also learn the interrelationship of words with these sheets. Students always have a blast with these word construction worksheets. You can often make them into a class game.

Word Construction Worksheets:

Letter Logic – Use the letters below to form as many words as you can in five minutes.

Word Wizard – Use the letters below to form as many words as you can in five minutes. You may only use each letter in the list once for each word you form.

Lego Word – See if you can rodeo this one up?

Jumble It – I would suggest a timed event here.

Word Minutes – I definitely prefer to work off of the vowels.

Beat the Clock – Use the letters to form as many words as you can in five minutes. You may only use each letter in the list once for each word you form.

Word Blocks – Some of the most common Wheel of Fortune letters here.

Kick It – The letter "Y" really starts to make things interesting here.

Tear It Up – Let's eat the way we want to and spell the way we want to as well.

How Many Words Can You Make? – I would give extra credit for words that include the letter "W".

Almost Dreams – You will need to do some heavy dreaming here.

Say It – We just need 12 words to finish this up.

Prince – Make sure all phones are away, because they have an app for this.

Loads O Words – Five minutes is a ton of time to get this done.

Pencil Partner – You can start right off with a word by how they are ordered from the start here.

What is Word Building?


The English language is an extremely flexible language. There are no hard and fast rules that should be strictly followed when it comes to words. There is a huge scope of word-building in the English language. Word building is the process of using and combining different words to form new ones. The new words have their own unique meanings. Anyone can form these words with the help of specific instructions. Here are some ways with which word building can be done by anyone.


Nouns


You can add the following endings to nouns to make new words.


–er /- or: someone who does something specific

for example,
lawyer, advisor

–ian

for example,
physician

–ment: a consequence of something

for example,
advancement

–ism: a name for belief or system

for example,
Judaism, onanism

–ist: refers to a person who has a strong belief in something

for example,
optimist, pessimist

–ion

for example,
apparition

–ness

for example,
sadness, happiness

–ship

for example,
membership, leadership

–ence / ance

for example,
appearance, trance

–acy

for example,
supremacy, lunacy

–age

for example,
marriage


Prefixes


The prefix is a type of affix. It has a predefined meaning. A prefix can be added to the starting of a word to form a new word. The new word will have a meaning that combines the meaning of the prefix and other word. Here are some common prefixes and their meanings that you can use to form a new word.


anti means against

for example,
anti-social

auto means self
for examples,
autonomous, automobile

bi means two
for example,
bicycle

contra means against

for example,
contravene

dis means not

for example,
disappear

il means not

for example,
illegal

inter means between

for example,
international

multi means many

for example,
multinational

over means too much

for example,
overwork

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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