Word LaddersThird Grade
Funniest - Joke
Unit 1 Week 3
Created by Kristi Waltke
On the bottom rung of your ladder spell…
funniest
Use the black letters in “funniest” to make a word for a something
used to catch things.
funniest
net
You should have spelled…
Change the beginning of “net” to make a word for receiving.
net
get
You should have spelled…
get
Add a suffix to “get” to make it happening right now.
getting
You should have spelled…
getting
Change the root word in “getting” to something a person does in water to get from place to place.
swimming
You should have spelled…
swimming
Take away four letters from “swimming” to make a word for what you do with your voice to accompany music.
sing
You should have spelled…
sing
Add one letter to “sing” to make a word for utilizing.
using
You should have spelled…
using
Add the letters “pply” to the word “using.” Then, scramble the letters to make a word for providing something.
supplying
You should have spelled…
supplying
Take away the green letters from “supplying” and add three letters to make a word for buying things.
shopping
You should have spelled…
shopping
Change “shopping” to the past tense of the word.
shopped
You should have spelled…
shopped
Use the black letters in “shopped” to make a word for the feeling that some desire will be fulfilled.
hope
You should have spelled…
hope
Change two letters in “hope” to make a word for a humorous remark intended to provoke laughter.
joke
You should have spelled…
You’ve just gone from
funniest to joke.
Way to go!