Making Words-UNFORTUNATELY

In my continued quest to model word study lessons, I've created an "UNFORTUNATELY" Mystery Word Activity. I thought it would be fun to read the book Fortunately that goes along afterwards.
I've created the lesson based on use of the SMART Board, but you could easily use index cards and a pocket chart to facilitate it.
The SB lesson (seen below), has students cut out the letters provided, move them around to create words, and then record their words on the blank sorting slip (one word per box). I provided 24 word boxes, but students could really use their journal and/or a whole page depending on how many words they come up with; the Scrabble dictionary listed 640 words that could be made with these letters!
The next step is to have the students sort the words they created in a variety of ways...they can paste these into their journals and then explain their sort. Here are all the things you will need for the lesson...use if you'd like!
~Erin

Click on the picture to purchase the book on Amazon.

Click on the picture to download the SMART Board UNFORTUNATELY activity.

Click here to download the Mystery Word letters.

Click on the picture to download the blank word boxes.

Click on the picture above to download the 640 words you can create with these 13 letters.