Word Soup

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Word Soup or Witches Brew or Pilgrims stew
For k-3 includes sorts, reading practice,
developing sentence, writing skills, and most of
all FUN! By
Francine Roland and Yeuleta Bradley
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Word soup or Witches brew

• Supplies needed for this activity that can start
  out a Witches brew, change to pilgrim soup and
  continue the year as Word soup.
• Small candies like
• sweet-tarts that dont go rancid, or foam
  shapes
• Black pot- Halloween decoration
• Labels paper
• Word list
• Tape

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Lets get started

• You first need to make word lists using labels or
  paper and cut words apart.
• Two or three words will fit on each label if you
  want to be thrifty
• Use words that your students know or can sound
  out. We used number words, color words, short
  vowel words that we had introduced.
• Be sure you add plenty of I, he, she, can, the,
  see, in, to, is, on,and, etc for these are words
  that all students will need to be able to find
  easily.
• Tape or stick a label to each candy.
• You can use both sides of candy with different
  words this will give a variety of words using
  less candy. This is quite time consuming, but
  student can help in attaching words to candy.
• By having students that need more support help,
  they will have a head start of knowing some words
  in the brew.

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Tips on creating your brew

• Don t want to buy candy, use foam shapes located
  in the craft section of your local store. By
  designating a certain shape to nouns, verbs,
  adjectives, etc. Students who need more support
  will soon learn that by creating a pattern of
  shapes they can create a sentence.
• If you choose to use labels and have access to a
  color printer, you can color code your nouns,
  verbs, adjectives, etc...
• Using paper ? Designate a certain color paper
  for noun, verbs, adjectives, etc.
• A wild card candy would be fun for students to
  start adding their own words they can read and
  spell.

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Weekly layout of activities

• Day 1 sorts Use words to do several different
  sorts tall, short, sitting letters, short
  word/long words words I know /words I dont
  know open sort. Create 2 or 3 sentences as a
  large group and write on large paper
• Day 2 Read small books together. We used color
  books we created with the die-cut machine. Word
  sort, As a group create sentences using words
  from witches brew. Tape to large construction
  paper.
• Day 3 quick sort , then let students work in
  small groups of 2 or 3 to create a 1 or 2
  sentences together.

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Weekly activities continued

• Day 4 open sort, then have students create a
  sentence of their own. Recording and illustrate
  their sentence on a page to place in their
  personal readers or hang up on your show off
  bulletin board for all student to read.
• Day 5 Sing My Pets a cat
• rhyming sort see if students can find
  rhyming word matches. Have students try to
  create two sentences that rhyme with the words
  from their word sort and illustrate for their
  personal readers or create a class book of
  rhyming sentences.

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Day One

• Introduce the witches brew by doing a class sort
  of tall, short and dangling first letters. We
  used a folded piece of construction paper for
  sorting mats.
• Pair students up to do a letter sort together.
• If time permits do a short /long word sort or
  extend these activities over a longer period of
  time to foster mastery before moving on.
• As a large group make 2 or 3 sentences together
  with candies, tape candy to chart paper, write
  sentences below and practice reading them
  together several times.
• Other Sorts that could be used. Word families,
  long vowel/short vowel, ending sounds, color
  words/ number word depending on the reading level
  of students.

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Tall, short and dangling letter sort.
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Creating sentence tips

• With your pot of words, pencils, paper your ready
  to go. Give each student a hand full of
  candy-words.
• Have each student or a pair of students create
  or develop a sentence using their words.
• If they are unable to locate a word they may go
  back to the pot for seconds.
• Have them re-read the sentence or sentences to
  you to confirm they have made a sentence silly or
  not.
• After correcting the sentence they write it down
  and create a picture to match while they enjoy
  one or two pieces of candy.
• It takes several practice times for younger
  grades but they soon learn to create several
  sentences at a time.
• This becomes a favorite with them during their
  exploration time.
• This is a great filler for those faster workers
  and a low prep (after created) center activity

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Day Two

• Introduce small book with a simple sentence
  structure. We used small books we made with die
  cuts and the sentence pattern The dog is blue
  each book uses only one color word. Having 2 to 3
  different color books for each to read. We
  created 5 copies of 3 different color books.
• Pair up in groups of 2 or 3 to do Word sort-
  Words I know/ Words I dont know.
• Have student work together to make 2 or 3
  sentences together. Tape these sentence to a
  paper and display so you can review them later in
  the week and work on concept of word.

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Day Three

• Introduce a different sentence type. For example
  we used the same type of books we used on Day 2
  but the sentence structure is This is a red
  ball.
• Do an Individual word sort- Like words I know /
  Words I do not know
• Have students create a sentence from their word
  sort.
• Write and illustrate sentence for personal reader

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The crayons remind me to use finger spaces
between my words.
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Invite volunteers when working with
younger students. They will need extra support to
be successful the first few times.
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Day 4

• Introduce another sentence structure like a
  question. We used books that had the sentence
  structure of Is the rabbit blue? As the student
  read the books they needed to answer the
  question, yes or no.
• Word sort- your choice
• Have students try to create a question this time.
• Write, answer and illustrate question.

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Day 5

• Introduce the song My Pet is a cat.
• Word Sort- find rhyming words
• Use Rhyming words to create a two sentence rhyme
• Write and illustrate

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My Pets a cat

• My pets a cat.
• Whos very fat.
• My pets a cat.
• Who wears a hat.
• My pets a cat.
• Who caught a rat.
• Meow!

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A page from the color books we made.
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• Creating little books
• We glued die-cuts on 6x9 paper
• Used labels for sentences
• Laminated
• Stapled
• 10 different shapes per book
• Only one sentence structure
• per book
• Only one color to start
• Multi-colors can be used
• as students progress
• through the emergent stage.

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This is a fun activity that puts a spark of
excitement into working with word sorts and
creating sentences. We hope you have just as
much fun in your classrooms as we have in our
with this activity.