WordGirl continually saves the day with the help of her vocabulary and through her problem-solving skills. Here, students are asked to use their creative thinking powers to create a collection of portrait riddles that describe the main characters on WordGirl.

WordGirl not only knows words, she enjoys the many ways to play with words including using alliterations, the repeating consonant sound at the beginning of a word. Students will generate a list of alliterative words, and then write an original poem using those words.
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Familiarize your child with new vocabulary and the art of immediate, playful sentence building!

In this lesson, students will build with words they already know and then apply new vocabulary and create different kinds of sentences. In the voice or persona of Captain Huggy Face, students will write a diary entry on a day in his life and how he feels about it.

“WordGirl” is based on classic elements of the story form: a heroine who must overcome multiple obstacles to reach her final victory. Encourage your student storytellers to use character(s), setting, and plot to create and tell a story, based on visual clues.

Part of WordGirl’s success comes from her great sense of timing and her talent at spying! Become detectives and find images in magazines that match these word captions.

WordGirl can always identify the right word when she needs to, either by knowing it or by figuring it out in context. In this lesson, students will review new vocabulary through playing a variation on “Bingo.”

Some of the villains on WordGirl use words that sound like what they mean. This technique, called onomatopoeia, is often used by poets because it creates lively language. Students will be asked to create short skits that use onomatopoeia.

WordGirl’s extensive vocabulary helps her to get out of sticky situations; She often has a variety of words to solve difficult problems. Here students will increase their word banks by using
“Synonym Trees” and “Antonym Trees.”

This lesson focuses on verbs through a variation on the game “Charades.” Students will learn new vocabulary (verbs) by silently acting out the meaning of the words.