I Can Make New Words

This song is also available on Jack Hartmann's album Shake, Rattle n' Read.

Focus: Identifying and using word families

Activity – Follow the children on the song and then have your children figure out the words in the (ug) family. Placing words on a chart for a visual can help. Once they know the word family and the beginning sound they figure out lots of words!

Chorus:
I can make new words
Watch and see
I can make new words
Come on, join me
I can make new words
One, two, three
I can make a word family

Take a word like tan
T-an, t-an is tan
Change the “t” to a “c”
And you’ve got can
Good! Can
Change the “c” to a “f”
And you’ve got fan
All right! Fan
Change the “f” to a “r”
And you’ve got ran
Great! Ran

(Repeat Chorus)

Take a word like bug
B-ug, b-ug is bug
Change the “b” to a “h”
And you’ve got ___
Good! Hug
Change the “h” to a “m”
And you’ve go ___
All right! Mug
Change the “m” to a “j”
And you’ve got ___
Great! Jug

(Repeat Chorus)

 

OPEN VERSION:
Activity – Use any words you want and follow the same way as in the version above. There are lots of word families (i.e. ack, ap, et, ig, ing, un)

Chorus:
I can make new words
Watch and see
I can make new words
Come on, join me
I can make new words
One, two, three
I can make a word family

Take a word like __ _-__, _-__ is ___
Change the “_” to a “_”
And you’ve got ___
Good! ___
Change the “_” to a “_”
And you’ve got ___
All right! __
Change the “_" to a “_”
And you’ve got __Great! ___

(Repeat Chorus)

Take a word like __ _-__, _-__ is ___
Change the “_” to a “_”
And you’ve got ___
Good! ___
Change the “_” to a “_”
And you’ve got ___
All right! __
Change the “_" to a “_”
And you’ve got __Great! ___

(Repeat Chorus)

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