Find the Word That
Doesn't Belong
by Jerrilyn Jacobs, Taft
High School
Subject
Area: All
Grade
level: K-4; adaptable
for older grades using more advanced word
concepts and parts of speech.
Overview/Purpose:
MY HERO’s rich databank
of hero stories offers content for many
word games. The following is a suggestion
to get you started. Let us know of others
you use, so we can pass on the ideas.
Objectives:
Increase word skills
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Resources/Materials:
Enough computers with Internet
access to comfortably accommodate your class
OR class set of copies of a MY HERO story.
Teacher-generated handout
of word groups taken from the MY HERO story.
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Activities
and Procedures:
Step
One:
Teacher reads the MY HERO
story out loud, discussing it to assure
comprehension.
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Step
Two:
Teacher chooses four words
from a MY HERO story where three words have
something in common, and the fourth is different
(e.g., three words describe an object, one
word describes an action, or three words
are names and one word is not, etc.).
Teacher writes these words
on cards and scrambles them.
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Step
Three:
Students choose the card
with the word that doesn't belong with the
others, the word that is somehow different.
They explain their choice.
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Step
Four:
Teacher reinforces the correct
choice with a complete explanation of why
the word doesn't belong in the group. She
puts the mismatched word aside.
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Extension:
Take the mismatched words
and look at them as a group. Can anyone make
matches between two words, identifying something
the two words have in common?
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Created by Jerrilyn Jacobs, Curriculum Consultant
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