Word Detectives

For Reading Workshop we have been working to earn our Word Detective badges. We got a letter from the Super Secret Detective Agency asking for our help to do some top secret word detective missions.
We had lots of missions!  Here are some of them:

We used magnifying glasses to look closely at words...

We also used whiteboards to do slow checks on tricky words. We found this mission to be one of the most effective when we got to tricky parts!  Look at some of the tricky words these word detectives in training were able to solve:

We used word scanners to pay attention to beginnings and endings of words...

Here is the anchor chart where we kept track of all our missions:

 Here are the supplies that helped us to earn our official Word Detective badges:

We were so proud!