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Weaving Words on a Cardboard Loom

Read a how-to about weaving on a cardboard loom and use root words like tight, soft and weave to figure out new words.

Grade 2ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.2.4.c

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer

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What students practice

Students find the root word inside words like tighten, evenly and softness.
Students use a known root word to figure out the meaning of a new word.
Students choose the word with the right root to complete a sentence.

How to use

Read the how-to aloud and, if you can, show a real cardboard loom. Have students find the root word in each new word before they answer the meaning questions.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.2.4.c

Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root, such as addition and additional.

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Weaving Words on a Cardboard Loom

Use root words like tight, soft and weave to figure out new words.

Read the how-to

How to Weave on a Cardboard Loom

1A loom is a frame that holds strings while you weave. You can make a small loom from stiff cardboard and some soft yarn. Then you can be a weaver, too!

2Step 1: Ask a grown-up to help you cut small notches across the top and bottom of the cardboard. Space the notches evenly, about one finger apart.

3Step 2: Wrap yarn up and down the cardboard, slipping it into each notch. If the strings feel floppy, tighten them. If the cardboard starts to bend, loosen them a little.

4Step 3: Tie a new piece of yarn to the first string. Weave it over one string and under the next, all the way across. Then come back the other way.

5Step 4: After each row, push the yarn down gently with your fingers. This keeps the rows close together.

6Step 5: When you are done, tie off the ends and lift the yarn loops off the notches. Feel the softness of the little rug you made!

Root words in the how-to

A root word is a word you already know. An ending added to it makes a new word with a meaning close to the root word.

Some words look a little like weave but do not have the root word weave. Circle the three words that have the root word weave.

waveweavingweaverleaveswearweaves

Paragraph 1 says, "Then you can be a weaver, too!" Use the root word weave. What is a weaver?

A. a frame that holds the strings
B. a piece of soft, thick yarn
C. a person who weaves
D. a row of yarn on a loom

Each word below is in the how-to. Write the root word you can find inside it.

evenly:
tighten:
softness:

Use the root word in each word from the how-to. Match each word to its meaning.

tighten
loosen
evenly
softness

A. in an even way
B. how soft something is
C. to make loose
D. to make tight

Step 4 (paragraph 5) says to push the yarn down gently. The root word gentle means soft and kind. How should you push the yarn?

A. fast and very hard
B. in a soft, kind way
C. only at the very end
D. as far as it can go

Try new words

Use the root word as a clue to the meaning of each new word.

Use the root words to choose the word that fits each sentence. Write it on the line. One word will not be used.

Word bank: darken · tighten · soften · loosen · brighten

1. This stick of modeling clay is cold and stiff. Roll it in your warm hands to it.
2. The art room is too dim for drawing. Open the blinds to the room.
3. The lid on the glue jar is stuck. Ask a grown-up to help you it.
4. The knob on the easel is loose, and the paper keeps sliding down. Turn the knob to it.