englishtips.org Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources To Julie Max Freiman, for her friendship and zip No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher For information regarding permission, write to Scholastic Inc., 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 SCHOLASTIC and WORD FAMILY TALES and associated designs are trademarks of Scholastic Inc Illustrated by Matt Phillips Produced by Brown Publishing Network ISBN: 0-439-26251-8 Copyright © 2002 by Scholastic Inc All rights reserved Printed in the U.S.A englishtips.org Hi, Earthlings, my name is Zip Come visit me on Planet Blip englishtips.org Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources We’ll zoom around in my spaceship englishtips.org Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources You’ll see cool sights on our little trip! englishtips.org Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources We have a stellar friendship! We’ll drop by to visit my buddy Kip englishtips.org and have a moonball championship englishtips.org Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources The loser buys ice cream—quadruple dip! (Just be careful not to drip!) englishtips.org You’ll meet my pet He’s called a pip englishtips.org Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Mip! Mip! Instead of barking, he says, “Mip! Mip!” Instead of running, he likes to skip englishtips.org When we curl his hair, he looks really hip englishtips.org Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources We’ll hike ’round a crater— be careful, don’t slip! englishtips.org 10 Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources We’ll jump in the middle to take a dip englishtips.org 11 Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources then watch the comets whirl and whip englishtips.org 12 Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Oh, please visit Planet Blip You’ll love it here You’ll really flip! englishtips.org 13 -ip Word Family Riddles Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Listen to the riddle sentences Add the right letter or letters to the -ip sound to finish each one During summer vacation my family and I will go on a _ip Don’t step on the banana peel or else you might _ip! We eat our ice cream cones fast so that they don’t _ip She held her hair back with a hair _ip I poured a glass of milk and took a big ip englishtips.org 14 On Halloween, I put a fake mustache above my ip My chocolate chip cookie only had one _ip! In gymnastics, I learned to a back _ip My dad calls two scoops of ice cream a double ip 10 Below your waist is your ip Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Now make up some new riddle sentences using - ip englishtips.org 15 Answers: trip, slip, drip, clip, sip, lip, chip, flip, dip, 10 hip -ip Cheer Give a great holler, a cheer, a yell Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources For all of the words that we can spell With an I and a P that make the sound –ip, You’ll find it in sip and hip and trip Two little letters, that’s all that we need To make a whole family of words to read! - ip englishtips.org 16 Make a list of other –ip words Then use them in the cheer! Reading Tips -ip Here are some quick and fun ways to use this story to help children learn the word family -ip Ask children to find the -ip word ending at the top of the front cover Review aloud with children the sound these two letters make together Can they find two words in the title with the -ip sound? Flip over the book and read the story summary on the back cover Ask children to point out the words they hear with the -ip sound Explain that the story you are about to read includes many more words that end in -ip Can they help you find them? Read aloud the story once for pleasure and enjoy the whimsical illustrations Then reread the book, emphasizing the -ip word ending in the appropriate words Ask children to listen closely and identify all the words that end in -ip (they might raise their hand or clap when they hear one, or you might choose a volunteer to point to the word on the page) As they so, make a list on chart paper of all the -ip words Write each of the words from your list on an unlined index card Use a different color for -ip than the rest of the word Read each word on the cards with children On another reading of the story, distribute the cards to children and have them hold up their card as their word is read Pages 14–15 of the book feature 10 riddles with answers that require a word ending in -ip Read each riddle aloud and have children volunteer answers Read aloud the cheer on page 16 several times, with lots of energy and enthusiasm Invite children to join you in reciting the cheer when they feel ready (you might even choose a “cheerleader”) englishtips.org Other words in the -ip family: chip clip lip nip quip rip ship snip unzip comic strip fingertip sportsmanship Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip (-ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Explain to children that you are going to read a story that has many words with the -ip sound, made by the letters I and P All these words belong to a group called a word family ... 10 Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip ( -ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources We’ll jump in the middle to take a dip englishtips.org 11 Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip. .. championship englishtips.org Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip ( -ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip ( -ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources... Planet Blip englishtips.org Word Family Tales: Take a Trip to Planet Blip ( -ip) © Scholastic Teaching Resources We’ll zoom around in my spaceship englishtips.org Word Family Tales: Take a Trip