Word family tales take a trip to planet blip ip

Give a great holler, a cheer, a yell 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’

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To Julie Max Freiman, for her friendship and zip

Hi, Earthlings, my name is Zip.

Come visit me on Planet Blip.

We’ll zoom around in my spaceship.

You’ll see cool sights on our little trip!

We’ll drop by to visit my buddy Kip

We have a stellar friendship!

and have a moonball championship.

The loser buys ice cream—quadruple dip! (Just be careful not to drip!)

You’ll meet my pet He’s called a pip.

Instead of barking, he says, “Mip! Mip!” Instead of running, he likes to skip.

Mip!

Mip!

When we curl his hair, he looks really hip.

We’ll hike ’round a crater—

be careful, don’t slip!

We’ll jump in the middle to take a dip

then watch the comets whirl and whip.

Oh, please do visit Planet Blip.

You’ll love it here You’ll really flip!

W ord F amily R iddles

Listen to the riddle sentences Add the right letter

or letters to the -ip sound to finish each one

1 During summer vacation my family and I will go

on a _ ip

2 Don’t step on the banana peel or else you might

_ ip !

3 We eat our ice cream cones fast so that they

don’t _ ip

4 She held her hair back with a

hair _ ip

5 I poured a glass of milk and

took a big ip

-ip

On Halloween, I put a fake mustache above

my ip

My chocolate chip cookie only had one _ ip !

In gymnastics, I learned to do a back _ ip

My dad calls two scoops of ice cream a

double ip

Below your waist is your ip

Now make up some new riddle sentences using - ip

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Give a great holler, a cheer, a yell 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!

Make a list

of other –ip

words Then use them in the cheer!

C heer

-ip

-ip

Here are some quick and fun ways to use this

story to help children learn the word family -ip.

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

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 do 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”)

-ip

R eading T ips

Other words in the -ip family:

chip clip lip nip quip rip

ship snip unzip comic strip fingertip sportsmanship