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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 13 of 14

Change a Letter

Swap one letter to make a new word, and spell short words.

What your child practices

Your child changes, adds or takes away one letter (it, pit, tip) to make new words and picks how short words are spelled.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.2(B); K.2(C) · making new words by changing a letter, and spelling short words

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Words are made of letters.
  2. Change one letter to make a new word.
  3. Say the new word: pig → big.

Example: Change the m in “map” to c. What word is it now? Take away m. Put in c. c-a-p: cap. Answer: cap

Change a Letter in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 13 of 14 in Kindergarten English Language Arts, after Ask and Find Out and before Story Friends.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Change the last letter of “cat” to n. What word is it?

    • man
    • can
    • cot
    • cap

  2. Question 2

    Which word is spelled m-a-p?

    • map
    • mop
    • nap
    • mat

  3. Question 3

    Change the s in “sun” to r. What word is it now?

    • bun
    • sit
    • ran
    • run

  4. Question 4

    Change the middle letter of “pit” to a. What word is it?

    • tap
    • pet
    • pot
    • pat

  5. Question 5

    Put s in front of “nap”. What word is it?

    • naps
    • snap
    • pans
    • span

  6. Question 6

    “ban” turned into “band”. Which letter was added?

    • n
    • d
    • b
    • t

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