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Homework help - yr3 literacy

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roisin · 19/04/2007 19:17

The word CONSTABLE has many other smaller words embedded within it.
e.g. con, stable, table, able, tab, ...

DS2 has to find other similar long words, but so far we haven't found anything with more than 4 words within it.

Please help!

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RTKangaMummy · 19/04/2007 19:18

CHRISTOPHER

RTKangaMummy · 19/04/2007 19:19

AEROPLANE

TELESCOPE

TELEVISION

TELEPHONE

compo · 19/04/2007 19:20

TELEVISION

compo · 19/04/2007 19:20

damn she bet me
UNBELIEVABLE

RTKangaMummy · 19/04/2007 19:21
Grin
compo · 19/04/2007 19:21

TELESCOPE
TELEPHONE
COMPUTER
ILLITERATE

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roisin · 19/04/2007 19:22

What's television got in it?
Understanding is quite good - we've managed 11 in that one - Ds2 is better at this than me

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RTKangaMummy · 19/04/2007 19:24

sieve

compo · 19/04/2007 19:24

Television

vision
set
vet
let
net
not
snot
slit
sieve
slot

RTKangaMummy · 19/04/2007 19:24

vision

RTKangaMummy · 19/04/2007 19:25

gymnasium

gymnastics

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roisin · 19/04/2007 19:25

Am I being a bit thick, or have you not understood what I'm on about?

You have to use the letters in the same order to create other words, i.e. from UNDERSTANDING you get
under
stand
understand
standing
tan
in
an
a
and
ding
din
Stan
.. and one other I can't remember just now!

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RTKangaMummy · 19/04/2007 19:25

mountain

compo · 19/04/2007 19:26

ooh sorry, I thought you meant how many words you can get from one word
My rofuse apologies to you and your ds!!

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roisin · 19/04/2007 19:26

Oh, OK. Yes I didn't explain it very well.
You (he ) has to use the letters in the same order.

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RTKangaMummy · 19/04/2007 19:26

ROSIN didn't get that

Marina · 19/04/2007 19:28

Information
In
for
Inform
Format
Mat

Concatenation
Con
Cat
Ten
Nation

Automatically
Auto
Mat
Tic
Call
Ally

compo · 19/04/2007 19:28

at least it wasn't just me
Okay....

antelope

ant
lope
an
lop

Marina · 19/04/2007 19:29

Ooh, if two letter words are allowed (Not Scrabble rules then ) mine will yield a few more

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roisin · 19/04/2007 19:32

apparently one and two-letter words are allowed, but proper nouns are not!

Information is very good - thanks Marina.

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coffeepot · 20/04/2007 14:15

REPRESENTATIVE
rep
represent
present
sent
resent
tat
at
ent (as in Tolkien?)
a, I (if one letter words allowed)

coffeepot · 20/04/2007 15:41

Probably way too late now but I can't resist this type of challenge -

UNREPRESENTATIVE
(better than representative!)

UNFORGETABLE
for
get
able
forget
table
tab
forge
or
forgetable

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roisin · 20/04/2007 16:33

not too late - thank you

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coffeepot · 20/04/2007 19:44

In that case:
MISREPRESENTATION
misrepresent
represent
present
sent
representation
presentation
sent
resent
rep
on
at
is

getting longer!

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roisin · 21/04/2007 10:08

Our record so far is 22 from misunderstandings

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