Engage with the Page

If you're new to Structured Word Inquiry (SWI), I can't recommend Fiona Hamilton's work highly enough! I love her Engage with the Page series, which ties a word study activity in with a beloved picture book.

I have a lot of training in SWI but still often find myself inspired by her simple and fun activity ideas.

Here are some of my favorite books and activities she has shared. Each book title below is a link to the lesson video and free downloadable PDF.

Have fun!!!

Introduction to SWI

Watercress by Andrea Wang

Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder (follow up activity - human)

Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds (another follow up option - monster)

Starting a Wonder Wall

The Wonder of Winsome by Kath Murdoch

The Wild Guide to Starting School by Laura Bunting (another version)

Introduction to Word Sums

This Plus That: Life's Little Equations by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Word Bag Game

We All Play by Julie Flett (play)

Dreamers by Yuyi Morales (tell)

Drawn Together by Minh Le (draw)

The Thankful Book by Todd Parr (thank)

All Kinds of Families by Sophy Henn (love)

Family Tree by Josh Pike (grow)

The Magical Yet by Angela DiTerlizzi (try)

A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin (eat)

Hummingbird by Nicola Davies (cycle)

Mrs. Wishy-Washy by Joy Cowley (jump)

What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins (do)

Funnybones by Janet & Allan Ahlberg (fright)

Leap Frog by Jane Clarke (leap)

The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires (sign)

Koala Lou by Mem Fox (sport)

Making Word Sums

The Word Collector by Peter Reynolds (collect)

Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne (spect, a bound base)

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (word family word find)

Stanley and the Wild Words by Mona Voelkel (norm)

In a Jar by Deborah Marcero (move)

Never, Not Ever! by Beatrice Alemagna (-ing)

The Artivist by Nikkolas Smith (act)

A Sweet New Year for Ren by Michelle Sterling (new)

You Matter by Christian Robinson (box the base)

Compound Words

A Walk in the Words by Hudson Talbott

Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

Plague by Jackie French (compound word + two suffixes)

Prefixes

Stack the Cats by Susie Ghahremani (un-)

Suffixes

Actual Size by Steve Jenkins (-er and -est, comparative and superlative)

Cannonball by Sacha Cotter (final consonant doubling)

Change Sings:  A Children's Anthem by Amanda Gorman (-ing)

Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin (another option for -ing)

The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen (-ling)

The World's Most Pointless Animals: Or are they? by Philip Bunting (-less)

The Good Egg by Jory John (another option for -less)

Spring Stinks by Ryan Higgins (like, replaceable e)

My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes by Eve Sutton (-s or -es)

Ambitious Girl by Meena Harris (-ous)

Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider by Jessica Lanan
(-er, agent suffix or comparative)

I'm From by Gary R. Gray Jr (-s, Venn diagram, nouns & verbs)

Digraphs & Trigraphs

The Little Refugee by Anh Do (ph)

Stuck by Oliver Jeffers (ck)

The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco (qu)

Look! by Fiona Woodcock (oo)

Stick and Stone by Beth Ferry (st, consonant cluster)

The Blur by Minh Lê (r-influenced vowel digraphs)

It's a Sign! by Jarrett Humphrey (igh)

Finding Evidence

Timeless by Kelly Canby (introduction to proving/disproving hypothesis)

The OK Book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal (-er agent suffix)

Aaron Slater, Illustrator by Andrea Beaty (-er, -or follow up activity)

Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around the World by Vashti Harrison
(another follow up option with two more agent suffixes, -ist, -ian)

Our Favorite Day of the Year by A. E. Ali (word web for friend)

How to Make a Bird by Meg McKinlay (-dom, -ure, -ion, -ness suffixes)

Kipper's Little Friends by Mick Inkpen (hypothesis/evidence graphic organizer)

Pigs Make Me Sneeze! by Mo Willems (is the suffix -s or -es)

Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets: A Muslim Book of Shapes by Hena Khan (do all < tri > words mean 3?)

365:  How to Count a Year by Miranda Paul (count)

Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall (plural cancelling e)

Jasper's Beanstalk by Nick Butterworth (grow family)

Phoneme/Grapheme Charts

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox (-ed suffix pronunciation)

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd (-s suffix pronunciation)

Beneath by Cori Doerrfeld (long < e > spellings)

This Is a School by John Schu (/k/ spellings)

Busting! by Aaron Blabey (/oo/ spellings)

Matrices

We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen (go)

Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel (matrix for friend)

The Eyebrows of Doom by Steve Smallman (kind)

Imagine by Alison Lester (howl)

Here We Are:  Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers (universe)

Luna Loves Dance by Joseph Coelho (dance)

How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham (heal)

The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch (smart)

The Lost Words:  A Spell Book by Robert Macfarlane (nate, a bound base)

Naturopolis by Deborah Frenkel (a more challenging option for nate)

The Oldest Student by Rita Lorraine Hubbard (stude, a bound base)

Salat in Secret by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow (cret, a bound base)

Happy All Over by Emma Quay (hap, a bound base)

How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers (star)

Collaboration Station by Shannon Olsen (labor)

Word Clips

Infographics: Human Body by Peter Grundy

Etymology

Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French & Bruce Whatley (strong vs. weak verbs)

Mog the Forgetful Cat by Judith Kerr (another option for strong verbs)

Ask Me by Bernard Waber (wh- question words)

Elmer by David McKee (color words in different languages)

The Light Within You by Namita Moolani Mehra (more than one < light > family)

International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name by Sandhya Parappukkaran