Is your little prince or princess trying to talk a lot? Then you must be searching for some ways to enhance their fluency with a compact English vocabulary, right?
As parents, we all plan to give our kids the proper guidance and opportunity to learn some new words and help them to be the master of a sound vocabulary. The most effective way to learn some new words is to explore them, know their actual meaning, play with them, etc.
However, if you are trying to determine how to do this; then, there is no need to think a lot, as we are here to help you in this procedure of helping your children. Let us show your kids some interesting four-letter words that start with the letter S.
So…here…we go…
List Of 4 Letter Words Starting With S
Sale | the exchange of commodity for money |
Save | keep safe or rescue |
Sake | for the purpose of |
Sane | a person of sound mind |
Same | identical, not different |
Sail | a piece of material extended on a mast to catch wind to propel a boat |
Saga | a long story of heroic achievement |
Sage | an aromatic plant used as culinary herb |
Scan | look at all parts of something carefully |
Scar | a mark left on the skin |
Scam | a dishonest scheme |
Self | a person’s essential being that distinguishes them from others |
Seek | attempt to find something |
Seat | a thing made for sitting on |
Seen | past participle of see |
Seep | a leak or flow of liquid through porous material |
Send | to be taken to a particular destination |
Sent | past and past participle of send |
Shop | a building where good are sold |
Ship | a large boat for transporting goods and people by sea |
Shot | the firing of a gun |
Shoe | a covering for the foot , with a sturdy sole |
Silk | a soft, strong, fine, lustrous fiber produced by silkworms |
Site | an area where a building or town is constructed |
Sift | put through a sieve to remove lumps |
Sign | a gesture used to convey information |
Slim | a person who is gracefully thin |
Soil | the upper layer of earth in which plants grow |
Soup | a liquid dish, made by boiling vegetables, meat, or fish in water |
Some | an unspecified amount |
Soft | something not hard |
Spit | easy to mold, compress, cut, or fold/ not hard eject saliva forcefully from one’s mouth |
Spot | a small roundish mark/ a certain place |
It will be a memorable journey to study some acronyms that start with the letter S, isn’t it? Children sometimes come face to face with a lot of acronyms that may attract their interest.
So, let’s discuss some of them.
List Of 4 Letter Acronyms That Start With S
SABR | Society for American Baseball Research |
SADL | Situation Awareness Data Link |
SAGE | Semi-Automatic Ground Environment |
SALT | Save A Life Today |
SAIC | Science Applications International Corporation |
SARP | Search And Rescue Processor |
SARS | Severe Acute Rescue Respiratory |
SART | Situational Awareness Rating Technique |
SASE | Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope |
SASO | Stability and Support Operations |
SBCS | Single-Byte Character Set |
SCAP | Supreme Commander Allied Powers |
SCNT | Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer |
SCSI | Small Computer System Interface |
SDSS | Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
SEAL | Sea-Air-Land |
SETI | Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence |
SFOB | Special Forces Operations Base |
SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
SHRA | Rain Showers |
SHSN | Snow Showers |
SIDS | Sudden Instant Death Syndrome |
SIMM | Single In-line Memory Module |
SIPP | Self-Invested Personal Pension |
SLBM | Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile |
SLOC | Source Lines Of Code |
SMDR | Station Message Detail Recording |
SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
SOHC | Single-OverHead-Cam engine |
SPCO | Single-Pole Change Over |
SRAM | Static Random Access Memory |
STSM | Senior Technical Staff Member |
SUNY | State University of New York |
Activities With 4 Letter Words Starting With S
You may try to a great extent to teach many useful new words to your kids. However, your little partner may not be able to remember those words if they do not get the right time to use the words in an interesting way!
Now, it is not so easy for them to read some books…or to jot down some new words with their correct meanings!! Hence, eventually, they will lose interest in studies!
So, the most effective method is to offer support and encourage those curious little souls to be engaged in some activities that will help them to remain focused and explore new things.
Thus, here are some of those helpful word activities that will motivate your little students to both learn and use some new four-letter words in the correct way.
1. Word Puzzles
You can play this game with your little companions. Actually, there are multiple types of enticing word puzzles that will always make your kids happy.
One of the simplest examples to enjoy this is to use scrabble tiles and instruct those little souls to take their time in unscrambling them. While playing this puzzle, your little kids can know about and even remember some new four-letters words.
You can draw all of the English letters on the ground at first, and then say out loud a word, like a scar. Your little partners will first have to recognize and then stand on each letter of the word scar to complete this word puzzle game.
The opposite way may be another quite fun method to teach your kids. Your child will have to stand on the four letters of a word and then you will have to say the word created by your game partner.
2. Name Game
Another remarkable and amazing activity is name games. You can easily strengthen the vocabulary of your little partners by playing this game with them.
When you are trying to teach those adorable souls some new four-letter words that start with S, it will be quite a great experience to play this encouraging game. In this, you will need to ask a question and your baby will have to answer that.
You can play this word activity in turns as well, for instance, in the first step, you will be the questioner and your little one will answer your questions and then in the next step, do just the opposite.
This will inspire your little game partners to be more interested in exploring some new words while having great fun.
Examples:
Q: What is a piece of material extended on a mast to catch wind to propel a boat?
Ans: Sail
Q: What do we call a building where goods or services are sold?
Ans: Shop
Q: What is a thing made for sitting on?
Ans: Seat
Q: What do we call a large boat for transporting goods and people by sea?
Ans: Ship
Q: What do we call the act of exchanging commodities for money?
Ans: Sale
Q: What is the soft, strong, fine, lustrous fiber produced by silkworms?
Ans: Silk
3. Fill In The Blanks
Another simple and highly amusing way to teach your little children some common four-letter words with S is to conduct fill-in-the-blanks activity.
With this, those little things will be able to learn a lot of new words that will be of great help in the future.
Examples:
S_LK
SE_K
SHO_
S_OE
SE_P
SH_P
4. Word Matching Game
This is another interesting way through which you can teach your kids. For this, you will need some interesting Flash Cards. In reality, to enjoy this, you will require two sets of those cards.
One set will contain fun pictures and the other will come with the four-letter words starting with S. You may use some words, such as sale, shop, silk, ship, seek, seat, site, sign, etc., and get the flashcards that have these words.
Then, just show your little companion how to read the flashcards and also the way to match them with the respective words.
Also, you may show your little game partner how to perform the matching and next, ask them to follow you in the next step.
Conclusion
Hope all these fun word games will help you in your struggle of providing some interesting knowledge to your little kids. Also, stay with us always for some other encouraging ideas.
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