Do you want to strengthen your children with a compact vocabulary? Are your adorable, little friends talking all day? Don’t you think that the time has arrived when you should start introducing your little companions to the beautiful world of several meaningful words?
If yes, then we are here to help you in this memorable journey through which you can successfully improve the English vocabulary of your little friends.
So, let us take the very first as well as really vital step to teach your children some useful words, along with their meaning while playing. Here, we will show them some useful four-letter words.
Here we go with….ER.
List of 4 Letter Words With ER
ered | to originate / to come from |
ergo | therefore |
erhu | a Chinese two-stringed musical instrument that is played with a bow |
Erie | a member of indigenous people residing south of Lake Erie in the 17th century |
Eris | the Greek goddess of discord |
Ersa | the goddess of dew and daughter of Zeus |
Eruv | an area, circumscribed by a symbolic line, within which activities forbidden to Orthodox Jews on the Sabbath are permitted |
Eres | a noun, meaning wonderful |
Eric | a noun meaning forever ruler |
Erin | a noun / literary name for Ireland |
erme | to grieve or feel sad |
erke | slothful |
erne | the sea eagle |
eros | physical love |
errs | be incorrect or be mistaken/ to make a mistake/fail to adhere to the proper standards |
Erna | a noun meaning earnest or capable/ A feminine name with Old German and Old Norse roots |
eras | a long and distinct period of history |
erst | long ago/ formerly |
over | extending directly upwards from/ at a higher level/ complete or finished |
ever | at any time/ always |
user | a person who uses or operates something |
beer | an alcoholic drink made from yeast-fermented malt flavored with hops |
pier | a structure extending into navigable water for use as a landing place or to protect or form a harbor |
peer | one that is of equal standing with another/ look with difficulty or concentration at something or someone |
tier | each in a series of levels or rows of a structure place one above other |
deer | a hoofed grazing animal with branched bony antlers |
veer | change direction suddenly |
doer | the person who does something |
bier | a movable frame on which a coffin is placed before burial or cremation |
jeer | make rude and mocking remarks, mainly in a loud voice |
aver | state or assert to be the case |
lier | a con artist/ deceiver |
dyer | a person whose trade is the dyeing of cloth or other material |
tyer | a person or device that ties |
suer | the person in a legal proceeding who makes a charge of wrongdoing against another |
ruer | kick out |
aper | a person who adopts the appearance of another especially in an obvious way |
It will always be an unforgettable journey to explore some four-letter abbreviations that have ER in them.
In fact, sometimes your little companions may ask you about several commonly used four-word acronyms. So, let’s go through some of them below.
List of 4 letter acronyms with ER
EROS | Earth Resources Observation System |
ERTS | Earth Resources Technology Satellite |
ERNS | Emergency Response Notification System |
ERFS | Entrants, Returnees Follow-up System |
ERVs | Endogenous retroviruses |
ERTS | Emergency Response and Training Solutions |
HOER | Hours of Work and Period of Rest |
Activities With 4 Letter Words With ER
Sometimes, you may think that it is necessary to teach your little children several useful new words that may strengthen their vocabulary, right? However, all of your long-term efforts may turn out to be a big zero if your adorable friends do not know how or where to use them.
Now, it is not so easy to force those curious beings to read some new books or tell them to jot down several new words with ER and their usages. This may reduce their interest in studying new things and the curiosity to use them in the right places.
So, to avoid this problem, one of the most useful things you may do is to engage them in some attractive game-like activities that will help them be focused as well as to encourage them to study more.
So, let us discuss some helpful yet simple games that will guide and encourage your tiny tots to use some of the newly learned four-letter words in the correct way.
1. Name Game
Naming something is one of the most incredible as well as simplest things through which you can strengthen the vocabulary of your little partners.
When you are looking for some easy ideas to teach some useful and commonly-used four-letter words to your tiny tots, it will be a perfect and easy way to teach those words through an enticing name game. In this, you must say something, and your kid has to give the right answer.
Also, you may enjoy this game in turn. You can do it like this; first, you will ask something to your kid and your little child will give the answer and after that, the opposite way. With this game, your tiny tots can explore some new four-letter words, with ER, without even feeling bored.
Examples:
Q: What will you call a Chinese two-stringed musical instrument that is played with a bow?
Ans: Erhu
Q: Who is the goddess of dew and daughter of Zeus?
Ans: Ersa
Q: What will you call a structure extending into navigable water for use as a landing place or to protect or form a harbor?
Ans: Pier
Q: What is the literary name for Ireland?
Ans: Erin
Q: What will you call an alcoholic drink made from yeast-fermented malt flavored with hops?
Ans: Beer
Q: What is a hoofed grazing animal with branched bony antlers?
Ans: Deer
2. Fill In The Blanks Activity
Another very amusing and incredibly easy activity is widely famous as fill-in-the-blanks. Through this learning method, you may show your tiny tots some useful four-letter words that have ER.
Through this game, your cute companions will not only be able to know about some new words without any difficulty but also to use them perfectly. Moreover, this kind of easy-to-enjoy word-game will be of immense help for their future studies.
Examples:
DE_R
B_ER
P_ER
U_ER
JEE_
3. Word Matching Game
Word Matching Game is another inviting learning method through which you can teach your tiny companions something beneficial. You will have to get only two sets of Flash Cards to play the game.
One set of those cards will come with several interesting pictures and the other set will have the new 4 letter words with ER. After this, you just have to make use of some commonly-used four-letter words like jeer, veer, pier, deer, tier, over, user, etc., and get those cards that contain these words.
Then, just tell your tiny companions how to read those flashcards and also the way to match them with the respective words.
Furthermore, you have to tell your kids how to do the matching activity and allow them to follow the steps previously performed by you.
4. Word Puzzles
There are various types of word puzzle activities that you may play with your little kids. One of the simplest ways is to play it with a few scrabble tiles and after that, you can tell your little accomplice to unscramble them.
This will be a fun activity when you try to instruct your little accomplice to enjoy this activity with some interesting four-letter words with ER.
First, you have to draw all the letters on the pavement and then say a specific four-letter word, like a deer. Hearing this, you kid has to come forward and then stand on each of the four alphabets of the word deer to complete the game.
Also, the opposite method will be another memorable experience. Your little friend will stand on the English letters of a word one-by-one and you have to say the word made by them.
Conclusion
So, we hope that these fun learning activities will help you in your planning for offering some significant knowledge to your kids. For some more ideas, just keep following us.
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