Made for the Lao Family Center by Jennifer Ball, © Sept. 19, 2012, rev. 30 October 2012 10:39 PMPage - 1
The sound “str” is all about objects that are straight, or have something straight in them: “straw” in “strawberries,” for instance.
Words beginning with “str”
strawberry
straw
straws
street
stripes
strap
string
parking structure
Made for the Lao Family Center by Jennifer Ball, © Sept. 19, 2012, rev. 30 October 2012 10:39 PMPage - 2
Words beginning with “str”
stream
stroller
strong, strength
The sound “str” means to move quickly along a mostly straight path, like streams, streamers, and strollers. Because “str” is about “straightness,” this implies “strength,” “strong,” even “stretch”— from a strand of hair to a strand of DNA, the genetic code for all life. Because string is the key component of an instrument one strums, the metaphor of striation—stripes—gives a visual image to “structure,” “instructions,” and “strat-egy”: all which require a strict scaffolding, whether physical or metaphysical.
streamers
one stride
strand of hair
Made for the Lao Family Center by Jennifer Ball, © Sept. 19, 2012, rev. 30 October 2012 10:39 PMPage - 3
What words begin with “str”? (One is in the middle.)
comic _ _ _ ipstr
_ _ _ inged in _ _ _ uments_ _ _ and of DNA
washing in _ _ _ uctions
film _ _ _ips
_ _ _aining liquid _ _ _um