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