Classroom teachers will learn about teaching phonics through word families and letter combinations. Teachers will learn how to implement the use of word families and letter combinations, understand how to measure progress with word...

A great fun activity to use with students to practice fluency and word families.

Find over seventy different word families with common spelling patterns, and lists of elementary level words for each family.

Change a letter - make a new word. Johnny Appleseed will be the shared text used during this word families lesson.

The focus of the instruction of identification strategies in this lesson plan is the book "Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type." Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers Word Families an, at, all, ill, ack. It includes interaction activity with self checking opportunities.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers Word Families an, at, all, ill, ack. It includes interaction activity with self checking opportunities.

This technology-based lesson will help students develop their phonemic awareness by teaching students to hear the sounds in the -ig and -ip word families. It also leads students to apply what they have learned.

This article focuses on providing real practice with root words including defining root words, determining the prefixes and suffixes, understanding word families, and providing a worksheet with an answer key.

Understanding word structure and being able to identify root or base words, prefixes and suffixes give your student valuable vocabulary-building skills. Click on the Prefixes and Suffixes handout.

Read words that differ from a given word by only the initial consonant. Click on the correct word after hearing it read and used in a sentence. The focus of this game is on "-ad" words.

Read words that differ from a given word by only the initial consonant. Click on the correct word after hearing it read and used in a sentence. The focus of this game is on "-ag" words.

An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...

A classroom game to help students create new words from a particular word family. The class is divided into two teams; the first student in each line is given a flyswatter and must go to the board and "swat" the correct letter that...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Flipchart children can drag the beginning letters to make words with the -at and -an word families.

Part 2 of a series of interactive exercises concerning word roots and vocabulary skills. Site initially explains vocabulary and word roots, then allows students to complete interactive exercises.

Using four popular children's books, "Corduroy", "Franklin in the Dark", "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", and "Chrysanthemum", the Word Wizard interactive game builds vocabulary with related words. Each 30-minute lesson looks for patterns...

This article focuses on teaching root words to 5th graders. It includes an explanation of root words, prefixes and suffixes, and word families. It also provides a root words worksheet with answer key.

[Free Registration/Login Required] After completing this lesson, students will be able to identify and construct words having the ending -at.

Use this list to master the letter combinations which create the long i sound in English words.

There are three activities in this lesson: 1) read root words and definitions, and type root into the box to complete the sentence; 2) drag root into box to complete the sentence; and 3) determine meaning of new word based on meaning of...

This lesson engages students in making short words. Students will regroup the short words into word families and discuss the findings with classmates.

This instructional activity covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow up instructional activity.

Play interactive game building IP words. Also practice identifying initial sounds and matching pictures. Short I words: zip, rip, dip, sip.