Printables
Scholastic

Reading Success Mini Books: Word Families

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Engage children in learning about rhyming words with this printable book on the -ing word family. Including six words with supporting pictures, young learners practice reading and writing the words before adding their own word...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

High Five Blend and Word Family Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Practice using word blends and learning about word families by participating in a class game. Learners will collaborate as teams in a game by throwing beanbags onto a shower curtain with word blends on it. They will say the sound their...
Worksheet
Heidi Songs

Penguin Word Families

For Students K - 1st
These silly penguins are just asking to be colored in! Similar to paint-by-numbers, kids color in these penguins based on the words written on the drawing. They color in anything in the -it family black and the -in family orange.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hop Into the Op Word Family

For Teachers K - 1st
An engaging lesson that teaches the /op/ word family is here for you. In it, learners utilize a PowerPoint and a worksheet embedded in the plan to help them better-understnad this word family. This fun lesson should be a hit with your...
Interactive
Curated OER

Printable "it" Word Family Word Jumble

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this online interactive word families worksheet, students examine 10 words with the "it" sound. Students use the word bank to unscramble 10 sets of letters to match the terms in the word bank. This worksheet may also be printed for...
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: High Frequency Words, Sand Paper Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners use a stack of words embellished with tactile elements, such as sandpaper, to practice high-frequency words. Pupils trace the tactile surface of each letter in the word, write it on their paper, then find and glue that word from...
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K12 Reader

1st Grade Spelling Lists

For Students 1st Standards
If you're looking for spelling lists, check out this resource! Included here are 36 spelling worksheets, each with eight words to study. The worksheets include sight words, and each list also focuses on a particular word...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Family Memory Match

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this word families matching worksheet, students cut out 24 word cards. Students place beginning sound cards face down in one group and word family ending sound cards face down in a separate group. Students turn over cards to make...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Families Accuracy

For Teachers 1st
First graders work to build word family accuracy. In this word family lesson plan, 1st graders practice matching words with the same rime to words that they know. They play a matching game using words with the same rimes.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduce word families

For Teachers 1st
First graders play a matching game to find words that rhyme with each other with word endings est and ill. In this word family lesson plan, 1st graders match up the words in small groups by using word cards.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word families accuracy

For Teachers 1st
First graders read new words that share the same rime as a word they already know.  In this word families lesson, 1st graders read words on index cards with the teacher, play a matching game with different rimes, and eventually read...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Families: -ack

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this word families worksheet, students write the ending -ack to complete 9 words. Students write the whole word on the line. Students write a word of their own that ends in -ack and illustrate it.
Printables
Progressive Phonics

Short Vowel “A”

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Support your phonics instruction with this beginner reading book that focuses on the short vowel /a/. The book is divided into four chapters based on the word families at, ad, an, and am. Letters and words used are c, a, t, s, m, n,...
Worksheet
Curated OER

"IT" Word Family Words-Alphabetical Order

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this "it" word family activity, students alphabetize a set of 10 "it" words. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Some "ar" Words

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students say and study 15 words containing the sound "ar." Students put them in alphabetical order, then draw pictures for them.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Play With Clay-'ay' Word Family

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this 'ay' word family worksheet, students color a picture, read a sentence and circle correct answers to questions about it and trace and write the word clay.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Rhyming Words: -at Word Family

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this rhyming words worksheet, students build words by adding the beginning letters to the -at ending. Students are given the letters to add. Students write the new words on the lines below. Students build eight words.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduce Word Families

For Teachers 1st
First graders study words. In this word families lesson plan, 1st graders discover words that rhyme with the endings -est and -ill. They work as a group to determine which ending various words have and to put them in the proper category...
Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Working with Words Teacher Directed Activity by Mark Cogan for Elem. Test Prep

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students build word families. In this interactive language arts activity, students visit a website where they play a game creating word families. Students may print out their work when finished.
Activity
Literacy Connects

Activities to Build Phonological Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Begin your reading program each day with a mini lesson on phonological awareness using these engaging activities listed in the resource. Young ones will enjoy word families, clapping and counting syllables, identifying single sounds...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Patterns

For Students 1st - 2nd
In these word pattern worksheets, students practice writing words that contain the following patterns: ice, ick, ide, ig, ight, ill, ime, in, ine, ing, ink, ip, ish, and it.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Families 'eep'

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this word families worksheet, students create eight different words that contain the letters "eep." Students also choose words from the "eep" family to complete each of the 8 sentences.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Vocabulary Building: Words with "OR"

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this spelling words with the "or" pattern worksheet, students write words using definition clues, unscramble letters, and write sentences using the words or, for, more, before, and color. Students write fifteen short answers.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Build a Word

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore new words through letters or letter groups. In this lesson plan about words, students use index cards to build new words. Each index card contains one letter or letter group. Students utilize different strategies like...