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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 and...
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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...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Formation: Word Families

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this word formation worksheet, students identify groups of words that belong to the same word family, create word families from a given word, and fill in sentences using words that come from the same word family. Students answer...
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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.
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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...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Printable "it" Word Family Word Jumble

For Students 1st - 2nd
For 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...
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PPT
Curated OER

I Can Make New Words

For Teachers Pre-K - K
A fun rhyming song written out on these slides help learners comprehend what word families consist of in order to make their own new words! For example, they first see tan, can, fan, and ran with the initial different letters in a...
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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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Worksheet
Curated OER

"ight" Word Family Worksheets

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this word families worksheet, students examine 10 words that feature "ight" and then write them in alphabetical order on the lines provided.
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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...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Families

For Students K - 1st
In this reading worksheet, students circle the correct word and it below the picture. All words are from the -all/ell word family.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Family Arrows

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify correct word families. In this word families educational game, students practice matching words to the correct word family.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Families Accuracy

For Teachers 1st
First graders work to build word family accuracy. In this word family lesson, 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.
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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.
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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 instructional activity, 1st graders read words on index cards with the teacher, play a matching game with different rimes, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Poetry & Word Families

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students study a word family before listing rhyming words in that family. They use the words to begin developing lines of poetry. They continue writing poetry individually and finally, they illustrate their work using graphic software.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Beach Ball Word Families

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders throw a beach ball to each other to play a game that helps them practice word families. In this word family lesson plan, 2nd graders throw a beach ball to each other and whatever part their thumb lands on, they look at the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Families: -ack

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this word families activity, 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.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Problems

For Students 3rd - 4th
Here is a very nice resource that presents 12 math word problems suitable for third and fourth graders. All four of the basic operations are used in these one-step problems. An answer key is provided on page two. This would make a very...
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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, d,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

"IT" Word Family Words-Alphabetical Order

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this "it" word family worksheet, students alphabetize a set of 10 "it" words. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
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Activity
Kiz Club

Phonics Floor Game: Short Vowels

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Turn your phonics instruction into a game! First, hop on to word family foot prints to match the short vowel sound cards. Then, take the game to the next level; write a word on the foot print that has the same word family sound. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Rhyming Words: Spoon and Moon

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things does not belong. It's true! Little learners will say each of the four words in each of four rows, to determine which one does not rhyme with the others. After that, they...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Rhyming Words: Hen and Ten

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
It's rhyme time! Little ones look at the image in each of four rows, they then circle an image that rhymes. They match four rhyming words and trace the words hen and ten.