What do a man, a can, and a fan have in common? They are all in the same word family! Young readers practice adding the first letter or letters to each word within a particular word family.

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...

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...

Young learners create a book of words that use the letter combination ake. Six pages are included for them to cut and color, and there's a space for them to trace the letters of the word as well as write the word independently. The...

Keep young readers engaged in learning to read and spell with this printable book on the word family -eep. Focusing on the words sheep, jeep, beep, and sleep young learners practice reading and writing these terms with the support of the...

kindergarteners work in pairs in order to identify words and pictures that belong in the same word family. They are given a set of cards with pictures of things from the -at, -all, and -it word families. The student pairs have to sort...

Pairs of students get together and learn the classic, "Miss Mary Mack" clapping rhyme. After playing a few times, they are asked what they noticed about many of the words? Hopefully, they realize that many of them end with the "ack"...

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...

Youngsters will love the adorable cat image on this worksheet as they practice writing words from the -at family. The resource includes several penmanship lines and a word bank of -at words, leaving a variety of options for use.

Scholars show what they know about word families with a worksheet that requires them to list as many words with a specific word ending as possible. Word families in focus are -at, -et, -ap, and -ip.     

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.

Use consonant digraphs to introduce learners to word patterns and high frequency words. They observe a chart with the digraphs /sh/, /ch/, /th/, and /wh/. After listening to each of these phonemes, scholars watch as the teacher...

As a class, scholars read the poems, Humpty Dumpty, Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, and Jack and Jill, in order to identify words with the same ending sound. Using their rhyming skills, learners brainstorm additional words from word...

An engaging lesson plan 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 plan should be a hit...

First graders read words from common word families.  In this word families lesson, 1st graders create various word sliders to display numerous word families.  The directions for making a word slider are included in the lesson.

First graders pretend to be spiders and flies to create new words. In this beginning sounds lesson, 1st graders use word cards to study word families. Students each have a card with the beginning sound or the ending of a word. Students...

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...

In this word families worksheet, students cut out 12 beginning sounds and put them in front of letters in a strip to create words in the "at" word family.

In this word families worksheet, learners cut out 6 beginning sounds and put them in front of letters in a strip to create words in the "ar" word family.

For this phonics worksheet, 2nd graders recognize the word family 'or'. Students practice saying, writing, and discussing the meaning of words containing 'or'.

Construct spelling words through a Making Words activity. Learners create words at various levels using onsets, rimes, suffixes, long and short vowels, and word families. They write words as they create them and compare the words with...

In this collection of -ain word family worksheets, 1st graders will create mini books of -ain words and sentences, fill in missing letters to create -ain words to match pictures, select -ain words from a word bank to properly complete...

What did the mouse run up? The clock! Practice consonant blends and rhyming with a lesson that combines a nursery rhyme with pronunciation practice and a hands-on craft activity. Kids will master the -ock word family with this set of...