Introduce your youngsters to -ig words with this mini-book that breaks the words into onsets and rimes. As kids read, trace letters, and pronounce each word, they get the chance to watch a big pig put on a wig and dig! (PS: The pig is also a pirate.)

Concepts

word families, phonograms, onsets and rimes, rhyming words, -ig words, tracing, spelling, spelling patterns

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Set up stations in your class: one for putting the book together, one for coloring and tracing, and one for reading the book out loud
• Pair this with other materials that cover onsets and rimes and word families

Classroom Considerations

• The instructions mention a collection of little books, but only the one sample is provided

Pros

• Each word is paired with a silly illustration
• Includes instructions for how how to put the books together
• The -ig words are added in gradually to scaffold the material

Cons

• None

Common Core

RF.K.2.a RF.K.2.b RF.K.2.c RF.K.2.d RF.K.2.e RF.1.2.a