Word Families

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...

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...

Matching letters to letter sounds can be fun and builds strong phonemic awareness. Kindergarteners take turns matching initial, medial, and final phonemes, to individual graphemes. They pick a card, say its name, then find the letter...

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.

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...

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"...

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.