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Kindergarten and 1st Grade Word Families Resources

Who knew you could play a game with dice that helps your 1st learn to read? Try this game that will have your child rolling his way to better reading skills.

Roll a Word

Give your child practice writing the letters of the alphabet with these worksheets, and then get started with rhyming skills by practicing &quot;-at&quot; sounds.

Returning Rhyme: Practicing "-At" Sounds

Help your child with his reading skills by introducing him to the word family with this phonics worksheet, which teaches the word family &quot;-an&quot;.

Words That Rhyme with "Man" 

This worksheet gives your child four pages to practice his rhyming skills and identify words with long &quot;a&quot; sounds.

Words with the Long A Sound

Sort out the short vowel sounds with this comprehensive phonics packet! Beginning readers will review vowel families and practice differentiating between "short" vowels and "long" vowels.

Sound Sorting

Comb the beach with your first grader for hints to help them think of words that rhyme.

Rhyming at the Beach

Word families are useful building blocks to help young readers and writers form words. This workbook lets kids build words with puzzle pieces and dice for some spelling fun.

Word Family Words

It&#39;s rhyme time! Your child will love learning about words that sound alike with this workbook, full of puzzles, pictures and mini books that will help any budding reader get a head start on sounding out words.

Rhyming and Word Families

Have fun with word families by using them in a story. This worksheet features four words that end with "-an."

Word Family Story: -an

Introduce your learner to word families in a fun way with this word family story. She'll be amazed how many words are in the "-at" family.

Word Family Story: -at

How many words end with "-ug"? This sheet is a great way to teach word families and help your child form the building blocks of writing and reading.

Word Family Story: -ug

Get to know the &quot;an&quot; family! Look at the pictures of words ending in &quot;an,&quot; then fill in the missing letter to complete each word.

Word Families: Meet the "An" Family

Children practice their reading skills and familiarize themselves with the "-eep" word family in this cut-and-paste activity.

All in the Word Family: "Eep" Words

Make word families fun by putting them in a story! Try it out with the "ip" word family. Practicing word families early in school will help your child later.

Word Family Story: -ip

Are word families boring for your kid? Not anymore! Check out this fun way to learn word families, the building blocks of language.

Word Family Story: -ot

Climb the word ladder in this puzzling phonics challenge! Your child will use his knowledge of word families to change "CAT" into "DOG" one letter at a time.

Word Ladder Challenge

Make learning fun for your kindergartener with this "ab" word family worksheet. Have her color in the pictures to learn vocabulary!

Match the Words: -ab Family

Get to know the "at" word family with this assemble-yourself mini book.

My Word Family Book: "At" Words

Give your beginning readers practice in reading and writing easy words that end in "-an," "-at," "-ap" and "-ad" sounds with this fun worksheet!

Returning Rhyme II: Practicing "-At", "-An", "-Ap" and "-Ad" Words

It's all in the family! Beginning readers learn about "an" words with this fun tracing and matching activity.

Welcome to Word Families: "An" Words

Give your kindergartener some rhyming and vocabulary practice with this word family worksheet.

Trace the Word Family: -in Words

"In" isn't just a word; it's a word family! It's also a good introduction to learning word families for your 1st grader. Check out this word family story.

Word Family Story: -in

Get to know the "at" family! Look at the pictures and fill in the missing letter to complete each word.

Word Families: Meet the "At" Family

Understanding how to pronounce the short I sound, such as in pill and film, is important for first graders encountering words they don't know. This guided lesson teaches kids all about the Short I sound, and provides lots of examples of short I words. Targeted practice like this helps to reinforce kids' understanding of short vowel sounds and boosts phonemic awareness, upon which lifelong reading skills are based.

Short I 2

Turn early phonics practice into a fun game with these cutout word dice. Print, cut and glue, and you're ready to roll your way to reading fun!

Word Dice

Gear up your first grader for reading success with a lesson in word families. Get started with -at words like cat, bat, and fat.

Writing Word Families: -at Words

Having a strong understanding of short A words like bag, hand and bat can help first graders with reading fluency. This guided lesson helps to support first graders as they expand their comprehension of short A words. With targeted exercises and familiar examples, the lesson will take kids through the short A words they will most commonly come acrsoos in first grade texts.

Short A 2

In first grade phonics, it's important to reinforce kids' understanding of short O words like dolphin, dog, sock and doll. By learning short vowels, kids can decode and decipher these sounds in words they don't already know. This guided lesson takes first graders through exercises and examples that will help them practice identifying short O sounds within a text.

Short O 2

This eg word family cut and paste activity helps  kids learn how to build new words by adding letters. They'll learn rhyming words from the -eg word family.

"eg" Word Family

Make learning word families easy for your child with this cut and paste -am word worksheet. Practice rhyming with your 1st grader for extra vocabulary practice.

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Kindergarten and 1st Grade Word Families Resources