| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | |||||
Page Last Updated Mar 15, 2011
Number of Visits: 735
Jump down this page to view:
Favorite Links FlashCards
|
WORD FAMILIES Skilled readers recognize patterns in words rather than sound words out, letter by letter. Word families, also known as phonograms, rimes, or chunks, are letter patterns that are more stable than individual vowel sounds. Readers can use word families to decode by analogy-use what they know about one word to decode another. If a reader knows the word, tack, for example, it's likely that he/she will be able to read other -ack words, such as snack and jacket. Recognizing word families helps students build large reading vocabularies. The most common word families are below. Please click on the word family to see the words that can be made by adding initial consonants or blends to these sounds. I will be starting with the short vowel word families, such as -at and -ap, then progress to the long vowel families, such as -ice and -eep. Please scroll down to see Home-School Connection activivites. -ack HOME-SCHOOL CONNECTION ACTIVITIES How can you help increase your youngster's word family skills? Try one or more of these ideas listed below! 1. An Envelope of Words: To encourage your child to practice letter patterns, write the words on paper and cut each letter apart. Place the letters in an envelope, and label it with the word family. Then ask your child to build words. Your child could also write the words he/she makes on paper, chalkboard, markerboard, etc. This activity can be extended to making sentences and cutting them apart to rebuild. 2. Scrabble Pieces: Use letter tiles from your Scrabble game to build words. When your child makes a word, math facts could also be practiced. 3. Nursury Rhymes/Dr. Seuss books: Place small sticky notes over words in the story that contain word chunks. Let your child play a guessing game and guess what spelling patterns/words belong it the space. Lift the stick note to check your answer. 4. Magnetic Letters: Invite your child to use magnetic letters to build words on the refrigerator. 5. Texture Writing: Ask to child to make words by using a variety of textures: Play-Doh, shaving cream, sand, markers, chalk, crayons, finger paint, waterpaint, etc. Any games that are used to practice these words such as: BINGO, Word Search, etc. would be a great way to practice. Most importantly, READ! Share books with your child every day. After reading a story for enjoyment, challenge your child to search in the text for word families he or she knows.
cab dab gab jab tab crab drab back hack Jack lack pack quack rack sack tack black clack bad tad glad fad clad dad brad had lad mad pad sad bag gag hag jag lag nag sag tag rag wag brag drag snag flag bail fail frail Gail hail jail mail nail quail rail sail snail tail trail wail brain chain drain gain grain lain main pain plain rain Spain sprain bake brake cake drake fake flake Jake lake make rake shake snake | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
