Word Families Teaching Resources
Save time on your ELA lesson planning with word families activities, worksheets, games, and more printable and digital teaching resources for elementary school teachers! Put a fresh spin on your reading and spelling lessons with ready-made resources designed to engage and delight your students.
This collection of teaching resources from Teach Starter's teacher team has curriculum-aligned options to help you cut down on the time-consuming task of lesson planning and help your elementary class meet both Common Core and state-level standards. With editable options for many of the collection's resources, save yourself a ton of time with these ready-made ways to explore word families.
New to this section of the ELA curriculum or just looking for a fresh way to approach the topic? Take a peek at this primer from our reading experts!
What Are Word Families?
Word families are groups of words that have a common feature or pattern. They are often used in teaching reading and spelling, as they can help our students learn words more easily by recognizing the patterns within them.
For example, the word family for the word "run" would include "ran," "running," "runner," etc.
Word families can also be useful for teaching vocabulary, as words within a word family tend to have similar meanings and can be used in similar contexts.
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Sound Wall Classroom Interactive Bulletin Board
Print a complete Sound Wall designed to help you enhance your phonics program by displaying the phonemes your students are currently mastering.
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Learn to Read Short E - Daily Phonics for Kids
Teach your students to read short /e/ CVC words with a daily digital phonics instructional slide deck.
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Word Chain Worksheet - Final -st Blends
Create word chains by manipulating the individual phonemes in words with this differentiated word-building worksheet.
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Word Chain Worksheet - Beginning L Blends
Manipulate the individual phonemes in words to create new ones with this differentiated word-building worksheet.
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Word Family Activity Sheets
A set of 20 word family activity sheets for students to complete.
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Final E - Word Study Worksheets Pack
Provide extra practice reading, spelling, and writing final-e words with a set of 44 Final E Word Study Worksheets.
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Draw and Write Final E Worksheet Pack
Provide extra practice reading, spelling, and writing final-e words with Draw and Write Worksheets.
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Valentine's Love Bug Rhyming Game
Bring a bit of love into the classroom with an interactive Valentine’s Day rhyming word activity for Preschool and Kindergarten.
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Penguin Rime Interactive - Word Family Sort
Help these chilly word family penguins escape the frigid water by sorting them onto the correct ice floes.
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Word Family Sorting Cards
A set of 36 sorting cards to reinforce word families and rhyming with your students.
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Snowball Word Family Puzzles - Winter Reading Center
Enhance your phonics lessons with a set of snowball-themed word family puzzles.
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Rhyming Games - Snowman Match-Up
Bring a bit of snow into the classroom with a winter-themed rhyming word game for Preschool and Kindergarten.
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Word Family Pumpkin Sort
Enhance your phonics lessons with a pumpkin-themed word family sorting activity.
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Pumpkin Patch Find the Rhyme Interactive Game for Kindergarten
Bring a bit of fall into the classroom with an interactive Pumpkin Patch rhyming word game for Preschool and Kindergarten.
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Onset and Rime Roll-a-Word Activity
Build real and nonsense words by blending onsets and rimes with an onset-rime dice roll literacy game
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Onset and Rime Interactive Clip Cards
Form words by blending onsets and rimes using a Google Interactive Onset-Rime Clip Card Center.
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Onset and Rime SCOOT! Activity
Have fun building words by blending onsets and rimes using an Onset-Rime Scoot! Game.
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Short and Long Vowel Sounds Sorting Center
Distinguish between long and short vowel sounds with a short and long vowel sorting center activity.
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Google Slides Interactive - Onset and Rime Activity
Form words by blending onsets and their rimes with a Google Slides interactive activity.
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Onset and Rime Clip Cards - Reading Center
Form words by blending onsets and rimes using an Onset-Rime Clip Card Center.
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Google Interactive Activity- Reading, Spelling, and Rhyming Word Families
Build skill with word families, rhyming words, and more with a Google Slides Interactive Word Family Activity.
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Google Slides Interactive- CCVC Word Building Activity
Practice identifying consonants, vowels, blends, and digraphs sounds while spelling 22 CCVC (consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant) words.
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Word Family Sorting Activity - Set 4
A sorting activity to practice word families.
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Word Family Sorting Activity - Set 3
A sorting activity to practice word families.
- Word Families Games
- Word Families Sorting Activities
- Word Families Interactive Activities
- Word Families Worksheets
- Word Families Matchup Games
- Word Families Active Games
- Word Families Instructional Slide Decks
- Word Families Puzzles
- Word Families Posters
- Word Families Task Cards
- Word Families Labels Signs Decorations
- Word Families Dominoes
- Word Families Bulletin Board Displays
- Word Families Dice Games
- Word Families for Pre-K
- Word Families for Kindergarten
- Word Families for 1st Grade
- Word Families for 2nd Grade
- Word Families for 3rd Grade