Keep it in the Family
Word families are groups of words that have the same ending sound. They are typically three or four letter words such as hug, bug, jug, mug, etc. You can help your child gain confidence in reading using simple word families because he will quickly realize he can read a lot of words when he knows the ending sound. Here is a quick activity you can do with your child to create word family flip books.
Begin by writing the word family sound on a piece of construction paper. Be sure to leave room at the beginning for the first letter of the words. We will use the “-an” family for our example. Once you have written “an” on the right side of the paper, print out the alphabet and place it in front of your child. Explain that the letters “a” and “n” make the sound /an/. Tell him that you will be making all of the words you can think of using that sound.
One at a time, go through the letters of the alphabet and help your child determine which letters can be used in front of “an” to make a new word. Each time a new word is identified, write the beginning letter on a strip of paper that will fit to the left of the “an” you wrote on the construction paper.
When you have gone through all of the letters of the alphabet, gather all of the strips of paper you have written and staple them to the left of the “an” on the construction paper. You child can now flip each strip of paper up to read a new word.
This activity can be repeated for any of the word families. A large listing can be found at http://www.mrsalphabet.com/wordfamilies.html.
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Written by Laura on February 28, 2010
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