Encourage reading fluency with activities that emphasize word families. Each unit is composed of three parts: Part 1 introduces students to word families; Part 2 challenges their knowledge of word families through independent work; and Part 3 reviews the lessons to ensure students are able to read, write, and identify the word families.

Increase vocabulary, sight word recognition and comprehension for beginning readers. Our resource is an essential tool to aid students as they begin to read and understand more about the onset and rhyme connection found in word families. Add onsets like "p" and "st" to rimes like "an" and "op" to form words like "pan" and "stop". Find the best onset, like "c", to finish the rime, like "at", to match the word "cat" with its real-life picture. Match the best rime word, like "rid", to finish the sentence, like "Get rid of the trash". Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, reproducible writing tasks, rime & onset cards, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Kids will have fun filling up these adorable "word family trees" with words containing more than 50 must-know phonograms. Each reproducible activity page provides repeated practice in building words containing a target word family. Research shows that recognizing and using phonograms helps children develop phonemic awareness of rhyming words and improves decoding, spelling, and writing skills. Gives kids repeated practice with more than 50 different word families Kids practice reading and writing hundreds and hundreds of words Fun and engaging format is a surefire motivator Perfect for in-class use or homework!

**This is the chapter slice "Reading Passages" from the full lesson plan "Word Families: Short Vowels"** Increase vocabulary, sight word recognition and comprehension as you help your students identify the correct pronunciation of short vowel phonograms (word families) using real life pictures as an aid. We also highlight the “Dolch” high frequency words which encourage beginning reading skills. As students begin to read and understand more about the onset and rhyme connection found in word families, they will begin to think of words as not only a series of individual letters and sounds, but as easily recognizable segments or chunks of language. Reproducible worksheets include, rhyming, writing, poetry, cloze sentences, riddles and chunking. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

**This is the chapter slice "What's Different" from the full lesson plan "Word Families: Short Vowels"** Increase vocabulary, sight word recognition and comprehension as you help your students identify the correct pronunciation of short vowel phonograms (word families) using real life pictures as an aid. We also highlight the “Dolch” high frequency words which encourage beginning reading skills. As students begin to read and understand more about the onset and rhyme connection found in word families, they will begin to think of words as not only a series of individual letters and sounds, but as easily recognizable segments or chunks of language. Reproducible worksheets include, rhyming, writing, poetry, cloze sentences, riddles and chunking. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.