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.

Encourage reading skills by highlighting the high frequency words essential for beginning readers. With our resource, students will begin to think of words as not only a series of individual letters and sounds, but as easily recognizable chunks of language. Make a word by adding an onset, like "sn", to the rime, like "ail". Then, say the word out loud. Finish a sentence by matching words, like "sweep" and "keep", to the boxes that show tall and small letters. Read a sentence, like "We like to glide down the wide slide", and circle all the words that rime. Then, write your own sentences using words that rime. 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.

Teach basic math skills like negative numbers, percentages, and decimals using word problems! Your students' reading skills will be strengthened as they learn basic math operations and critical thinking skills.The word problems included in this book are interesting enough to hold student attention, yet challenging enough to strengthen math skills. This book is designed to be completed by the student with little or no help from a parent or teacher which makes it a great resource for use at home or school.

**This is the chapter slice "What's Different" from the full lesson plan "Word Families: Long Vowels"** Increase vocabulary, sight word recognition and comprehension as you help your students identify the correct pronunciation of long 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 "Reading Passages" from the full lesson plan "Word Families: Long Vowels"** Increase vocabulary, sight word recognition and comprehension as you help your students identify the correct pronunciation of long 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.