Kindergarten
Word Families: -ag and -am
Twelve words to sort into the -ag house and the -am house: bag, tag and wag, ham, jam and yam.
Phonics worksheet · Rhyming and word families
Rhyme Time 3
Six new rhyming pairs to match with a line: jam and ham, lid and kid, mud and bud, fig and dig, vet and wet, top and hop.
- Grade level
- Kindergarten
- Time
- About 10 minutes
- Answer key
- Yes, page 2 of the PDF
- Kids practice
- Rhyming, Word families, Onset and rime, Reading by analogy
What kids do
“Read the words. Draw a line from each word to the word that rhymes with it.”
Printed on the sheet:
- Your turn: write a word that rhymes with jam
Words on this sheet
jamdiglidkidmudbudfighopvethamtopwet
Teacher tip
Say each pair out loud. Ask kids to add one more rhyme to each pair.
How to use it
- Write the word family ending on the board and add starting letters together.
- Read the words in each family like a chant to hear the rhyme.
- Send it home with a note asking families to listen to their child read the words.
Watch for
Kids who make silly words and count them as real. Ask them to use the word in a sentence.
Talk about it
- What part of these words is the same?
- What sound does this letter or letter team make?
Take it further
Make a word family flip book.
US Letter, prints well in black and white. Free for home and classroom use: print as many copies as you need.
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