1st grade
Word Family Word Search
Ten words from ten word families (-ack, -ick, -ock, -ell, -ill, -all, -ing, -ink, -unk, -uck) hidden across, down and diagonally down.
Phonics worksheet · Rhyming and word families
Rhyme Time 4
Six rhyming pairs with longer endings to match with a line: bell and well, sock and rock, duck and truck, king and sing.
- Grade level
- 1st grade
- 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 bell
Words on this sheet
bellsinksockwellducktruckkinglakecakesingpinkrock
Teacher tip
The longer endings are chunks. Ask kids to underline them.
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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