Word Families

About the Word Families worksheets

This free phonics pack has 24 printable A4 pages: words that end the same way. You can edit the words on every page, print it or save it as a PDF, and there's a matching PowerPoint lesson to teach it with. It's made for English teachers in Korea and works for kindergarten and elementary classes, hagwons and tutoring.

What's inside

1. Word Family: -at: All these words end in -at. Read them out loud.
2. Word Family: -an: All these words end in -an. Read them out loud.
3. Word Family: -ap: All these words end in -ap. Read them out loud.
4. Word Family: -ag: All these words end in -ag. Read them out loud.
5. Word Family: -ed: All these words end in -ed. Read them out loud.
6. Word Family: -en: All these words end in -en. Read them out loud.
7. Word Family: -et: All these words end in -et. Read them out loud.
8. Word Family: -ig: All these words end in -ig. Read them out loud.
9. Word Family: -in: All these words end in -in. Read them out loud.
10. Word Family: -ip: All these words end in -ip. Read them out loud.
11. Word Family: -op: All these words end in -op. Read them out loud.
12. Word Family: -ot: All these words end in -ot. Read them out loud.
13. Word Family: -og: All these words end in -og. Read them out loud.
14. Word Family: -ug: All these words end in -ug. Read them out loud.
15. Word Family: -un: All these words end in -un. Read them out loud.
16. Word Family: -ake: All these words end in -ake. Read them out loud.
17. Word Family: -ing: All these words end in -ing. Read them out loud.
18. Word Family: -ell: All these words end in -ell. Read them out loud.
19. Word Family Sort 1: Read each word. Write it under its word family.
20. Word Family Sort 2
21. Word Family Sort 3
22. Word Family Sort 4

Words in this pack

cat, hat, bat, rat, chat, sat, pan, man, van, can, fan, ran, cap, map, nap, tap, clap, trap, bag, flag, tag, wag, stag, zigzag, bed, red, sled, fed, shed, wed

How to use it in class

Introduce the sound with the picture pages and have students say every word out loud before they write. Then move on to the circling, matching and writing pages. Short daily practice works better than one long session, so two or three pages a class is plenty.

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• Vowel Teams
• R-Controlled Vowels
• Blends & Digraphs
• Digraphs: sh, ch, th, wh, ck, ng
• Syllables & Compound Words