There are 10 lessons/activities listed below that cover word families ending in -ank, -ake,-ame, -ain, -ate and early readers. These lessons have materials, size, and preparation time listed. These lessons can be done in multiple ways based on what your objectives are. There are lessons for all types of learners listed and each lesson is able to be modified in some way to fit a special learner.These activities are best for your kinesthetic learners who learn best by being hands-on.
Hands on activities: 1. Word Families: Word Slider
Materials:
Colored paper
Scissors
Word family list (ank, ake, ame, ain, ate)
Pencils
Procedures: (20 min)
Students will be given two different pieces of colored paper and scissors.
Students will have to choose from 5-7 different word familes and make “word sliders using the paper and their scissors.
Students will cut 2 small slits in a half sheet of paper and write the word ending on the right side of the slit.
Student will then cut a strip of colored paper and write different word beginning sounds such as T, C, M, Th, Ch, P, B, H, etc. on the strip.
Students will take the strip of paper and slide it through the slits to make different word families.
2. Word Family Bug Swat Materials:
Fly swatter
Construction Paper
Scissors
Tape
Colored Markers
Basket
Notecards
1. Cut large bugs out of construction paper. 2. Print various word family rimes. (ake, ain, ank, ate) 3. Tape these to the white board. 4. Print various words that these word families can be identified with. (train, cake, back, plate) 5. Tape or glue these words onto notecards and mix them up into a basket. 6. Divide students into two teams (split the class in half). 7. Have one student from each group at a time come to the board and use a "Word Swatter" to hit the word family that the words belong in. 8. Example: Teacher randomly chooses the word "Train". Two students are at the board representing their "teams". The teacher will read the word "Train" out and whoever can swat the "ain" bug first wins a point for their team.
3. Rhyme around Baseball Materials:
Chart Paper
Marker
Objects to use as bases
Poster or cards with word family endings
Procedures:
You act as pitcher. Stand on the mound and have the first team line up to bat. Show the batter a word family ending. If the student responds with a rhyming word, he or she advances to first base and writes the word on the chart paper.
Each additional batter is given a rhyming word until all words are used. Give out a new word family when all possible words have been used.
If a student repeats a word, gives an incorrect word, or writes the word incorrectly on the chart paper, it counts as a strike. After three strikes the next team bats.
The team with the most words at the end of three innings wins. Take note of any students who appear to struggle; you may wish to record this information in an Activity Log.
4. Word Family Flower
Word_Family_Flower.jpg
Materials:
Flower print-out
Scissors
Glue
Crayons
1. Print off a class set of a flower. (You can find these printable layouts online). 2. Have students print the word family of the week in the center of the flower. (If you want to teach more than one family, it would be a good idea to have each student work on a different one). (Example: "AIN") 3. Have students print as many words as they can come up with that include the specific word family. 4. Have students color the flower. 5. Have students cut out the petal shapes and glue them around the center to make a "Word Family Flower". 6. Allow students to share and discuss.
5. Piggy Bank Craft Materials:
Empty Rectangular Kleenex box
Pink Construction Paper
Two toilet paper rolls
Cotton Ball
Glue
Scissors
Procedures:
FEET:
If using toilet paper rolls, cut each roll in half so you have four short tubes. May require adult assistance.
Paint the corks pink (or leave them brown) or paint/colour the toilet paper rolls depending on which you are using.
As an alternative, you could also glue pink paper, gift wrap or felt to them.
Set aside to dry.
BODY:
Wrap pink paper/gift wrap around Kleenex box.
You need to cover the top and all the sides.
Covering the bottom of the box is optional.
Adults with smaller children can prewrap the box like one would wrap a gift OR you can trace each side of the box onto the pink paper, cut out each traced piece and glue it to the box.
The tracing method doesn’t cover the box quite as neatly, but is easier for 3 year olds than wrapping would be. (Who says crafts have to be neat?)
HEAD:
Print out the template of choice. Glue to cardboard if you want to make the template pieces sturdier.
Colour and cut out the template pieces. (Younger children may require assistance with the cutting, especially if you used cardboard.)
Glue the cotton ball to the snout (nose) and to the head. The cotton ball will be between the snout and the head. This makes the snout stick out from the head to give a 3 dimensional effect.
Glue the small triangle to the large triangle to make ears. You can put glitter on the ears or replace the small triangles with triangles of pink felt.
Glue the eyes and ears to the head.
ASSEMBLING THE PIGGY BANK
Glue the head to one end of the pig.
Tape or glue the feet to the bottom of the pig (I usually use a glue gun for this part, but tape works fine too). If using toilet paper roll feet, you may want to cut ½ inch down 5 or 6 times to make tabs. Fold down the tabs to give you a larger surface for gluing/taping.
Slice the top of the pig open (where the kleenex comes out). This is where you will put the money.
OPTIONAL: Poke a hole in the back end of the pig with a pencil. Make a little ball at the end of the pipe cleaner. Stick the unballed end into the kleenex box (through the hole you just sliced open) and stick it through the hole you poked with the pencil. The balled end should keep it from going all the way through. Finally, twirl the pipe cleaner around the pencil to make a twisty pig tail.
Glue template bow (or make one of scraps of ribbon) to the pig’s head for a girl or under the chin for a boy
6. Beach Ball Word Families
Materials:
Beach ball
Marker
Small slips of paper
Tape
1. Write the rimes you would like your students to learn on the slips of paper. Attach the slips of the paper to the beach ball with tape. (Make sure the slips are secure!) 2. Have your students from a group of four. Give one student a beach ball. 3. The student with the beach ball goes first, tossing it to another student. 4. Have the student who catches the ball take note of where his or her thumb lands. Whichever rime the thumb lands on will be the rime he or she needs to use to make a word. (If the rime is -ock, for example, the word could be rock or sock.) 5. Which ever rime the thumb lands on will be the rime they need to make a word with. EX. If their thumb lands on -ank, a word could be bank. 6. Have your students continue to toss the ball and form words in this manner for as long as you want (you should at least make sure that all six rimes have been used).
7. Crazy Eights With Word Families!
Materials:
Thick paper cut into playing card-sized rectangles
4 different colors of markers
Procedures:
Just like the card game Crazy Eights, you'll make a set of cards that can be divided into four different categories, rather than suits. Pick four word families that are challenging, but won't frustrate her. For example, -ain (train,brainl), -ake (bake, cake), -ank (bank, crank), and -ate (bate,plate).
Pick an equal number of words from each word family and write them out with one word per card. You'll mix up the colors within a word family because you don't want any one word family to be all the same color. Use four different colors to write out the cards.
Have her make a few “wild” cards, “skip your turn” cards, and “reverse” cards to add some challenging twists and turns to the game.
Now you'll deal out seven cards to each player. The rest of the cards should be stacked face-down in a neat stack in the center.
Flip one card over from the face-down stack in the center.
You'll play the game just like Crazy Eights, trying to match either the color or word family that appears on the face-up card in the middle. Therefore, if a red card bearing the word “cat” has been flipped, you'll either have to lay down a red card or a card that represents the “-at” word family. If you do not have a card to play, you must draw from the face-down stack until you find a card that can be played.
When any player gets down to just one card, they must say announce it to the other players by saying, "Hop!". If not, the other players may point out this failure to warn, and the said player will not be able to go out that round.
The winner of the game is the first player to run out of cards!
8. Word Family Flip Books
As kids turn the pages of our ingenious flip books, they match letters, blends and digraphs with a specific ending sound—and build up to 300 words! 30 ten-page flip books each focus on a different word ending.
Targets standards in these areas: • Decoding & word recognition • Identifying rhyming words • Initial phoneme
9. Word Family Notebook
Children match the tiles to the target patterns in the text. All the words in these captivating tales are target word family words, or easy sight words, so children can focus on developing fluent reading skills. Included Guidebook provides home and school activities, word lists, and record-keeping template.
10. Word Families Stories and Activities
Word Family Stories and Activities, Level A makes it fun and easy to practice predictable patterns within words. The engaging reproducible stories and activities help students make connections with word sounds and spelling patterns. By learning to recognize familiar parts of words, students rapidly increase their reading vocabulary, leading to a positive reading experience. The word family words are made meaningful in the context of engaging, often humorous stories. The comprehension and vocabulary pages take students beyond word recognition, providing practice with test-type comprehension questions and word meaning.Reproducible word-list sliders encourage repeated practice of the word families, leading to increased oral reading fluency.
Hands on activities:
1. Word Families: Word Slider
Materials:
Procedures: (20 min)
2. Word Family Bug Swat
Materials:
1. Cut large bugs out of construction paper.
2. Print various word family rimes. (ake, ain, ank, ate)
3. Tape these to the white board.
4. Print various words that these word families can be identified with. (train, cake, back, plate)
5. Tape or glue these words onto notecards and mix them up into a basket.
6. Divide students into two teams (split the class in half).
7. Have one student from each group at a time come to the board and use a "Word Swatter" to hit the word family that the words belong in.
8. Example: Teacher randomly chooses the word "Train". Two students are at the board representing their "teams". The teacher will read the word "Train" out and whoever can swat the "ain" bug first wins a point for their team.
3. Rhyme around Baseball
Materials:
Procedures:
4. Word Family Flower
Materials:
1. Print off a class set of a flower. (You can find these printable layouts online).
2. Have students print the word family of the week in the center of the flower. (If you want to teach more than one family, it would be a good idea to have each student work on a different one). (Example: "AIN")
3. Have students print as many words as they can come up with that include the specific word family.
4. Have students color the flower.
5. Have students cut out the petal shapes and glue them around the center to make a "Word Family Flower".
6. Allow students to share and discuss.
5. Piggy Bank Craft
Materials:
Procedures:
6. Beach Ball Word Families
Materials:
- Beach ball
- Marker
- Small slips of paper
- Tape
1. Write the rimes you would like your students to learn on the slips of paper. Attach the slips of the paper to the beach ball with tape. (Make sure the slips are secure!)2. Have your students from a group of four. Give one student a beach ball.
3. The student with the beach ball goes first, tossing it to another student.
4. Have the student who catches the ball take note of where his or her thumb lands. Whichever rime the thumb lands on will be the rime he or she needs to use to make a word. (If the rime is -ock, for example, the word could be rock or sock.)
5. Which ever rime the thumb lands on will be the rime they need to make a word with. EX. If their thumb lands on -ank, a word could be bank.
6. Have your students continue to toss the ball and form words in this manner for as long as you want (you should at least make sure that all six rimes have been used).
7. Crazy Eights With Word Families!
Materials:
Procedures:
8. Word Family Flip Books
As kids turn the pages of our ingenious flip books, they match letters, blends and digraphs with a specific ending sound—and build up to 300 words! 30 ten-page flip books each focus on a different word ending.
Targets standards in these areas:
• Decoding & word recognition
• Identifying rhyming words
• Initial phoneme
9. Word Family Notebook
Children match the tiles to the target patterns in the text. All the words in these captivating tales are target word family words, or easy sight words, so children can focus on developing fluent reading skills. Included Guidebook provides home and school activities, word lists, and record-keeping template.
10. Word Families Stories and Activities
Word Family Stories and Activities, Level A makes it fun and easy to practice predictable patterns within words. The engaging reproducible stories and activities help students make connections with word sounds and spelling patterns.
By learning to recognize familiar parts of words, students rapidly increase their reading vocabulary, leading to a positive reading experience. The word family words are made meaningful in the context of engaging, often humorous stories. The comprehension and vocabulary pages take students beyond word recognition, providing practice with test-type comprehension questions and word meaning.Reproducible word-list sliders encourage repeated practice of the word families, leading to increased oral reading fluency.