word families

Word Families

Free word family worksheets and printables for students learning to read. Word families are groups of words that share the same root or base word and have similar patterns or structures. By focusing on word families, such as "-at" (cat, hat, sat) or "-ig" (big, pig, wig), educators can...

Rhyming Word Games for Kindergarten

Teaching children how to recognize rhyming words is an important step in the journey to reading. Beyond understanding similarities of word-families, young students should be able to identify words that rhyme based on the ending sounds they hear as they say the words aloud. If your students are...

Reading Printables

Kindergarten is the perfect time to begin teaching children to read. Once students have an understanding of letter names and letter sounds, it's time to learn how to start sounding out words. We have a huge selection of phonics printables as well as sight word activities you can use to...