Free Roll and Read Beginner Word Family Worksheets

I have two kids working on word families right now and after scouring the internet for resources to help them practice in a game-like setting, I ended up just making my own. I've had to divide them into smaller files to offer for free on Teachers Pay Teachers, so I currently have two options featuring beginner word family fluency sheets for free. I also have my entire collection of 30 word families available in one easy download for $1.

These word family sheets are great for some aspects of speech therapy as well. Quinn (5) has a range of speech delays including some beginning and final sound deletions and these worksheets are great practice for her.

I made these without pictures, but there is enough space that your kids can have fun drawing a picture or two to go with the group of words.

To play, have your child roll a die and read the words in the line with the same number. Repeat as many or as few times as your child wants. We do a minimum of three rolls, but probably average five.

I am a fan of keeping these sorts of activities in page protectors in binders with other activities that work on similar skills. I keep all of my short vowel words together, because it makes it so much easier to work on the skills, because I can always flip over to one more activity if they need the work and attentions can handle it.

Click here for the beginner a,e, and i word family sheets.
Click here for the beginner o ad u word family sheets.




These are the items I use with these worksheets.



What's your favorite way to practice word families?

Freebies we've used this week: 4/29/16

The other day I started writing this totally great blog post about some of my favorite free resources around the web, but then it occurred to me how much better it would be to show you all the great stuff I'm finding instead of just the treasure troves. So from now on, if I use any freebies, I'll share them here and let you know what I thought.

I'm currently teaching Quinn (5) to read using This Reading Mama's Reading the Alphabet program. We work entirely at her pace, but she is extremely motivated and wants to practice several times a day. We worked through lesson 20 (the -ot family), lesson 21 (Qq), and lesson 22 (Jj) this week. To accommodate her rapid pace, we skip part of the activities. Quinn always uses the books, rhyming words, sight word activities, and syllable count.




Zeke and I are reviewing some word families right now, so I found these free readers from This Reading Mama. I printed the readers in black and white on regular paper and they are still cute. The freebies also include three extra pages of coordinating activities. I printed them all off, because I'll use them with Quinn soon.

Zeke is working on blends with his speech therapist, so I pulled out these blend cards from The Measured Mom. I like that they force the child to isolate and really think about the blend sound. The cards come in color, but I printed them in black and white to save on ink. Sometimes, I go through all of the cards and other times, I only grab 10 or so.


What freebies have you used or discovered this week?