Word Families Teaching Resources
Save time on your English lesson planning with word families activities, worksheets, games, and more printable and digital teaching resources for primary school teachers! Put a fresh spin on your reading lessons with ready-made resources designed to engage and delight your students. This collection of teaching resources from Teach Starter’s teacher team has options to help you cut down on the time-consuming task of lesson planning and help your primary class –all aligned with the Australian English curriculum. With editable options for many of the collection’s resources, save yourself a tonne of time with these ready-made ways to explore word families.
New to this section of the English curriculum or just looking for a fresh way to approach the topic? Take a peek at this primer from our reading experts!
What Are Word Families?
Word families are groups of words that have a common feature or pattern. They are often used in teaching reading and spelling, as they can help our students learn words more easily by recognising the patterns within them. For example, the word family for the word “run” would include "bun", "sun", "fun", etc. Word families can also be useful for teaching vocabulary, as words within a word family tend to have similar meanings and can be used in similar contexts, such as "run", "runner", and "running".
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 1
A sorting activity to practise identifying word families.
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Learn to Read Short O - Daily Phonics for Kids
Teach your students to read short O words with a daily digital phonics instructional slide deck.
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Find and Sort Active Game
An active game that allows students to practise sorting word families.
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Word Family Sorting Cards
A set of 36 sorting cards to reinforce word families and rhyming with your students.
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Word Family Worksheet Pack - CVC Words
Consolidate your students' understanding of onset and rime with this set of 20 worksheets.
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Word Families Sorting Activity – Short O
Use these word families flashcards to help familiarise your students with words that contain the short o vowel sound.
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Learn to Read Short I - Daily Phonics for Kids
Teach your students to read short I words with a daily digital phonics teaching presentation.
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Learn to Read Short E - Daily Phonics for Kids
Immerse your students in the short 'e' vowel sound with this comprehensive series of phonics activities.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 3
A sorting activity using word families.
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Word Family Pumpkin Sort
Enhance your phonics lessons with a pumpkin-themed word family game.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 4
A sorting activity to practice word families.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 2
A word family sorting activity.
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Learn to Read Short U - Daily Phonics for Kids
Use our week-long Interactive Short U Word Building Interactive to teach daily phonics lessons for beginning readers!
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Short I Word Families Flashcards
Use these word families flashcards to help familiarise your students with words that contain the short i vowel sound.
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Rhyming Dominoes
Dominoes using rhyming words.
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Word Family Paper Cups | Hands-On Phonics
Find out how fun and easy it is to make word family paper cups. Use these clever cups as a hands-on learning tool to accelerate learning in early years phonics. Plus, find other essential word family teaching resources.