CVC - Word Families

Word families are words that share spelling and sound patterns, also know as phonograms. Teaching children word patterns helps with decoding and spelling in addition to, building phonemic awareness - a key to success in reading. Last week we explored words such as 'cat,' 'fat' 'bat,' 'rat,' 'mat,' 'sat,' and 'that' which are all examples of words that are in the '-at' family. Through this experience, the children were able to see how many words looked alike at the end, and sounded alike too — a valuable discovery about our alphabetic writing system! A special thank you to @youclevermonkey for these wonderful interactive learning mats. These simple (yet very effective) resources encouraged an active, kinesthetic and creative means to exploring our 'at' word family - which truly engaged ALL of our learners! It was a fun, independent, tactile experience, that proved to be a great way to consolidate their knowledge during our literacy groups!

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