California Mini-Corps Language Arts Strategies November 14, 2014

Word Families  What is a Word Family? A Word Family is a set of words that have the same letter pattern at the end.  For example, the series of words "cat, hat, mat, rat" are all members of the same word family. The similar feature is the letter patterns -at the end of the word. 

What are Some Common Word Families?  According to researchers Richard E. Wylie and Donald D. Durrell, there are 37 commonly used word families. They are as follows:  ~ ab ~ ack ~ ad ~ ag  ~ ail ~ ain ~ ake ~ ap  ~ ar ~ ash ~ at ~ ate  ~ aw ~ ay ~ ale ~ all  ~ am ~ ame ~ an ~ and  ~ ank ~ ick ~ ide ~ ig  ~ ight ~ ill ~ in ~ ine  ~ eat ~ ed< ~ ell ~ en  ~ est ~ et ~ ice ~ ing ~ ink  ~ ip ~ it ~ ock ~ og  ~ oke ~ old ~ op ~ ore  ~ ot< ~ uck ~ ug ~ um  ~ ump ~ unk

A handful of words Write down the word “make” on the wrist. Write all the words you can think of in the word family –ake. -share with a partner -share with the class

-ain  Slap thighs 3 times after the first word.  Clap hands 3 times after the second word.  So on.

Word Family House  Write all the words you can think of in the word family -ight