It seems like Word Families are the focus in kindergarten right now, at least at our urban school. Cute Word Family hats parade up and down our halls on the heads of our kinders. Even in my pre-k class I have a student currently working on word families! This exception to the rule came to me as a fluent reader! By fluent I mean I handed this four-year-old a Curious George book the other day at nap time and the whole thing was read, no help, the whole book!

Since moving down to pre-k three years ago, Word Families, haven’t really been on my radar. Well suffice it to say they are now! I use them not because this child needs help reading but to provide practice with word manipulation. You know changing letters to make a new word.

That said, I have been updating and redoing my Word Family Unit. Eeek! So exciting, I truly love creating these units and it’s so rewarding to watch them have a positive effect on my students’ learning.  I really prefer to upload units as a finished project but I haven’t posted anything new in a while and don’t want you guys to think I have vanished. I haven’t, just been uber busy like the rest of you.

        Our Word Family Unit will consist of the following for each word family we upload.

• Teacher Reader – Full Color

• Student Reader – Black & White, prints 2 readers at a time

• Word List – to use for homework

• Circle & Write

• Alphabetical Order

• Configuration

• Finish the Word

• Word Search

Pages that I print as a double sided worksheet are in one file. For example, Circle & Write and Alphabetical Order I make a double sided worksheet so they will be in one file. You don’t have to use them this way, it will just help you find them more easily if you know how I created them.

As always we encourage you to make these printables work for you and your students.

Enjoy!
Kasey