Word Family Cards
Word Family Cards
“Lump, bump, slump, plump…” This is a list of words in the “ump” word family. Broaden your students’ vocabularies and boost their literacy skills by challenging them to do the same with these word family cards. Perfect for individual or a whole-class activity, these word family cards make language study fun!
Drag a card off the deck and double-click it to flip it over. You can flip it back by double-clicking again. The set has a total of 148 cards and has 4 cards for each of the 37 word families. Use the pencil tool to write down words or circle cards. Use the eraser tool to erase pencil markings. The trash can tool clears the entire board, including the cards.
Here are some activities and games to play with these word family cards:
- Flip over a card. Challenge students to come up with as many words as possible for that family. Make it a competition by having students work in groups. Each group has to write down their list. The group with the most (real) words wins!
- Flip over a card. Challenge students to write a poem using as many words in the word family as possible.
- Flip over 8 cards. Ask students to find similarities and differences between the cards and the sounds in the families. For example, two of the cards share the same vowel sound.
- Flip over 8 cards. Ask students to list one word per word family. Then, have students put the words in alphabetical order.
Working with word families builds students’ literacy skills related to rhyming, spelling, and reading.
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