Monday, October 5, 2009

Word Families



This week in readers workshop, we are working on our next reading strategy..."word families". Word families (sometimes called phonograms or chunks) can help our students figure out patterns within words. Once students are able to recognize these one syllable word patterns, it makes it easier for them to sound out/decode longer words.

Today we are focusing on the the word family "at". By adding letters to "at", how many new words can you and your child come up with? Here's a picture of some of the words we came up with today.

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