At and An Short Read

Read the example together, then have your child say each new word before writing it. Ask for one more word in each family out loud. Check with the answer key.

Read the story Mia and the Cat, circle the at and an words and list them. A word family is a group of words that end with the same letters, like big, dig and wig. This page uses the at family and the an family. The directions on the page read: Read the story. Circle every word that ends in at or an. Then, write each word one time in its list. The answer key shows every answer.

Yes, both. We made it for 1st Grade word families, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A word family is a group of words that end with the same letters and rhyme, like cat, hat and bat. The ending is called a rime.

Short a: at, an, ap. Short e: en, et, ed. Short i: ig, ip, id. Short o: og, ot, ock. Short u: ug, un, uck. The sort adds ake and ar. Newer pages use at, an, ig, og and un in sentences, a short read, word wheels and flip books.

Once a child can read an ending like ug, they can read bug, hug and rug by changing only the first letter. That is faster than sounding out every letter.

Yes. All fifteen word family pages have an answer key.