Short E Word Families

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.

Add a first letter to the en, et and ed endings and write each new word. A word family is a group of words that end with the same letters and rhyme. These families have the short e sound. The directions on the page read: Read the word family ending and the word under the picture. Then, add each letter to the ending and write the new word on the lines. The page opens with a worked example, and 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.

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 six word family pages have an answer key.