Spell At Family Words

Write the family ending on a card and slide different first letters in front of it so your child can read each new word. Then do the page. Check with the answer key and ask for one more family word out loud.

Circle the at family words, then trace and copy cat and hat. The directions on the page read: Circle each word in the at family. Then, trace each word and copy it on the line below. The answer key shows every answer.

Yes, both. We made it for Kindergarten spelling, 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 with word families. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Word families let a child spell many words from one ending. Words in a family share the same ending, like cat, hat and mat in the at family, so once a child knows the ending, they only need the first sound to spell a new word.

Short vowel families such as at, an, ig and op come first because they use the CVC pattern and common letters. These four pages follow that order.

The rhyming pages train the ear to hear matching sounds. These pages are about spelling: children circle words with the written ending and copy them, so the focus is on the letters.

Yes. Each of the four word family pages has an answer key showing the circled words and the traced words.

By the end of kindergarten, children write a letter for most consonant and short vowel sounds and spell simple words phonetically (CCSS L.K.2.C and L.K.2.D). Spelling three-letter CVC words like cat, hen and mop by sound is the main goal.

A CVC word has a consonant, a short vowel and a consonant, like sun, bed or pig. Children can sound out each letter, so CVC words are the first words most kindergarteners spell on their own.

Say the word slowly and stretch each sound, then ask which letter makes that sound. Start with the first sound, then the last, then the middle vowel, which is hardest to hear. The CVC spelling pages follow the same order.