AGE Word Family Sorting Activities

AGE word family sorts in which students separate words like cage and wage from other words such as cape and mule, and real words from nonsense words such as zage and bage.
Grades
Preschool–Junior Kindergarten, Grade 1
Pages
5
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Updated Aug 03, 2024

Subject
Phonics, Language Development, ELA
Topic
Phonics, Word Families
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Activities
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This AGE Word Sorting Activity is a great resource for your students to practice recognizing AGE words and pictures in isolation. This sorting activity includes three different sorts for students to categorize AGE family words in an engaging literacy centre.

Sorts Included in this Literacy Resource

  • Sort words that are included in the AGE family from words that are not included in the AGE family.

  • Sort pictures that represents words in the AGE family from pictures that represent words not in the AGE family.

  • Sort between real and nonsense AGE words.

The teacher can easily differentiate these sorting activities for students who need more or less support to be successful in completing these sorts.

How to Use:

  • The teacher can create a file folder sorting activity

  • The teacher can add magnets to the picture pieces and create a cookie tray sorting activity

  • The teacher can place the cards and mats in a box for a simple sorting activity

To assemble file folder activities, position the two sorting mats on each side of a file folder. Use the word and image cards for sorting onto the mats. Adding hook and loop fasteners to both the cards and mats ensures the cards remain positioned once sorted. For the cookie tray sorting, attach magnets to each card's back. Lay the mats next to each other on the tray, and the magnets will secure the cards to the mats. These methods provide an interactive literacy station that will captivate your kindergartners and Grade 1 students as they learn and practice AGE family words.

Ways to Use:

  • Early Finishers

  • Independent Work

  • Small Group Activity

  • Literacy Centre

  • Morning Work

These sorting activities require minimal preparation. The teacher needs to just print each of the pages on card stock, cut the picture sorting cards, and then laminate them if so desired to create a reusable literacy activity.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Recognize words in the AGE family

  • Tell real AGE words from nonsense words

Skills covered

  • Word family recognition — sorting AGE words from other long-vowel words

  • Decoding — reading each word to decide whether it is real or nonsense

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • AGE word family

  • CVCe words

  • Real and nonsense words

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