CVC Word Families for Beginning Readers: Stamp it, Make it, Trace it, and Write it

This CVC unit is engaging for students as they practice reading and learning the short vowel sounds while students cut and make the words, trace the words, write the words, and stamp out the words. 

Reading short vowel / rhyming words is an introduction to reading.  Repetitive practice of reading these words is also another fundamental practice to help students read. In this unit, students will practice word families that have the same ending.  Teach students that word families rhyme and only have a different beginning sound.  For each word family, students will practice making, tracing, writing, or stamping six different words. 

Some of the words are proper nouns or names given to people or pets.  There are also nonsensical words that are not real. The purpose of these words is to teach how to sound out words only within the same word family.  

File contains the following word family worksheets: ad, an, at, ed, en, et, in, ip, it, og, op, ot, ug, un, ut. It also includes all the letters needed to cut out for the "make it" worksheets.

What's included for the word families:

Short a

at family (mat, fat, cat, sat, hat, and pat)

an family (fan, ran, man, can, tan, and pan)

ad family (mad, sad, bad, dad, had, and pad)

Short e

ed family (Ned, bed, Ted, red, ped, and ded)

en family (ten, men, den, Ben, hen, and pen)

et family (set, met, bet, let, get, and pet)

Short i

in family (bin, win, sin, fin, tin, and pin)

ip family (hip, rip, tip, lip, zip, and sip)

it family (bit, kit, fit, sit, hit, and pit)

Short o

og family (log, hog, dog, bog, fog, and jog)

op family (hop, top, pop, cop, bop, and mop)

ot family (lot, hot, rot, dot, pot, and got)

Short u

ug family (dug, rug, bug, hug, mug, and jug)

un family (run, sun, nun, fun, pun, and bun)

ut family (but, cut, nut, hut, rut, and gut)

There are 38 pages of activities included in this unit.