Word Families and Vocabulary ELA Worksheets | Snowman Theme

Here is a fun product to add to your winter ELA curriculum. Whether your 3rd graders or 4th graders use these 10 worksheets for practice or review, they’ll enjoy the snowman theme as they focus on word families, spelling, and vocabulary building. You’ll love the Print and Go format, and the variety of skills covered throughout. Each worksheet presents a different style of learning, meaning there is something for most learners. They’ll strengthen their skills in building word families, writing sentences with new vocabulary terms, solving a cryptogram, creating a wordsearch, and identifying synonyms and antonyms. What’s equally beneficial is that you can use these worksheets at anytime throughout the 3 months of the winter season. They’re a perfect learning tool for substitutes to give your learners or as a reinforcement homework assignment. Use them for small group or whole class learning, as well as independent seat work. For learners who have mastered the skills presented in this product, the final two pages are meant as a challenge. In them, learners will use the word families to identify additional words, homophones, onomatopoeias, and homographs. Additionally, they will be challenged to write sentences using the word family words that rhyme, including several of the words in one sentence. Most of the worksheets are available in a color version, while all worksheets are available in a black & white format. For your convenience, an answer key is provided. Take a look at the details of each worksheet below.

WORKSHEET 1: using the letters provided, learners will create words in the “-ail, -eat, -ight, -ound” families.

WORKSHEET 2: learners will write the definition and dictionary guide words for 5 word family words.

WORKSHEET 3: learners will write sentences that include words from the word families.

WORKSHEET 4: using the word family words, learners will create a wordsearch for a partner to solve.

WORKSHEET 5: learners will solve a cryptogram to identify the hidden word family words.

WORKSHEET 6: learners will determine if the provided word family words are synonyms or antonyms. Then they will color the mitten pair based on the color key.

WORKSHEET 7: learners will use the words in the word bank to identify a synonym or antonym for the provided words.

WORKSHEET 8: learners will decipher word family words based on the groups of mixed up letters.

WORKSHEET 9: learners will use word family words to identify homophones, onomatopoeias, and homographs.

WORKSHEET 10: using word family words, learners will write rhyming sentences.

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