Building reading comprehension is an important skill for students to learn. This ACK words literacy center contains hands on activities to practice reading single words as well as reading simple sentences.

What is Included:

• 1 ACK word mat
• 1 ACK sentence mat
• Picture cards for matching with each mat

To complete this activity, students will read the word or sentence on each mat and then match the pictures to the correct word or sentence.

Ways to Use:

• Simply lay the images on top of the word or sentence.
• Use hook and loop fasteners to attach the images.
• Use a baking sheet and magnets to attach the images.

Students will love the hands on nature of this activity. They are able to manipulate the images for a tactile approach to demonstrate their learning. These literacy activities allow students to practice the target words in context of sentences as well as in isolation.

When to Use:

• Literacy Center
• Morning Work
• Reading Center
• Small Group Activity
• Hands On Assessment

This activity is low prep. The mats just need to be printed out. The cards need to be printed and cut out. The activity can be laminated if desired for durability. Once created, this resource can be used over and over.

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Do you need a fun way to practice ACK words and words with ending digraphs? These foldable books provide students will a fun way to practice and target words words with digraphs. These mini books are great for independent reading practice and small group activities.

There are 8 ACK word family foldable books. Students will practice reading ACK words, writing ACK words and reading simple sentences with ACK words. The books are differentiated to allow students on different levels to be successful.

Foldable Books Included:

• I Can Read ACK Words with 3 words (2)
• I Can Read ACK Words with 6 words (1)
• My ACK Word Book (1)
• I Can Write ACK Words (2)
• I Can Read (2)

These mini books allow students to practice reading, writing and identifying ACK words in isolation as well as providing practice with reading words in the context of a sentence with the I Can Read books. Students will stay engaged with learning new words and will have a book to take home and review with parents.

Ways to Use:

• Early Finishers
• Homework
• Independent Work
• Small Group Activity
• Sub Plans

These foldable books provide an alternative way for students to practice the focus skill. These no prep books are an easy to use, print and go activity that can be used as early finishers, homework or sub plans.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading ACK Words
• Writing ACK Words
• Identifying ACK Words

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Practice reading fluency and reading comprehension with this hands on ACK word family sentence and picture matching activity. This phonics based reading activity contains decodable sentences and pictures to match and sort that contain the ending digraph.

What is Included:

• A set of sentences cards with ACK words and simple sight words.
• A set of picture cards that match each sentence.

In this literacy center, students will read the sentences and then match the sentence with the correct picture. This will make a great literacy center for students learning the ACK words and practicing reading comprehension.

Ways to Use

• Morning Buckets
• Literacy Center
• Small Group Instruction
• Matching Game
• Partner Activity

These simple sentence and picture cards allow students to have a hands on way to practice reading comprehension as well as practice words in the ACK words. They will have fun and stay engaged as they complete this activity. Students can work alone or with a partner to complete this literacy activity.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading ACK Words
• Reading Sight Words
• Reading Comprehension

This phonics center is low prep. The teacher simply needs to print each page, cut apart and laminate for a reusable center. The pieces can be stored inside a pencil box for easy set up and storage.

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Practice reading ACK words with these word wall cards. They make a great display for a phonics word wall as well as within a writing center. Students will enjoy using these cards to practice reading words with ending digraphs.

What is Included:

• ACK Words Cards

This set contains ending digraph cards for the ACK word family. Half of the cards have solid black letters and the other half have the rime highlighted in red, which allow students to easily blend onset and rime to read each word.

Ways to Use:

• Traditional word wall cards
• Cut along the middle line to create simple matching puzzles
• Use as reference cards in a writing center
• Use as cards with a sand or salt tray
• Use as flash cards

These cards are versatile, allowing students a variety of ways to practice reading words. The bold, easy to recognize pictures will aid students with learning unfamiliar words.

When to Use:

• Word Wall Cards
• Literacy Center
• Writing Center
• Flash Cards
• Small Group Activities
• Morning Tubs or Baskets

These cards make a great addition to any literacy or writing center by providing students with practice reading words that all contain the same rime.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading words with ending digraphs.
• Blending onset and rime

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Practice ACK family word work with these fun no prep worksheets. This packet focuses on the short a word family ACK and provides students with a variety of ways to practice this phonics skill. Students will practice reading, writing, matching and spelling each word. This packet includes both CVCC words and CCVCC words.

What is in this packet:

• Word Family Posters
• Cut and Paste Worksheets
• ABC Order Worksheet
• Handwriting Pages
• Spell and Write Page
• Read and Circle Page
• Stamping Pages for Spelling
• Fill in the Sentence Pages
• Seek and Find Page
• Matching Game
• Follow the Picture Maze
• Real and Nonsense Word Sort
• Word Search
• Word Family Story
• Answer Keys

With these worksheets, students will practice reading words in isolation and in context of sentences and stories. Students will spell ACK words using picture cues and letter prompts. Students will be engaged learning with the variety of activities included in this worksheet set.

When to Use

• Early Finishers
• CVCC Word Work Center
• Literacy Center
• Independent Work Packet
• Homework

Each worksheets is no prep. They just need to print out the worksheets and give to students to complete.

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This ACK words decodable reader packet contains three emergent readers that focus on ACK words. These emergent readers provide students practice reading words with ending digraphs

The three books are titled:

• Jack's Pets
• I Can Pack A Sack
• In My Backpack

I Can Pack My Sack is a special reader where students will draw or cut out pictures from magazines to fill their sack. They will write the word of what they packed on the line. Books with plain lines and primary lines are available.

Each digraph book includes a cover page and 5 or more pages for students to read. The stories and sentences in each book contains simple sight words and the target word family, making them easy for beginning readers to have success with making and reading each book.

When to Use:

• Literacy Center
• Small Group Activity
• Independent Practice
• Homework
• Reading Center

These books can also be made by the teacher, laminated and placed in a classroom library or reading center for students to read over and over. If students create their own book, it will be a perfect practice reader for students to take home and share and practice their reading skills with parents.

Skills Assessed:

• Following directions
• Reading ACK words in context
• Reading simple sight words

Each book is easy to put together. Students simply need to color or complete the activity on each page, cut the pages in half and then staple the pages together, making sure the cover page is on top, and for the stories with sequential pages, those will need to be in the correct order.

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Need a fun hands on way to practice reading and recognizing ACK words? These sorting activities provide a great way to practice these words with ending digraphs in an engaging literacy center.

There are three different sorting activities to practice learning to read and recognize ACK words.

Sorts Include

• Sort words that are part of the ACK family from words that are not part of the ACK family.
• Sort pictures that are part of the ACK family from pictures that are not part of the ACK family.
• Sort between real and nonsense ACK words.

These low prep sorting activities are easy to create. Simply print the pages, cut out the sorting cards and laminate if desired. By laminating this literacy activity can be used over and over if laminated.

How to Use:

• Create a file folder sorting activity
• Add magnets to the pieces and create a cookie tray sorting activity
• Place in a box for a simple sorting activity

Ways to Use:

• Early Finishers
• Independent Work
• Small Group Activity
• Literacy Center

Skills Assessed:

• Reading Words with Ending Digraphs
• Scissor Skills
• Following Directions

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This packet contains clip cards for the ACK word family. These clip cards are a great fine motor literacy center or as a Kindergarten phonics center. There are 3 different card types for each picture with several different representation of the words.

Types of Clip Cards

• The first set of cards have the picture with the beginning sound or blend for the at word and students must clip the correct word family ending to complete the word. For example, the card will have a picture of a hat with h _ _ under the picture. The choices the student will choose from will be like at, ag or am.
• The second set of cards have the picture with no word and the student must pick the correct word from a choice of 3 different words with the same beginning sound but with different ending word families. For example, students will see a picture of a hat and must choose the correct answer from these choices: hat, ham or han.
• The third set of cards have the picture with no word and the student must pick the correct word from a choice of 3 different words with the same beginning and ending sound. Only the vowel is different. For example, students will see a picture of a hat and much choose the correct answer from these choices: hat, hit, or hot.

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This product includes four ACK word flower craft templates. This flower craftivity is great for spring themed ending digraph activity or center. This craft is perfect for introducing or review words with the CK digraph.

What is Included:

• Two flower templates for identifying ACK family words
• Two flower templates for reading and matching ACK family words to pictures.

This resource includes 4 ACK words flower template. Each craft has six different petals with words and pictures to help introduce or review the ACK family. Use during the spring time to create a fun themed bulletin board or anytime for a quick and fun activity for students who like to complete hands on activities and crafts.

There are two ways to use this product:

• Simply print this paper, allow the students to color, cut out and glue into a flower on colored construction paper.
• Print the flower pattern onto colored card stock, cut and laminate. These flowers can be used in center activities. Combine this with flowers of other word families to have students sort by word families.

When to Use:

• Literacy Centers
• Create a hallway, wall, door or bulletin board display
• Art/Craft Activity
• Independent Work
• Small Group Activity
• Homework

These flower craft templates are a no prep option for teachers. All the teacher needs to do is print off the craft page and give it to students. The teacher just needs to make sure each child has something to color with, scissors, glue and paper to glue their flower craft onto.

Skills Assessed

• Identifying ACK words
• Reading ACK words
• Scissors Skills
• Following Directions

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Practice reading fluency with these ACK word family fluency activities. Students will read simple sentences with ending digraphs in word, sentence or story form. This allows for students to practice reading the target words in isolation and in context.

Fluency Activities

• Word Fluency Strips
• Sentence Strips
• Sentence Fluency Page
• Reading Passage and Comprehension Questions
• Sentence Pyramids

This resource contains both no prep and low prep activities for practicing reading fluency. The sentence pyramids and reading strips are designed to be cut apart for students to use, but can remain on the full page if desired.

When to Use:

• Literacy Centers
• Small Group Activities
• Independent Practice
• Homework

This fluency packet can be completed by students independently or with teacher assistance in small groups or one on one. The different activities provide a fun and engaging way for teachers to practice reading fluency with students.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading ACK words in isolation.

• Reading ACK words in sentences.

• Reading ACK words in a story.

• Fluency with ACK words in various contexts

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Practice reading and writing ACK word family words with these phonics dice games for ending digraphs. Students will roll the dice then color, trace or write the target word.

What is Included:

• 3 dice templates
• 7 dice game boards

By having several different game mats, these dice games are differentiated for students who need more support can be successful as well. These games make great literacy centers or phonics stations.

Ways to Use:

• Use the tracing pages to trace the word rolled (single player)
• Use the grid pages to color the word rolled (single player)
• Create a graph by rolling the dice X number of times and then filling in the blank grid squares. (single player)
• Three in a Row: Using the grid paper with words, students take turns rolling the dice and coloring the words in the grid. The first player with 3 words in a row wins. (partner game)

There are a variety of ways to use these dice games from single player games to partner games. This allows teachers a variety of choices when using these games in their classrooms.

Skills Assessed

• Blending Onset and Rime
• Reading words with ending digraphs
• Writing words with ending digraphs
• Spelling words with ending digraphs