AN Word Family Dice Games is the perfect way to practice onset and rime as well as reading and writing CVC words. These games make great literacy centers or phonics stations.

Students will roll the dice then color, trace or write the target word. These games are differentiated for students who need more support can be successful as well.

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)

Skills Assessed

• Blending Onset and Rime
• Reading CVC Words
• Tracing and Writing CVC Words
• Spelling CVC Words

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Practice reading fluency with these AN word family fluency activities. Students will read simple sentences with CVC words in word, sentence or story form. This allows for students to practice reading the CVC 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 AN words in isolation.
• Reading AN words in sentences.
• Reading AN words in a story.
• Fluency with AN words in various contexts

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AN Family Word Wall and Puzzle Cards

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AN Word Family Flower Craft

Practice reading AN words with these word wall cards. They make a great display for a phonics word wall as well as within a writing center.

What is Included:

• AN Word Family Cards

This set contains CVC and CCVC cards for the AN 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, providing students will practice reading words that all contain the same rime.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading CVC and CCVC words
• Blending onset and rime

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Word Family Sentence and Picture Match

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Practice reading fluency and reading comprehension with this hands on AN word family sentence and picture matching activity. This phonics based reading activity contains decodable sentences and pictures to match and sort.

What is Included:

• A set of sentences cards with AN 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 AN word family and practicing reading comprehension.

Ways to Use

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

These simple sentence and picture cards all students to have a hands on way to practice reading comprehension as well as practice words in the AN word family. 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 AN 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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Word Family Clip Cards

Word Family Matching Mats

Word Family Flowers

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

What is Included:

• 1 AN word mat
• 1 AN 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.

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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Word Family Flowers

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Word Family Word Wall Cards

Practice identifying and reading AN family words with this fun flower craftivity.

This flower craft can be used to introduce or review CVC and CCVC words in the AN family.

What is Included:

• One flower template for identifying AN family words
• One flower template for reading and matching AN family words to pictures.

This resource includes two AN word family flower template. Each craft has six different petals with words and pictures to help introduce or review the AN 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:

• Simple 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 of 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 AN words
• Reading AN words
• Scissors Skills
• Following Directions

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Word Family Family Flowers

This AN Family decodable reader packet contains three emergent readers that focus on the words in the AN word family. Work with color words and comparing bigger and smaller with these books.

The three books are titled:

• The Van (Color Words)
• Dan
• Bigger or Smaller

Each word family 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 AN 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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Word Family Clip Cards

CVC Sentences

CVC Writing Center

Practice AN family word work with these fun no prep worksheets. This packet focuses on the short a word family AN 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 CVC words and CCVC 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 AN 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
• CVC 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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