Word family flip book How you can help at home: Have your child
create this fun flip book to practice reading. By Miriam Myers ,
GreatSchools Staff In this activity your child makes a book to
help him practice reading word families. What You'll Need - 6-10
3x5 index cards - Marker, pen or pencil Here's How to Do It A
word family is a group of words with a common feature or
pattern, such as at, cat, bat, hat. Discuss word families with
your child. Talk about how the ending letters are the same. Pick
a word family (Some other examples are ab, ag, an, am, ap, ar,
ed, en, et, id, ig, in, ip, it, ob, og, op, ot, ub, ug, un, ut,
um). On one of the index cards write the word family ending on
the right half side of a card. Cut the other index cards in
half. Have your child write a letter on the halves of the index
card that will make a word with the ending. Your child can also
write blends such as bl, sh, ch and gr. Staple the half index
cards on the left side of the index card with the word family on
it. Now your ch