Make practicing reading fun with these super cute, free printable pumpkin Word Family Sliders! Learning to read rhyming words is the first step towards learning to read. This pumpkin printable is perfect for preschool, pre k, kindergarten, and first grade students to make learning fun. Each word family printable has not only the word, but a picture clue too!
Word Family Sliders
This fun, free pumpkin printable contains 25 short vowel words for children to practice reading. We love ways to make learning fun and these super cute word family sliders are sure to be a hit! We have a template in color or black and white to choose from. This word family activity is great for preschoolers, kindergarteners, and grade 1 students. Plus I love that they have a picture to connect with the words.
Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love this handy word family worksheet. Use this in a pumpkin theme, p is for pumpkin, fall themed activity, literacy center in your classroom, or as extra practice reading. No matter how you use it you will love this fun educational activity for kids.
Word Family Slides Printables
Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> Download <<. The pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template pages. Print the pages in color or in black and white. You can always have students colour the blackline version which not only allows you to save on printer ink costs, but is fun for strengthening fine motor skills too. Children can use crayons, markers, or colored pencils to decorate their pumpkins.
I suggest printing on cardstock to make them easier for young hands to manipulate. Cut out the pumpkins, letter trip, and picture strips. Cut slits in the pumpkins and insert the slider strips as shown below by threading the word or picture strips through the bottom slit from the back, then slide it into the top slit from the front.
Word Family Activities
Developing confidence with word families is super helpful for young children learning to read. It helps them understand how sounds are put together and how we can manipulate the sounds to quickly make new words and meanings.
Switching out the beginning letter lets them practice this skill even if they only have a short time, or if they have a short attention span. These sweet pumpkins are great for fall and they also encourage kids to use their fine motor skills.
Word Family Printable
Children slide the word and picture strips up and down until the word matches the picture. Make sure children read the words out loud as they make them.
Another option is to make a word (but not say it) and then ask your child to find the picture; or give them a picture and ask them to make the correct word.
The following word families are included in this reading activity:
- at words – hat, cat, rat, bat, sat
- in words – pin, bin, tin, fin, win
- et words – vet, net, jet, wet, pet
- op words – hop, top, cop, mop, pop
- ug words – bug, rug, hug, jug, mug
Word Family Activities
Looking for more fun, free printable word family printables to make learning fun for preschoolers, prek, kindergartners, and first graders? You will love these clever ideas and resources:
- Super cute Snowman Word Family Spinners
- Christmas Phonics Activity for working on phonics skills with word families!
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- Turkey Word Family Sort
- Word Family Sliders Free – lots of styles to print in color or black and white
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- Word Family Flowers Cut & Paste Worksheets
- Transportation Word Family Slides Printables with blends
- Hershey Kiss Word Family Activity
- Free printable Rhyming Word Families Kindergarten
- Lion Words Family Printable – read and clip
- Planting Carrot CVC Words worksheets
- Carrot Word Family Worksheets
- Blowing Bubbles Word Family Activities
Pumpkin Printables
- Free pumpkin activity printables that uses Pumpkin Candy to Count and Trace
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- Pumpkin Letter Tracing – use with a dry erase marker or playdough
- Super cute parts of a pumpkin craft to help kids learn the parts of a pumpkin
- Improve reading with this fun Word Family Pumpkin Activities for Kindergarten
- Fall Addition Sticker Worksheets are a fun, hands-on math worksheet
- Pumpkin Shape Matching Game to practice shape recognition with kids
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- These super cute Pumpkin Alphabet puzzles allow children to practice letter tracing as well as working on beginning sounds
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- Make practicing math fun with this super cute, Pumpkin Patch Math Game
- These fun pumpkin addition task cards are super cute and make practicing fun for kids
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- Grab this free Pumpkin Life Cycle Worksheet pack to learn about the life cycle of pumpkins
- Trace and Erase to practice again with this handy Pumpkin Letter Tracing printable
- Super cute pumpkin pie counting activity – pile on the “whip cream”
- Practice making shapes with these pumpkin shapes playdough mats
- Grab these Pumpkin Addition Worksheets for a no prep math activity for young learners
- This find the letter free pumpkin activity printables
- Adorable Pumpkin preschool pie craft for practicing counting!
- Pumpkin Pie Number Sense Activities for Preschoolers
- Hands on Pumpkin Shape Games for Preshoolers
- Work on One to One Correspondence Kindergarten with this pumpkin pie themed math activity
- Work on Number Bonds to 10 with these pumpkin themed math worksheets for kindergarten and grade 1
- Kids will love this Pumpkin Phonics activity where they will work on beginning sounds to put together these alphabet puzzles.
- Trace numbers and work on 1:1 correspondence with this free pumpkin activity printables
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