Children will have fun sounding out word family blends using these super cute word family sliders. These word family activities have a fun transportation theme to engage kids in kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too. These word family printables include more complex words in this initial blends activity. Simply print pdf file with blending and segmenting activities to practice sounding out and reading words.
Family Blends
After your kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students have mastered simple 3-letter word families such as rat, pin, and jug – it is time for word families with blends! This transportation printables is a cute blends activity that you can print in color or in black and white to have children color with crayons, colored pencils, or markers. These word family printables allow students to slide different initial blends to sound out the word. There is even a cute picture to serve as a clue and to double-check they read the word correctly.
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Word Families
Beginning Consonant Blends
Consonant blends are exactly what they sound like! Two (or sometimes three) consonants standing together but although we blend them we can still hear both individual sounds. The blends included in these transport sliders are: br, cl, cr, dr, fl, gl, pl, sk, sl, st, str and tr.
Consonant Digraphs
Consonant digraphs are two consonants standing together that become one sound. This pack includes ch, sh, th and wh.
Other beginnings
Some word families don’t have many words starting with blends or digraphs so for the ‘en’ word family I got a little creative and included 4-letter words that don’t strictly fit this pattern. So as well as ‘when’ and ‘then’ there is also ‘oven,’ ‘oxen’ and ‘amen.’
Word Blending Slide Printable
Print these free transport word family sliders in either color or black and white!
To prepare
- Print these free Transport Word Family Sliders.
- Print off either the color or black and white pictures and word sliders. Use card stock or laminate for durability.
- Cut slits in the pictures using the dotted lines as guides.
- Thread 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
- Children match the pictures to the words by sliding both strips up and down till they match.
- Encourage children to read the words out loud as they find 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.
Word Family Printable
These free transport word sliders are brilliant for encouraging children to practice their reading!
Word Family Activities
How to teach word famlies kindergarten then grab some of these fun word family activities and free printables to make practicing FUN!
- Dab a Dot Mazes Word Family Worksheets or this Airplane Word Family Worksheets with Do a Dot Markers
- Cooking up Rhymes with Word Family Printables activity or this Lion Rhyming Word Family Activity
- Adorable Word Family Worksheets are a fun, NO PREP way for kids to practice!
- Flower Word Family Match or this bee rhyming words activity
- Get outside with this Sidewalk Word Family activity or this Word family Bump Game
- Help kids read word families with these clever Word Family Clip Cards printable
- We have Word Family Sliders with context clues or Transportation Word Family Sliders to learn blends.
- Ready. Set. Learn! These film strip themed word family printable are a clever visual for learning
- This Board Game helps kids practice “in” words or this Spring Bubble Word Family Sort
- ⛄ Snowman Word Family Printables activity
- 💗 Hershey Kiss Word Family Worksheets and chocolate kiss sorting word family activity
- 🌸 Cut-and-paste Spring flowers word family printable are a fun way to practice
- 🐥 Easter eggs word family activity and Easter Word Family Worksheets
- 🗽 Patriotic CVC Word
- 🎃Pumpkin Word Family Printables sliders or practice word patterns. Pumpkin pie word family activity
- 🦃 Spin and Cover turkey games for learning word families or this Turkey Word Family Feather Sort
- 🍁 Give the turkeys his feathers by sorting the turkey word family activities for early learner
- 🎄 Christmas Tree Word Family for Kindergarteners
- More word family activities
Blends Transportation Word Family Sliders
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