FREE Printable Kindergarten Word Family Sliders Activity

These word family sliders are a fun way for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students to work on their fine motor skills while gaining confidence reading. Practice reading word famlies for kindergarten with this set of 20 word family printables! Each one has a different theme and words on a different word family for kids! Simply print word family worksheets pdf file to print in color or blackline and have fun with this engaging word family activity.

Word Family Sliders

My Kindergartners always love the word family sliders we make together. This hands-on word family craft helps them continue to work on fine motor skills (important for strengthening hands to write letters), and gain confidence reading kindergarten word families. There are over 20 word family sliders free included in these word family slides printables including ug, ig, eep, ip, un, en, at, ot, ank, ill, ar, an, ish, ite, ail, ox, ed, op, ate, and oon. You can print them in black and white and allow students to color the slider to decorate, or print them in color on cardstock for a reusable way for grade 1 and kindegarteners to practice reading word families.

Word family Printables

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _____ <<. The kindergarten word families pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template.

Word Family Activity

These are so easy to use! Just pick the word family you want to work on. Print in color or in black and white. If you use the black and white word family activity use crayons, markers, or colored pencils to colour the picture. Then cut out the image, letter strip, and slot in the picture. Slide the letter strip in the picture, slide, and read!

There are 20 different sliders to make including the following word families: ug, ig, eep, ip, un, en, at, ot, ank, ill, ar, an, ish, ite, ail, ox, ed, op, ate, and oon.

• at word family – cat, sat, rat, bat, hat
• an word family – can, ran, fan, pan, man
• ar word family – jar, far, car, star, tar
• en word family – hen, men, pen, ten
• ed word family – bed, red, fed, led, wed
• ip word family – ship, dip, hat, tip, lip
• ig word family – pig, wig, fid, dig, big
• ot word family – pot, not, hot, cot
• op word family – mop, hop, top, pop
• ox word family – fox, box, pox, sox (baseball team)
• ug word family – bug, hug, tug, rug, mug
• un word family – sun, bun, nun, run, fun
• oon word family – spoon, moon, noon, soon, racoon
• eep word family – sheep, peep, leep, keep, jeep
• ank word family – bank, rank, blank, sank, tank
• ill word family – drill, bill, gill, fill, hill
• ish word family – fish, dish, wish, swish
• ite word family – kite, bite, site, white, mite
• ail word family – pail, mail, fail, nail, hail
• ate word family – plate, crate, late, bate, gate

Word Family Sliders FREE

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