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 families worksheets
Kids will feel successful and confident as they read these word families by themselves
Word Families for Kindergarten
I’ve also included the full color options if you would prefer. In that case, I recommend printing on carstock for durability 😉
Word Family Worksheets
Focus on practicing individual word families with these free printable worksheet packs!
- Free Printable ad word family worksheets
- -it Word Family Worksheets
- Cute -ed Word Family Worksheets
- Printable –at word family worksheets with pictures
- –ab word family worksheets
Word family activities
- How to teach word famlies kindergarten
- Dab a Dot Mazes Word Family Worksheets
- Airplane Word Family Worksheets with Do a Dot Markers
- Cooking up Rhymes with Word Family Printables activity
- Lion Rhyming Word Family Activity
- Adorable Word Family Worksheets are a fun, NO PREP way for kids to practice!
- Flower Word Family Match
- Free Printable ad word family worksheets
- 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. Both are available in color or black and white.
- Ready. Set. Learn! These film strip themed word family printable are a clever visual for learning
- Spring Bubble Word Family Sort
- ⛄ Kids will flip when they see how cute and fun these Snowman Word Family Printables are!
- 💗 Hershey Kiss, chocolate themed Word Family Worksheets for practicing around Valentines Day
- 💗 Chocolate kiss sorting word family activity
- 🌸 These cut-and-paste Spring flowers word family printable are a fun way to practice
- 🐥 Another fun Easter themed way to practice is by sorting Easter eggs word family activity
- 🐣 Put the eggs in the correct carton and write the words on these Easter Word Family Worksheets
- 🌞 Bee Word Family Activity
- 🗽 Patriotic CVC Word
- 🎃Kids will have fun sliding the slips through these pumpkin Word Family Printables to read.
- 🍂 Puzzles are a fun way for kids to 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
Literacy Worksheets
These free printable literacy worksheets are a great way to go beyond ABC worksheets to really work on reading, writing, and spelling. These kindergarten literacy worksheets include CVC Word worksheets, rhyming worksheets, word family worksheets, sight word worksheets, and lots of phonics worksheets too. Use these kindergarten worksheets with pre-k, K4, K5, and first grade students.
- Beginning R Blend BINGO
- Summer Literacy Worksheets
- Rhyming Activity for Kindergarten
- Rhyming Words Worksheets
- Synonym Worksheets
- Words that end in SH
- Beginning Sounds Worksheets
- Homograph Games
- See more Literacy Worksheets
Kindergarten Printables
- 50 Books for Kindergarten Book List – Books for Kindergarteners to read themselves
- Kindergarten Calendar Printable
- Days of the Week Worksheets
- Kindergarten Spelling Words – add a vowel practice
- Free Kindergarten spelling words Printable
- Hoppy Frog Math Game (addition within 10 and addition to 20)
- Goldfish Kindergarten Subtraction Games
- Roll to 100 Counting Game
- Flower Shape Kindergarten Math Crafts
- Kids will have fun as they color and learn with these Ordinal Number Worksheet
- Spring Kite Skip Counting Craft
- Pirate I Spy Worksheets
- Crack the Code Worksheet Pages for Kindergarten and first graders
- Playdough Subtraction Smash free printable math activity
- Dinosaur Theme Kindergaten Math Worksheets
- What Comes Next Kindergarten Math
- Free Ice Cream Math Worksheets
Kindergarten Phonics
- Short i cvc worksheets cut and paste pdf
- Short E CVC Words Booklet
- Crack the Code CVC Word Worksheets
- Short a CVC Word Book
- Crayon CVC Words Activity
- CVC Word Puzzles Free Printable
- Word Family Sliders Free – lots of styles to print in color or black and white
- Blowing Bubbles Word Family Activities
- Monster Match CVC Word Activity
Kindergarten Activities
- Free Printable Seasons Worksheets w/ Free 4 Season Printables
- Large Printable Weather Unit for kids
- Rain Cloud for Kids experiment and free worksheet
- Water Cycle for Kids Printable Book
- Lots of weather printables to help kids learn about weather terms while epracticing math and literacy skills
- Grab this free printable 5 senses preschool printables to explore the senses of sight, taste, sound, smell, and touch
- Human Body human body playdough mats – lots of choices to learn about various systems of the body including simple for preschoolers, skeletal system, organs, muscles, nerves, and more!
- EPIC, Life-size Human Body Project
- Amazing 5 Senses for kids lesson to explore with hands on activities, videos, books, and more!
- Try this Jelly Bean sense of taste activities for preschool experiment.
- All About Me Kindergarten (Expanding horizons social studies unit to teach kids about themselves, My Family, My Neighborhood, My Community Unit with lots of ideas & resources
- Where do I Live – free printable project and fun idea for explaining how you live in a house, on a block, in a city, in a state, etc.
- Free Community Helpers Coloring Pages – over 20 simple coloring pages exploring jobs
- Community Helpers Printables Wheel
- Handy Community Signs Worksheets
- HUGE Pack of Firefighter Worksheet to practice a variety of skills with kids 3-8
- Free Printable Community Helpers Matching Game
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