Welcome back to the second short a word family of Learn to Read. Today, I’m sharing a free reader and other resources for the AD Word Family from Unit 1 of Learn to Read.
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Learn to Read: AD Word Family Reader & Activities
If you’ve used Reading the Alphabet, Learn to Read is a short vowel word family reading curriculum that comes right after! My Kindergartner is using it and I’ve already seen her blossom, with learning sight words and sounding out CVC words. Woohoo!
The AD reader features words from the AD word family as well as the new sight words make and said. (The sight words are from list A and B of my printable sight word lists.)
I use a long-armed stapler to put the book together. You can read more details on how to assemble the books the word family books or find a list of supplies for this curriculum.
Included with the printable book are also AD family puzzles. These are great for helping kids sound out words. Plus, the picture makes them easy to correct.
This Rainbow Roll & Write activity gets kids roll and writing their sight words in different colors.
The free pack also comes with a fun Roll, Read, and Find activity, which reviews the word family and the new sight words.
Learn to Read AD Word Family Extras
The next few activities come from the Short a Unit 1 Pack, which you can find at my shop or on Teachers Pay Teachers.
On day 1, I always read the short vowel poem, which has lots of words featuring the word family. It also has the two new sight words mixed in. After I read talk about the silly poem {a great way to build comprehension skills!!}, she helps me look for the word family and sight words. We highlight or underline them together.
Sorting the AD words and AT words she had learned the week before. Love that these sorts of NO PREP!
One of my favorite things about the curriculum is that there are several different options for learning. For example, the pack has a word family slider, word sorts, a word family stamping page, and this little word family flip book. All of these can be interchanged, depending on the interest of your child/student. {By the way, if you create a little word family flip book for each word family, they could be linked together and become a visual word family word bank!}
Word searches for each sight word are included in each pack. My goal was to make them a bit trickier, so kids have to really examine how the word is spelled. I love to make worksheets like this a little more interactive by pulling out the transparent counters.
Once the child finds the word multiple times in the word search, she writes how many times she found it. {Gotta sneak in some number writing!}
The sight word activity pages are a great way to get kids interacting with the sight word in multiple ways. Again, I love that it’s NO PREP for me!
You can also look back at last week’s AT Family post to see more word family and sight word extras that are included for each word family lesson.
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~Becky
Becky, I have a question for you! So.. I have a group of Kinders that I work with everyday. I have worked hard with them on many early literacy skills like print concepts, rhyme, alliteration, syllables, and letter-sound correspondence. They are ready to read! It can sometimes be so confusing because there is so much research out there, but should I begin working with these minders with word families, like the “at” family words…c-at, or is it more effective to sound out each letter..c-a-t? I realize that onset-rime is easier and usually what is recommend to start with… I appreciate your expertise!
My answer to your question is that I like to mix word families and sounding out each letter. Both strategies can be taught. I am working through word families with my Kindergartner right now, teaching her to look for chunks she knows. But I’m also teaching her that she can sound through each letter of those CVC words. At this point, sounding through each letter is resonating with her the most, but I still think it’s important to help her see that some words are related by a pattern. Hope that helps!
Becky,
Is there an electronic version for these books? I mean a version, where I can open it on my ipad and have my child read on it like a book, without having to print it nor to hunt for the next page in the print-ready version.
There isn’t that option. Sorry about that!
great work thanks for sharing
You’re welcome! 🙂
Hi there!! Great resource. Do these books come in black and white?
They do in the bundle-> https://shop.thisreadingmama.com/product/learn-to-read-short-a-unit-1/
I also have a bundle of just the black and white readers -> https://shop.thisreadingmama.com/product/short-vowel-word-family-phonics-readers/