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Reading the Alphabet AT Word Family (Lesson 7)

By thisreadingmama 15 Comments

We’ve reached Reading the Alphabet AT Word Family, the first of five word family lessons.

This lesson is a review of the letters from lesson 1-6, so be sure you grab them from my post on Reading the Alphabet!

Reading the Alphabet AT Word Family - This Reading Mama

*Keep scrolling until the end of this post to grab the free version of Reading the Alphabet Letter AT Word Family.

 

You can purchase our updated Reading the Alphabet Bundle Pack, stream-lined for easy downloading!  It also features TONS of bonus material that you can’t find in this free version!

 
                            

Reading the Alphabet AT Word Family

Here are a few snapshots of the review activities as well as newer activities I created for the AT Word Family.  I was truly surprised at how quickly NJoy (3 days shy of being 4 years old!) caught on to the -at family words.  To see how all of these activities were spaced out into our week, I’ve included 5-day plan the download.

Review Work

Early Emergent Readers from Lessons 1-6

He read back through all of the books (divided up into two days); reviewing our letter sounds and sight words.  (You can download the  I See Apples book here.  It’s not a part of Reading the Alphabet.)

He thoroughly enjoyed re-tracing all of his sight word mazes.  One morning, he spent nearly 15 minutes just sitting and tracing all of the mazes, searches, and tracer pages in his Handwriting Notebook.  I was amazed because this child rarely sits to do anything!

word mazes for preschoolers

I also reprinted a few mazes for him to stamp his way through.  He liked this as well.

spelling sight words on cookie sheetI cut apart sight word cards (on download), placed magnetic tape on the back and he used magnetic letters to spell each word on the cookie sheet.  He was excited to get to do something he’d always seen big brother do.

roll and stamp a letterRoll and Stamp a Letter-roll the education cube and stamp the letter in the graph (further directions are on the download).

AT Word Family Work

Building AT words with bottle capsI printed off “level 2” of this bottle cap activity in which the beginning letters were left off and he had to review letter sounds;  building the words with bottle caps. (These are similar to the bottle cap spelling we did with my PreK Farm Unit from this summer.)

AT Word PuzzlesAT Word Puzzles-2He enjoyed the AT Word Puzzles.  I placed all the initial letter pieces on the left side of our floor space, all the A’s in the middle, and all the T’s on the right side.

Pocket Chart AT Word Family MatchPocket Chart AT Word Family Matching-I placed the pictures up, we identified pictures, then built the words together

AT Family Emergent ReaderScat Rat! Reader We re-built the -at words from the reader on the floor, re-read them together, found them in the text, then read it together.  He gained more independence each day we read it and needed less and less support.

CAT Tracing PageCAT Tracer Page-This was also placed in his Handwriting Notebook page and he traced the page several times in different colors.

Print Awareness Activity with Cat on MatCat Print Awareness-he drew his “mat”, decorated it with wheels (hey, he’s a boy) and then we glued down the cat and the sentence: “The cat sat on the mat.”

 

All of the FREE activities original to This Reading Mama can be found by clicking below:

 

You Might also like our Short a Word Family Color the Chunk Pages!

Short a Word Families

Enjoy teaching!
~Becky

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Comments

  1. Cassie says

    October 12, 2012 at 6:10 am

    I love this! So similar but different from what I’m putting out! A great resource!

    Reply
  2. Deb @ Living Montessori Now says

    October 21, 2012 at 7:21 am

    Wonderful printable! Thanks so much for sharing it, Becky! I featured your printable as the Free Printable of the Day at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/LivingMontessoriNow

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      October 21, 2012 at 7:23 am

      Thanks, Deb!!!

      Reply
  3. charity says

    January 29, 2013 at 9:02 am

    amazing tools! thank you. my daughter will love these goodies!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      January 29, 2013 at 2:44 pm

      Wonderful! So glad your daughter can use these! 🙂

      Reply
  4. Meagan says

    September 21, 2013 at 8:13 am

    I have to say, we have been doing this program for 7 weeks, or so, and my son just LOVES it. He is 3 1/2 now and it was so cute to see HIM read a book to Daddy last night (reviewed the Letter Mm Book). He has known all his letters and their sounds for a while now, but was not quite ready for a full reading program. This is the absolute perfect fit and we are so grateful. He just devours the book each week. I also love the variety of activities you put with each letter book. My son is NOT a crafty guy, so I am grateful for the variety!! Thank you again.

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      September 21, 2013 at 8:48 am

      Thank you for sharing your experience with Reading the Alphabet! I’m so glad it fits your little guy so well. 🙂

      Reply
  5. Devon says

    May 20, 2014 at 9:59 am

    I can’t figure out how to download this lesson! Am I losing my mind? I usually can find the zip files just fine.

    Reply
  6. S says

    March 22, 2015 at 7:05 pm

    There is a Roll-a-Rhyme activity in this zip file, but it is not mentioned in the lesson plan or blog. Was it added by mistake or just an extra activity to use for review?

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      March 23, 2015 at 6:53 am

      I’d have to look again, but if I don’t mention it, it could just be used for review.

      Reply
  7. Jamiela Ismail says

    September 7, 2015 at 4:01 pm

    an absolutely wonderful site with brilliant ideas. thank you for sharing

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      September 8, 2015 at 5:51 am

      Thank you so much!

      Reply
  8. Melissa B. says

    May 5, 2016 at 7:36 am

    Good Morning,
    We’re on lesson #7, should my child have the sight words that he has learned MASTERED at this point before moving onto lesson #8? Thank you in advance! Loooooovvve your program(s) and all your materials are absolutely fantastic!!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      May 5, 2016 at 8:07 am

      That is totally up to you. My son did, but my daughter did not and I still moved on with both of them. Kids will see these sight words over and over again as they move on. If there are a couple that continue to cause problems, single them out and work on those or include them as a review sight word for each lesson. Because these sight words are so frequent, point them out when you’re reading to your child, too! I know that doesn’t give you a yes or no answer, but it’s flexible.

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      • Melissa B. says

        May 5, 2016 at 12:38 pm

        Very helpful, thank you! 🙂 BTW…we’ve been using the sight word animal/people action cards that you provided recently and its really helped.

        Reply

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Hi! I’m Becky, a homeschooling mama with 4 blessings who keep me on my toes {and knees}. Before homeschooling, I was a classroom teacher (M.Ed.) and reading tutor. Read more about me here.

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