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Short Vowel Word Family Cards

By thisreadingmama 18 Comments

I’m so excited to share our newest subscriber freebie today! It’s a pack of Short Vowel Word Family Cards.

These are similar in style to our free Phonics Cards Set 1, Phonics Cards Set 2, Number Cards, and 6 sets of Sight Word Sentence Cards! Yes, you have access to TONS of exclusive freebies when you’re a subscriber!

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Short Vowel Word Family Cards

With the finish of our Color the Chunk Word Family Pages and the start of Learn to Read with my Kindergartner, I have word families on the brain!

So I thought this would be the perfect time to create some short vowel word family cards for her to use as a spelling or reading reference. And I’m sharing them with you, too!

The 30 short vowel word families included are:

  • Short a: -at, -ad, -an, -am, -ap, -ag & -ack
  • Short e: -et, -ed, -en, -eck, -est, & -ell
  • Short i: -it, -ig, -ip, -in, -ick, & -ill
  • Short o: -ot, -og, -op, -ob, & -ock
  • Short u: -ug, -ut, -un, -ub, -uck, & -ump

(These don’t include all of the welded sounds, like -ing, -ank, or -all. But we do have free welded sound phonics cards.)

 

-at word family card example

On each card, the word family is featured up at the top. Then there are 6 common words and pictures that fit within that word family. Some cards do not have blends and digraphs at the beginning and some do. The onset (beginning part) of the words are black and the rime (word family pattern) is red to help readers SEE the chunk in the word.

 

Want smaller cards? Try this easy tutorial!

 

make a flip book with the short vowel word family cards

You can keep the cards separate, but I HIGHLY suggest using a heavy duty hole punch and a clip ring to create a flip book. This keeps them altogether and makes it easy to hang them up on a hook. It also makes them more portable. So if my daughter needs to use them in the kitchen, she can.

If you want to make them more durable, I also suggest laminating them.

Learners can read each word on the card. Grab our free beginning sounds chart to help learners think of even more words they can spell from the word family rime.

Because the images are smaller, these work best for individual learners or small groups.

**Got a preschooler? Use these simple cards to practice rhyming words!!

 

If you’re looking for cards that could be put on your wall and seen across the room, you might like our MEGA Bundle Pack of Phonics Cards. It includes word family rime cards, welded sound cards, and hundreds more!!

 

Grab your copy of our Short Vowel Word Family Cards
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Enjoy teaching!
~Becky

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Filed Under: Learn to Read, Reading the Alphabet, Struggling Readers Tagged With: SF, subscriber freebie, SV, WF

« Color the Chunk – Short u Word Families
Color the Chunk – Welded Sounds »

Comments

  1. Ruth Magnani says

    January 25, 2018 at 8:19 am

    I love your resources for sight words.
    Thank you
    Ruth Magnani

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      January 25, 2018 at 7:27 pm

      Thanks! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Carol Smith says

    January 25, 2018 at 9:17 am

    I just became a subscriber and I wanted you to know how much I love the stuff you offer. I am a public school teacher, teaching K-5 ELL(English Language Learners) students and these cards with pictures are perfect. I love them, they love them- it’s great! Thanks for creating them and thanks for offering them as freebies!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      January 25, 2018 at 7:27 pm

      Yay! I’m so glad you can use these cards with your learners. Thanks for subscribing!

      Reply
  3. Arya B says

    January 25, 2018 at 6:35 pm

    Really valuable printouts. Thank you so much.

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      January 25, 2018 at 7:26 pm

      You’re welcome! 🙂

      Reply
  4. Julieta Marmolejo C says

    January 26, 2018 at 9:58 am

    Mil gracias por ese material tan importante y bien elaborado, soy de Colombia y me sirve grandemente.

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      January 27, 2018 at 7:57 am

      De nada!

      Reply
  5. Lyudmila says

    January 26, 2018 at 1:30 pm

    Thank you very much for sharing!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      January 27, 2018 at 7:57 am

      You’re very welcome. 🙂

      Reply
  6. Jie Tan says

    February 5, 2018 at 3:42 am

    I just became a subscriber, but I didn’t get the cards after I entered the mailbox,can u send them to my mailbox?thanks a lot

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      February 6, 2018 at 10:09 pm

      See if it arrived in your spam folder. I can see that it was sent to your email address.

      Reply
  7. Glenda Fortner says

    March 29, 2018 at 12:15 pm

    This is just what I need to keep my readers interested this time of the year.

    Reply
  8. Shirley Holm says

    March 31, 2018 at 8:44 pm

    I so appreciate that you are willing to share your talents with us!! Everything you create is like eye-candy to me!! Happy Easter!

    Reply
  9. Jamie says

    April 3, 2018 at 2:43 pm

    I really love these! I printed these out and we have been using them while teaching our word families. I notice that I am missing -id, -ox, -up, and -eg. I wish these were included, but otherwise we are loving them! Thanks!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      April 3, 2018 at 6:46 pm

      I’m glad you’re enjoying the word family cards here. I do not have the word families you’ve mentioned and do not have plans to create them at this time.

      Reply
  10. Faith says

    March 26, 2021 at 6:47 pm

    Amazing ..
    Thank you so much

    Reply
  11. Ammulu says

    May 31, 2021 at 4:37 pm

    Thank u so much

    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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