Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Word Families We Know:

Parents, please feel free to use this list of word families to challenge your child for their practice spelling test every Thursday night.

For example, call "map." Then say, "If you can spell map, you can spell flap." This allows your child to build on the skill of applying spelling sounds.

-ap (map)
-at (bat)
-am (ham)
-an (fan)
-ack (quack)
-et (get)
-ed (bed)
-en (ten)
-in (fin)
-ip (lip)
-ick (pick)
-og (jog)
-ock (rock)
-op (mop)
-ot (not)
-ut (but)
-ug (jug)
-un (run)