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Word families are groups of words that have a common feature or pattern - they have some of the same combinations
of letters in them and a similar sound. For example, at, cat, hat, and fat are a family of words with the "at" sound and letter
combination in common.
The 37 most common word families in English (according to Wylie and Durrell) are: ack, ain, ake, ale, all, ame, an, ank, ap, ash, at, ate, aw ay, eat, ell, est, ice, ick, ide, ight, ill, in, ine, ing,
ink, ip, it, ock, oke, op, ore, ot, uck ,ug, ump, unk.
Many of the nursery rhymes contain common word families. You can use these rhymes to teach these letter combinations (and
how they are spelled and spoken), having the students sound them out after memorizing the rhyme. You can study one word family
a week. Students can use the Little Explorers Picture Dictionary to look for more words that belong to word families.
The following is a list of the most common word families in English (from Wylie and Durrell, 1970, plus a few other word
families) and exemplars of each.
Below you will find a complete list of word families we will only learn a few this year. Please see the list
below. We may edit this list throughout the year so please check back.
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