Short a word families worksheets
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Words in the same family share their ending: cat, hat, and bat are all -at words.
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Kindergarten
Word families are groups of words that share an ending: the -at family holds cat, hat, and bat. These are the classic CVC words (consonant-vowel-consonant), and kindergartners sort them into the -at, -an, and -ap families, which turns decoding into a pattern game instead of letter-by-letter work.
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1st grade Core grade
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The short-a families (-at, -an, -ap) are a reader's first patterns: learn to read at, and cat, hat, sat, and flat come almost for free. First graders sort the families quickly and start spelling new family members on their own.
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