Word Families - a Quick Reference for Teachers

Word Families - a Quick Reference for Teachers Word Families are now and then alluded to as gatherings, pieces or rimes. A word family shares something for all intents and purpose with one another, have it be the prefix, postfix or root word. For instance, green, grass, develop all have the gr sound in the start of the word. What are the Benefits? Word families are significant in light of the fact that they help little youngsters perceive and examine word designs when they are figuring out how to peruse. When showing diagnostic phonics, educators use word families to assist kids with understanding these examples and that specific words have a similar letter mixes and sounds. Most Common Word Families As per scientists Wylie and Durrel, there are 37 normal word families: ack, ain, ake, brew, all, ame, an, ank, ap, debris, at, ate, aw, ay, eat, ell, est, ice, yuck, ide, ight, sick, in, ine, ing, ink, ip, it, ock, oke, operation, metal, ot, uck ,ug, ump, unk. ack-back, hack, pack, rackain - mind, chain, principle, plainake - wakeful, heat, cake, fakeale - lager, bundle, deal, taleall - all, ball, call, hallame - fault, came, game, samean - a, boycott, can, panank - bank, drank, sank, tankap - top, map, rap, tapash - slam, run, rash, sashat - bat, feline, fat, matate - destiny, door, late, rateaw - paw, draw, paw, saway - day, roughage, may, sayeat - beat, accomplishment, meat, seatell - ringer, fell, tell, wellest - best, rest, vest, westice - dice, mice, pleasant, riceick - block, kick, pick, sickide - lady, cover up, ride, sideight - brilliant, battle, light, nightill - charge, slope, pill, stillin - canister, jawline, smile, tinine - feast, fine, mine, vineing - bring, ruler, sing, wingink - drink, connect, pink, sinkip - chip, plunge, lip, sipit - bit, fit, hit, sitock - square, clock, rock, sockop - cop, bounce, mop, topore - bore, increasingly, sore, toreot - got, hot, not, rotuck - buck, duck karma, tuckug - bug, embrace, mug, rugu mp - knock, dump, hop, pumpunk - bunk, dunk, junk,sunk Source: Richard E. Wylie and Donald D. Durrell, 1970. Showing Vowels Through Phonograms. Rudimentary English 47, 787-791.