Word Families: Short & Long Vowels Big Book (Literacy Skills)

Increase vocabulary, sight word recognition and comprehension as you help your students identify the correct pronunciation of short and long vowel phonograms (word families) using real life pictures as an aid. We also highlight the Dolch high frequency words which encourage beginning reading skills. As students begin to read and understand more about the onset and rhyme connection found in word families, they will begin to think of words as not only a series of individual letters and sounds, but as easily recognizable segments or chunks of language. Reproducible work sheets include, rhyming, writing, poetry, cloze sentences, riddles and chunking. Based on Bloom s Taxonomy, our resource can be used with any Language Arts program as a supplement to a balance literacy program to strengthen children s reading, writing and thinking skills. Crossword, Word Search and Comprehension Quiz are also included.