Word Family Game Boards

Word families are fun and easy to teach with Word Family Game Boards!

Although these word family game boards are played just like the game of Boggle,they are very different.

• Quiet Activity: The Word Family Game Boards are pre-printed, so there are aren't any noisy letter pieces!
• Targeted Word Family Practice: Each Word Family Game Board is strategically embedded with word family words to help students recognize patterns of word families.
• Sight Word Practice: In addition to finding word family words, students also reinforce reading and writing high frequency words (sight words).
• Complex Words: Word building helps students recognize more complex words containing blends, digraphs and suffixes.
• Flexible for Group Size: The Word Family Game Boards can flex to be used by individuals, pairs, or large classroom groups. The boards are ideal for grades K-3, but are appropriate to teach word families to older students or English Language Learners (ELL).
• Differentiates: The game boards are adaptable to meet the diverse individual learning styles and abilities of all students.
• Time Flexible: The game boards can flex from a quick five minute activity to an open-ended one.
• Educational Snatches of Time : Perfect for quiet inside recess activity, sub plans, homework skill reinforcement, early finishers, waiting in line for recess, etc.
• Fun: When word families are presented in a game format, kids don't even realize they're learning! A game is so much more fun than fill-in-the-blank learning workbooks!

These word building games for kids teach and reinforce valuable skills:

• reading (especially phonics, word building, sight word recognition)
• spelling skills
• writing skills

Contains game boards for the following top 36 word famiies:

• ack, ail, ain, ake, 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, ow
• uck, ump, ug

Ages 3 and up