Word Family Chart

I have been working on word families for my students using paint chips, scroll down to see my previous blog.  As I am making each word family, I was going through the alphabet to make use I have each letter to correspond with the word family.  I thought, wouldn't it be easier to write it all down and reference my chart?!?!  So, that's exactly what I did and you can download the file here: Word Family Freebie.  You don't have to use all the words in the word family but all the words are there :)

Word Families

I have been wanting to make word families for quite some time but I didn't really know where to start.  I looked all over Pinterest and saw some ideas that sparked my curiosity!  I wanted to make the word families easy to use and colorful, of course!  I raided got a whole bunch of paint chips to start with.  I started to write the letters on the paint chips but it didn't come out the way I was hoping, so I had a new idea to use alphabet stickers instead.  So, I went back into town to get some new supplies to start all over.  I am going to make word families for all the vowels as the school year progresses.

This is how I started out, what a mess!! 

 Lots of sorting!!