Looking for an easy prep word family activity?

Develop the phonemic awareness skill of rhyming with these fun and engaging Word Family Card Games. These rhyming card games will have your students listening for sounds within words and learning all about rhyming word families in no time AND they will have so much fun doing it!

Use these engaging word family card games to teach, practise and revise rhyming word families during literacy groups, literacy rotations, word work activities, explicit teaching lessons and in literacy centers or play based investigation areas.

THIS RESOURCE CONTAINS:

• 36 illustrated rhyming playing cards with labels

• 36 illustrated rhyming playing cards without labels

• 4 printable backing pattern sheets – 2 standard and 2 ink saving

• printable instructions for 6 different card games

You will receive a .pdf file containing 72 beautiful word family playing cards. There are 9 cards to each A4 sheet. I recommend printing them onto card stock. Print in colour and at a high quality as the pictures are real life photos so your students can easily relate to them.

Word Families included: _at _og _an _ap _ug _ain _ake _eep _oat

Printable instructions explaining how to play 6 easy card games are also included and there are 4 bonus printable backing sheets to make your card games look professional.

DIFFERENTIATE:

EASY - Use the cards with labels to help students SEE that rhyming words have the same ending.

DIFFICULT - Use the cards without labels to encourage students to HEAR the rhyme.

You might prefer an easier level of word family cards. Check out CVC Word Family Card Games.