Identifying Word Families in English | Reading & Vocabulary Development
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Word families are groups of words that have a common feature or pattern - they have some of the same combinations of letters in them and a similar sound.
For example: at, cat, hat, and fat are a family of words with the "at" sound and letter combination in common.
Words such as 'cat,' 'bat,' 'rat,' 'mat,' 'sat,' and 'that' are examples of words that are in the '-at' family. The chart below outlines the most common word families. Students can learn to read and spell more than a thousand words using these word families.
| a | e | i | o | u |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -ack | -eat | -ice | -ock | -uck |
| -ain | -ell | -ick | -oke | -ug |
| -ake | -est | -ide | -op | -ump |
| -ale | -ight | -ore | -unk | |
| -all | -ill | - ot | ||
| -ame | -in | |||
| -an | -ine | |||
| -ank | -ing | |||
| -ap | -ink | |||
| -ash | -ip | |||
| -at | -it | |||
| -ate | ||||
| -aw | ||||
| -ay |
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