Bring fun to your phonics activities and word building lessons this winter with over 70 winter themed word family mats. Your kindergarten or first grade students will love world building with both short and long vowels, and build fluency reading words with onset and rhyme! You'll save time with a word work literacy center right at your fingertips all December, January and February. Get creative and change up the materials you use (pipe cleaners, wiki sticks, play dough, or even dry erase markers) to create words in each word family. This type of activity is my favorite because you can incorporate all of those sensory and fine motor skills while practicing phonics skills!

This activity includes 3 recording sheets, student instruction page (ideal for students center) and teaching notes.

Includes common word families for long and short vowels.

Word families included are:

A

-ap, -at, -am, -an, -ag, -ab, -all, -ay, -ail, -ain,- ake, -ate, -ape, -ave, -ame, -ane, -ait

I

-id, -it, -ig, -in, -ip, -ick, -ill, -ight, -ine, -ild, -ine, -ime, ite, -ive, -ile

O

-og, -ob, -op, -ot, -ock, -oke, -ome, -one, -old, -ote, -ole, -ope, -ow, -out

U

-up, -un, - ug, -ub, -ut, -ud, -uff, -um, -uck, -unk, -une, -ute, -ube, -uit

E

-et, -ell, -em, -en, -eg, -ed, -eed, -eel, -eep, -ee-, -eak, -eat