Word Families: ack
| back | Jack | lack |
| Mack | pack | quack |
| rack | sack | tack |
| black | crack | shack |
| snack | stack | track |
Word families are words which end the same forming a chunk that the children can learn to say altogether rather than sounding out each letter sound. For example back: sound out the b and add the chunk ack forming back.
Word families also encourage children to find patterns in words so they can recall this information in a timely fashion.
Word families encourage children to spell better as you guide them to search for a word in the family that they already know how to spell. For example if they know how to spell back then they can remember the chunk (ack) to spell pack. They have to only replace the first letter.Ack Rhyme
By Mrs. Alphabet
Jack took a black sack
To his best friend Mack
Who lived in a shack by the track.
But Mack took it back
Because the black sack
Had a hole with a crack
And made a sound like a quack.