Word Families: ean
| bean | dean | Jean |
| lean | mean | wean |
| clean | glean |
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 bean: sound out the b and add the chunk ean forming bean.
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 bean then they can remember the chunk (ean) to spell dean. They have to only replace the first letter.Ean Rhyme
By Mrs. Alphabet
A boy named Dean
Was bad and mean
Until a girl named Jean
Gave him a magic bean.