Word Families

We have given our library card quite the workout this semester. There hasn't been a week that we haven't made at least one trip to the library!

We discovered these books:

At first, I just had Kate read the words that had the sound we were studying. Now she can, with a teeny bit of help, read the whole book. They are divided into two parts, the first is just random sentences introducing those words with the ending sound that matches the title (like fill, bill, Will, sill, etc.). The next half is a story that uses those words. I pick up one or two of them each time we are at the library. It has worked great for us to learn phonics. The pictures are a little hokey, but she doesn't care at all, and probably actually likes them a little more for it. The stories are often silly, and she likes that too. Her very favorite was -ate as in Skate because Kate and Nate went on a date.

This particular set (word families) is aimed at K-2, but there are books for more advanced readers too. I love to own books, so I can pull them down when we want to refer to them, but I looked at the prices of the books and the sets are quite expensive. Additionally, if you have a kiddo like Kate, who memorizes large portions of books in one or two readings, you won't use them enough to make it worth their purchase if you can get them at the library. If you can't, perhaps if you make a request they will be able to borrow them from another library for you or even put it on their book buying list, so we can support this company, even if we don't have the home school budget to purchase a set.