Word Family Homes: Short a

Feel at home identifying word families in this colorful worksheet! Students will look at the three pictures in each of the six homes that represent word families like -am and -ap. They’ll need to decide which of the pictures belong in the word family and which do not. This worksheet includes three- and four-letter words like flag, bat, and crab. 

Kindergartners and first graders can use this worksheet to practice recognizing short a sounds and rhyming words. They can improve their phonemic awareness through isolating and segmenting parts of short words. These skills can help students decode and spell unfamiliar words in the future! 

Move on to the next letter in Word Family Homes: Short e. To keep working on the short a, check out Build a Sentence: Short A and Read and Draw: Short A.