Word family houses maker

Every word lives in the house of its ending

Make word family houses. Each house is a plain roof and a box, with a word ending on the roof. Your child reads each word card, listens for its ending and glues it in the house where it belongs. Choose two houses or four, or type your own endings and words.

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Choose each part yourself

To keep a copy, choose “Save as PDF” as the printer. What you type stays on your device: it is not sent to us and not saved.

Your worksheet:

Watch: how the free worksheet makers workA two-minute lesson. Every maker works the same way.

How to make your worksheet

  1. Choose the word families, or type your own groups.
  2. Print the houses page and the cards page.
  3. Cut out the cards.
  4. Your child reads each card and glues it in its house.

The reading skill

Words that end the same way rhyme and are read the same way after the first sound. Sorting them by ending helps a beginner read a new word from one already known: if I can read cat, I can read hat.

Checked words

The ready words are short words from our checked word family sets.

Your own houses

Type one group on each line: the ending, a colon, then the words.

Good questions

How many houses fit on a page?

Two large ones or four smaller ones.

Are the houses pictures?

No. Each one is a plain triangle and a box, so the words are the only thing to look at.

Is there an answer key?

Yes. Leave “Answer key page” turned on and the key prints as the last page.

Is it free?

Yes, with no sign-up and no limit.

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