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1st grade · English Language Arts · Unit 3 of 13

Word Families

-at, -ig, -op and more

What your child practices

Words that share an ending, like cat, hat and bat. Once children know one word in a family, they can read and spell many more by changing the first sound.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 1.RF.3 · reading words in common word families

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A word family shares the same ending, like -at: cat, hat, bat.
  2. Words in a family rhyme.
  3. Change the first letter to make a new word: ten, pen, den.

Example: Which word is in the “-ig” family? pig or pot? The -ig family ends with i-g. p-ig ends with -ig. Answer: pig

Word Families in Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 3 of 13 in 1st grade English Language Arts, after Short Vowels and before Sh, Ch, Th.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Arizona Department of Education

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which word does not rhyme with the others?

    • van
    • top
    • shop

  2. Question 2

    Put the sounds together. What word is it?

    t + ug

    • top
    • bug
    • tug

  3. Question 3

    Which one rhymes with “bug”?

    🐛bug
    • 🖊️pen
    • 🔟ten
    • ☕mug

  4. Question 4

    Which one rhymes with “hat”?

    🎩hat
    • 🐱cat
    • 🖊️pen
    • ☕mug

  5. Question 5

    Which word is in the “-op” family?

    -op

    • sat
    • stop
    • man

  6. Question 6

    Which word is in the “-at” family?

    -at

    • mat
    • den
    • pan

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