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1st grade · English Language Arts · Unit 3 of 19

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.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: 1RF3 · 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 New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 3 of 19 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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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 one rhymes with “man”?

    👨man
    • 🥫can
    • ☕mug
    • 🐛bug

  2. Question 2

    Which one rhymes with “pen”?

    🖊️pen
    • 🔟ten
    • 🐛bug
    • 🛑stop

  3. Question 3

    Which word is in the “-at” family?

    -at

    • rat
    • mug
    • top

  4. Question 4

    Which word does not rhyme with the others?

    • bat
    • man
    • fan

  5. Question 5

    Which word does not rhyme with the others?

    • men
    • bat
    • rat

  6. Question 6

    Which word is in the “-op” family?

    -op

    • den
    • top
    • bug

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