FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “The an Word Family: Phonics and Writing Fundamentals” – The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative

by Ms Joanne
Kindergarten – 1st Grade

This Phonics and Writing resource helps students master the “an” word family while also practicing basics such as letter formation and sentence writing. It contains the following components:

A mini-stories to introduce the an family AAA Acrobat eats a NNN Nut and all his friends say, “an”. A second copy of the story with audio is included in the ZIP file.

Illustrated Word Wall Contains 10 “an” words to be posted in the classroom as a reference tool and to be used for literacy center activities.

Printing Practice Practices upper and lower case “a” and “n”. There is also a sentence with “an” words to trace and students draw a picture to match the sentence to practice reading and visualization.

Word Work 2 pages practicing onsets, rimes, reading and spelling.

Sentence Writing 2 Pages:

1. Students choose 3 words from the an family, draw a picture of it and write a sentence with the word. High frequency words are also included on the page. This activity is especially helpful in getting reluctant or struggling writers to write a complete sentence, while allowing more capable students to write to their ability.

2. Students are given a page with a picture of a man and a van and create a sentence using those words and the picture as inspiration.

This resource is a sample taken from a larger series of Short Vowel resources, which you may interested in:

Short A Word Families: Phonics and Writing Fundamentals

Short E Word Families: Phonics and Writing Fundamentals

Short I Word Families: Phonics and Writing Fundamentals

Short O Word Families: Phonics and Writing Fundamentals

Short U Word Families: Phonics and Writing Fundamentals

Double Letter Short Vowel Families and Spelling Patterns

OR get all the above Word Family resources in one discounted bundle:

Short Vowels Word Families Mega Bundle: Phonics and Writing Fundamentals

Other Phonics Resources you may be interested in:

Complete Phonics Word Wall Contains over 1200 words organized by word families and spelling patterns.