Word Family Dance Steps

Trace around your shoe to create a shoe shape. Next, write different words from various word families on the shoe shape. Then, mix them up and tape them to the floor to create a path (curved, straight - whatever you'd like!) of shoe prints. Kids move (dance / hop) to words that belong to the same family!

Find Your Family

Place Value
Numerals - Pass out numbers and have kids find their family! (example above: members have 5 tens) Once they have all of their members, they line themselves up in order. Then, the whole class problem solves and works together to create one long line of numbers in the correct order. (You could also write numbers in expanded form.)

Word Families - example: all the -ops are members of a family (bop, cop, hop, mop, pop)

Word Families: Shake and Race

Kids work in teams, shake a bag of word family endings, and race against the timer to create a list of words within a word family! Write various word family endings on notecards and toss them in a paper lunch bag. Teams take turns shaking the bag and pulling a card out. Each team works together against the clock and the rest of the teams, trying to come up with as many words as they can for a single word family, before the time runs out. Which team will come up with the most words?!


timer via alamy