I’m using the Family cut file to decorate a fall wreath I made earlier this season. You can use the design for cards or decor or whatever you like.

As a simple outline of how to teach your kids about word families and root words, try this technique: This personalised family name canvas creates a beautiful piece of art with all a families names and interests. Typography prints from Hatched Creative make wonderful gifts for friends or family members and can be personalised to suit a variety of occasions. Examples could be, birthdays, anniversaries or any other treasured occasion that focuses on a specific number. The national curriculum states that children should be able to match prefixes with correct root words, give several words within the same family in list form, and add suffixes to nouns (which turns that suffix into an adjective).

You can capture Precious Memories by Immortalising your favourite family moments and the important people in your life with this stunning word art print. The combination of your carefully chosen words and treasured three family photos creates a captivating visual display that will evoke fond memories and emotions. Size design as you’d like and set to print-then-cut. Flatten design as necessary. Make sure to hide draw line if you’d like your design to look as shown.

Word F amilies Sorting Worksheet - A superb worksheet for children in their Early Years. Quite simple to use, children just need to sort the word family lists into the correct boxes. Seeing the patterns in language that link words to each other is helpful when it comes to reading, writing and spelling. There is a range of print sizes that suits your preferences and available space plus a choice of the frame style that complements your decor and adds an elegant touch to the artwork. With these customisable options, you can create a truly one-of-a-kind masterpiece that fits seamlessly into your home or office. A word family is a group of words that may share a common root word with different Prefixes and Suffixes in morphology. They are used for teaching spelling. Sign up for a Twinkl Account today to explore this word family teaching wiki and lots more exciting resources. These help children to understand how to read and build vocabulary through repetition, nursery rhymes. They also allow children to recognise common phonetical sounds. Phonics is the foundation that children build on for their spelling techniques.Word family lists are groups or words following similar patterns. They significantly increase the amount of words your child is exposed to and can master. In spelling patterns, your child can learn eight to twenty-five words instead of just one or two. Your child’s word recall is improved as similar words are stored together in their brains. This is the positive thing about teaching word family lists. We know that every family is unique and has their own special memories, and so should their word art print. That’s why each print is meticulously personalised to reflect your individuality. You have the freedom to select 10 to 20 meaningful words that define what’s important to you. From names and surnames to places and significant dates, any words you hold dear can be included in the design. Key Stage 2 pupils should be able to understand prefixes, suffixes and root words in preparation for the SATs grammar, punctuation and spelling test at the end of year 6.

Free Cut file day! Today’s freebie is a free Family SVG cut file for you to use when decorating for all your family gatherings. This cut file includes 3 cut layers and a draw layer so you can customize the look and use however you’d like. Use this design with your Cricut projects, you can also combine letters to create a single word art cut design. Begin with short vowels that start with an 'a' to ease children into understanding the different connectives between words. Often these follow a CVC/CVCC (consonant, vowel, consonant) pattern that children are typically familiar with. If you're teaching your class about word families in preparation for their KS2 SATs, then you've come to the right place. Twinkl has plenty of resources on this topic to support your teaching and to help children understand what word families are all about. Unframed Prints: Printed onto high quality photo satin paper, ready for you to frame yourself. They will be sent rolled in a postal tube. Unframed prints do not come framed.The issue comes when you stop! And only teach word lists which are grouped in word families. Because your teaching efforts may feel like a failure. Why so? Well… think about it… when you incorrectly use word families… learners can just end up following the pattern of that lesson. They will blindly zip through the spellings without learning them. They will just follow a pattern, one that you had intended to be educational and insightful, which ends up becoming counterproductive. The child can’t then spell the words outside the organised lists. Children should learn about word families in year 3 English as part of the English national curriculum. At this stage, children are shown that common words are related in form and meaning. In this example, I choose to color each of the 3 cut layers a different color. Then, I flattened all 3 layers to make a Print-the-Cut design with my Cricut machine. Knowledge of word families make spelling and identifying words easier, as being able to identify the root word will help children to be able to spell other words in the same word family.