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Check out these great reading mats for teaching short i - part of The Measured Mom's growing collection of free word family printables!

Here are the short i word family words you’ll find in these printables:

ill: hill, drill, grill, bill, ill, mill, pill, fill
id: lid, mid, slid, hid, kid, bid, squid, grid
ick: stick, pick, sick, kick, trick, chick, lick, brick
it: knit, sit, kit, hit, lit, pit, bit, fit
in: pin, win, grin, fin, bin, spin, twin, chin
ig: dig, pig, wig, twig, jig, rig, big, sprig
ip: chip, flip, ship, trip, chip, drip, rip, tip

UPDATE: My word family mats give reading practice with analytic phonics instruction, as described above. Analytic phonics is when you use known words or word parts (such as word families) as analogies for figuring out words. Many children do very well with analytic phonics instruction. However, as I learn more about the science of reading, I now prefer to start with synthetic phonics instruction. You can learn more about that in this video blog post.  

How do you use Read ‘n Stick Mats?

1) Print and laminate each mat on sturdy cardstock.  I love this affordable home laminator and laminating sheets!  Then print and laminate each set of cards. Cut them apart and stick velcro dots to the pictures and backs of the cards.

2) You can certainly print the mats and cards on plain paper, and have your child match them. However, for a more durable and lasting activity, I recommend #1.  A bonus of the velcro dots is that you can store the mats without the cards getting lost — just stick them on!

Check out these great reading mats for teaching short i - part of The Measured Mom's growing collection of free word family printables!

3) Have your child take off all the cards. Then have him read the name of the family in the center of the board. Next, he should read each card and match it to the correct picture. You will be teaching new vocabulary along the way when he gets stuck on a particular word (“What’s a sprig?”).

5) After a few times of doing this with you, this is something your child might be able to do himself.  

Free word family printables for short i

Check out these great reading mats for teaching short i - part of The Measured Mom's growing collection of free word family printables!

 

Check out these great reading mats for teaching short i - part of The Measured Mom's growing collection of free word family printables!

Check out these great reading mats for teaching short i - part of The Measured Mom's growing collection of free word family printables!

Check out these great reading mats for teaching short i - part of The Measured Mom's growing collection of free word family printables!

Check out these great reading mats for teaching short i - part of The Measured Mom's growing collection of free word family printables!

Check out these great reading mats for teaching short i - part of The Measured Mom's growing collection of free word family printables!

Check out these great reading mats for teaching short i - part of The Measured Mom's growing collection of free word family printables!

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31 Comments

  3. Lisa Ehrman

    I love all your cute and helpful Printables. I’m adding you to my Homeschool Resource tab on my blog. This site is wonderful and I’m glad I found it on the Hearts for Home Blog Hop.

  5. Missy

    I had pinned these awhile ago and I’m hoping to use them soon with my kids 🙂 I make stuff all the time for my kids, (but have no idea how to share them on my blog yet. Still have to figure that one out.) I know how much time it takes to make this kind of stuff and I sure appreciate it when someone else does the work and is willing to share it! Thank you for sharing these!

      • Missy

        Thanks for your offer to help! I’m on weebly, not WordPress though. I haven’t looked into it much yet, but it’s something that I definitely want to look into sometime. For now, I’ll have to keep checking out your printables 🙂

  6. Beth

    You always have such wonderful printables! Thanks for linking up to TGIF! I featured you as the most clicked on link =)

    I hope to see you linked up again later today, Have a great weekend,
    Beth

  7. Jill

    These are a great little way to learn some of your word families. I like that you add new words and cover the standard words too. Thank you for linking up this week to the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop 🙂

  9. Deb @ Living Montessori Now

    Your Read n’ Stick Mats are such a great idea, Anna! Thanks so much for sharing them! I featured your short i mats as a Free Printable of the Day yesterday at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page and on Pinterest.

  11. Jo Ann Rocha

    Thank you so much for your fabulous word family mats. I am working with ESL students and these will be so much fun for them to use. 🙂

    • Anna Geiger

      I’m so glad to hear that, Jo Ann! I hope you get lot of use out of them. More to come – eventually!

    • Anna Geiger

      Short i is a tricky one, for sure! I think that a and o are easiest, and i and e are a challenge. I hope this helps, Tereza!

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