Word Family Turkeys

There are a couple of ways you could do this activity. You could print the turkey template here and write a word family base on the body (like -ap) and have your child fill in each feather with the beginning (like cl, c, m etc.)

OR you could do what I did and make a few turkeys with detached feathers. I wrote the word family base on the body of the turkey and a beginning on each feather. Then give your child the turkey bodies and have them add the feathers.

If you don't know where to start with word families -at, -an, and -ap are good ones because they have the short a sound. Those are the three I did:
-at  (h,c,s,r,b,th)
-an  (c,r,t,v,f,m)
-ap  (c,m,n,cl,sn,wr)
There are some repeats on the feathers so tell them if they've already put a "c" (for example) on the -at body, they need to find another place to put it.  If they've done it correctly, I wouldn't worry if they end up with 4 feathers on one turkey, and 8 on another.  If you think they're ready you could turn it into a puzzle and challenge them to make it work with exactly six feathers on each turkey.  You could also substitute more advanced word families.  Enchanted Learning has a great list.  To modify it for younger kids, you could do rhyming words or same beginning sound words or even matching colors or letters.  Hope you have fun with it!

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