ai Word Family List – FREE PDF Download

| Last Updated: June 12, 2022

Children continue to memorize and recognize familiar words. Seeing, reading, and remembering the most common words used in grade-level texts is essential to their reading skills in the future. That’s why words are broken down by grade level. 

Below are the -ai word family generally taught and mastered in the first grade. Finding different ways to practice these will ensure students can quickly and easily read these words when they encounter them. Practicing short a words is a great tool for kids to increase reading skills.

-ai Word Family Words List

The -ai word family includes the following words:

afraidbraidjailpaidrail
aidclaimlaidpailsail
aimfaillairpaintsnail
airfairmaidpairtail
bailhailmailquailtrail
baithairnailraidwait

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Teaching these words can be done in a variety of creative ways like word hunts, memory games, activity mats, and tracing sheets. No matter how they learn them, these words will increase their confidence and reading skills, and set them up for reading success.



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