Children continue to memorize and recognize familiar words. Seeing, reading, and remembering the most common word patterns used in grade-level texts is essential to their reading skills in the future.
Below are words from the -an word family. Being able to easily read and manipulate the beginnings of words gives kids the ability to break words down quicker and with more success. Finding different ways to practice these will give students the confidence to read these words when they encounter them.
-an Word Family Words List
The -an word family includes the following words:
| ban | man |
| bran | pan |
| can | plan |
| clan | ran |
| Dan | span |
| fan | Stan |
| flan | tan |
| gran | than |
| Jan | van |
Closing
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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