AKE Word Family Worksheet
An AKE Word Family Worksheet for 1st grade: read six sentences and write the missing -ake word from the word bank. Answer key included for fast, no-prep long a phonics practice.
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Word families give a new reader a shortcut. Once a child can read ake, every word built on it — bake, lake, rake, shake, snake, wake — is one quick blend away, and this AKE Word Family Worksheet turns that pattern into real reading. Instead of sounding out six separate words, the reader learns one rime, notices the silent e that makes the a say its name, and swaps the beginning sounds. That is exactly how first grade phonics builds fluency.
This first grade word families worksheet is a word bank cloze. Eight -ake words sit in the word bank at the top, and six sentences below each have one word missing. The child reads each sentence, decides which -ake word makes sense, and writes it in the answer box. Two of the bank words fit no sentence at all, so the page cannot be solved by crossing off whatever is left — every item has to be read. Work the first sentence together out loud, then let the child finish the page on their own.
What’s Included
- 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
- Answer key
- An eight-word -ake word bank with two built-in distractors
- 6 fill-in-the-blank sentences with printed answer boxes
Three things make this ake word family worksheet work in a first grade classroom. First, the words mix single consonants with the sn and sh onsets, so the page practices blending and the long a silent e pattern at the same time. Second, the sentences give each word a meaning, so a child who can decode shake also learns where the word belongs in a sentence. Third, the answer boxes are all one size, so nothing on the page hints at which word is longer and the child has to read to answer.
Teachers and parents can keep the pattern going all week. Build a word ladder on a whiteboard by changing only the first sound, or write each -ake word on a card and sort them by the number of letters before the rime. Ask the child to say a sentence of their own for the two words the page did not use. Hunt for -ake words in a favorite storybook, clap the beginning sounds, and add new ones to a family chart on the wall. A few minutes of oral practice before the page makes the writing feel easy.
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