Word Families Song

Children can have fun, sing, dance, roar and learn about rhyming words and word families with Rhymin’ Lion.

Word families (also known as phonograms or “chunks”) are groups of words that have a common feature or pattern. They have some of the same combinations of letters and a similar sound. For example bat, cat, hat, sat are a family of words with the “-at” sound and letter combination in common.

Follow Rhymin’ Lion and do his dance moves as he teaches many of the most commonly used word families.

Learning word families really helps children develop their reading skills by enabling them to see patterns in words. As emergent readers recognize word patterns they are able to chunk the sounds instead of sounding out each letter, enabling then to read words faster and easier promoting fluency.

So shake, clap, move, groove and get some great dance exercise in too. Your children will learn about word families, beginning sounds and rhyming words with Rhymin’ Lion.

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