Word Families Cut and Paste 3 Levels

About this resource

The first day a child stops sounding out every letter and starts reading by pattern instead. -at,

-an, -ap, -ig and -op: read the ending once, then just change the front. It sits on this store's

shelf exactly between CVC Words Cut and Paste (one sound at a time) and Blends Cut and Paste (two

consonants glued into one sound).

Five days, each with a scripted plan page and three student levels: fifteen worksheets and five

lesson plans in one PDF. The cut pieces print on the child's own sheet, so nothing gets separated

on the way to the desk.

What A Page Looks Like

Every worksheet is a house. The day's ending sits on the roof in big letters, each picture sits in

its own window with the answer slot beside it, and the cut pieces stand in a column next to the

house at a size a five-year-old can cut and hold. The pictures are full-color, big enough to name

across a table, and every picture is a picture of exactly the word it stands for. A child who has

done one page knows what to do on the next one: say the picture, glue the letter.

How The Three Levels Work

Level 1: the ending is already printed and the first-letter box is tinted, so the only decision is

the sound at the very front. Pieces match slots one for one: there is no wrong piece to pick up.

Level 2: no tint, and one extra letter on the strip that starts no real word with that day's

ending.

Level 3: independent. No letters, no printed word at all: a picture only, and a field of whole-word

cards that includes a genuine look-alike (map next to mop, van next to fan and pan, rat next to

bat, cat and hat). Reading the whole word is a harder, different skill than building it, and this

is the page that checks it.

The level is shown on the child's sheet as a color tone and a row of dots and nothing else. No

student page says "Level 1" in words a child reads, so the three levels look the same on the desk.

Five Days, One Family Each

1. The -at Family

2. The -an Family

3. The -ap Family

4. The -ig Family

5. The -op Family

Every Picture Names Its Word, Not A Guess At One

-ap and -op each run two pictures, not six. Cap and map; mop and top. That is not a shortcut: it

is every real, everyday noun in either family a picture can show without guessing at what it is.

-ig runs one picture (pig) plus four more real -ig words (dig, big, fig, jig, rig) that you say out

loud and the child builds by ear, because none of them has a picture that names it. On those lines

the window shows a listening mark instead of a picture. Rat has no picture either; on the -at

family it is the extra word card at Level 3, never a picture. A title that says "six words" on a

page that can only honestly draw two is a bigger problem than a page that says two and means it.

What Is In The File

• 26 pages, one PDF
• 5 scripted lesson plan pages: a real script in quotation marks a substitute could read cold, three

level notes, three "if a student is stuck" tips, and a data box on every plan

• 15 student worksheets (5 skills x 3 levels)
• 2 pages of answer keys, with every Level 2 spare letter named
• 1-page "how to use this packet" guide
• Name and date line and a scissors line on every worksheet
• Clear, child-friendly print throughout; the house frame is drawn in heavy black line, so a grayscale

copy still works and there is no separate B&W file because you do not need one

Who This Is For

Self-contained, resource and early-intervention classrooms, and any K-2 room ready to move a student

from single sounds into whole-chunk reading. Works alongside this store's CVC and Blends packs, or on

its own once a student reliably blends a three-sound word.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

This is a print-and-cut worksheet packet with a scripted plan page in front of each skill. It is not

a fillable form, not a full curriculum, and not a claim about how quickly any student will read by

pattern: every objective on a plan page is written the way a classroom goal is written, with nothing

clinical, no timeline and no eligibility claim attached to it.