-ag Word Family

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Students will read and use -ag family words to build phonics and fluency.

Vocabulary
bag, rag, wag, tag, flag, zigzag

Teaching Notes

• Blend onsets with -ag.
• Read the story aloud and highlight -ag words.
• Practice onset-rime segmentation with students.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Helping Material

Reading Story with Word Family
The dog saw a bag and gave it a wag. A red flag was stuck to a rag. We will tag the bag with a name. We run in a zigzag with the flag. It is fun to wave the flag by the bag.

Word Family to Learn

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Word Play

ag, ag, ag, ag, ag, ag

Sentences to Fill In

The dog saw a and gave it a .
A red was stuck to a .
We will the with a name.
We run in a with the .
It is fun to wave the by the .

Activities

• Act out or illustrate the story.
• Write two new sentences with -ag words.

Games

• “Missing Letter”: fill in the hidden onsets in Word Play.
• “Speed Build”: say each full word out loud after filling in.

Reflection

• My favorite -ag word today is:
• Now make your own sentence using some of the -ag words you learned.