-ent Word Family

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

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

Vocabulary
bent, cent, dent, lent, rent, spent

Teaching Notes

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

🧒 Student Worksheet

Helping Material

Reading Story with Word Family
Kent bent a stick that he lent. He spent a cent to fix the tent. A dent on the bike made him sigh. He went to mend it and try. Now it’s fixed and good to ride.

Word Family to Learn

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Word Play

ent, ent, ent, ent, ent, ent

Sentences to Fill In

Kent a stick that he .
He a to fix the tent.
A on the bike made him sigh.
He went to mend it and try.
Now it’s fixed and good to ride.

Activities

• Act out or illustrate the story.
• Write two new sentences with -ent 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 -ent word today is:
• Now make your own sentence using some of the -ent words you learned.