-ill Word Family

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

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

Vocabulary
hill, pill, will, grill, spill, still

Teaching Notes

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

🧒 Student Worksheet

Helping Material

Reading Story with Word Family
Jill climbs the hill to grill. She will fill her cup and chill. A spill makes her laugh still. They grill and talk at will. It’s a happy day on the hill.

Word Family to Learn

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Word Play

ill, ill, ill, ill, ill, ill

Sentences to Fill In

Jill climbs the to .
She fill her cup and c.
A s makes her laugh .
They and talk at .
It’s a happy day on the .

Activities

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