-unk Word Family

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

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

Vocabulary
bunk, junk, trunk, skunk, chunk, sunk

Teaching Notes

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

🧒 Student Worksheet

Helping Material

Reading Story with Word Family
We found a trunk with junk inside. A skunk toy and a sunk ship hide. We bunk under a tent for fun. A chunk of wood helps us play. What a cool junk trunk!

Word Family to Learn

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Word Play

unk, unk, unk, unk, unk, unk

Sentences to Fill In

We found a with inside.
A toy and a ship hide.
We under a tent for fun.
A of wood helps us play.
What a cool !

Activities

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