-ake Word Family

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

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

Vocabulary
bake, cake, lake, rake, snake, flake

Teaching Notes

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

🧒 Student Worksheet

Helping Material

Reading Story with Word Family
We bake a cake by the lake. A snake hides under the rake. The flake falls on the cake top. I wake and take a piece to share. It tastes great near the lake.

Word Family to Learn

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Word Play

ake, ake, ake, ake, ake, ake

Sentences to Fill In

We a by the .
A hides under the .
The f falls on the top.
I wake and take a piece to share.
It tastes great near the .

Activities

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