-ate Word Family

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

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

Vocabulary
gate, plate, skate, crate, late, date

Teaching Notes

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

🧒 Student Worksheet

Helping Material

Reading Story with Word Family
The gate opens to a plate of fruit. I skate with a mate who’s not late. A crate holds apples for a date. We wait and chat by the gate. The plate drops but we clean the slate.

Word Family to Learn

, , , , ,

Word Play

ate, ate, ate, ate, ate, ate

Sentences to Fill In

The opens to a p of fruit.
I with a mate who’s not .
A holds apples for a .
We wait and chat by the .
The p drops but we clean the s.

Activities

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