-eep Word Family

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

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

Vocabulary
sleep, keep, sheep, deep, creep, peep

Teaching Notes

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

🧒 Student Worksheet

Helping Material

Reading Story with Word Family
I keep a sheep near my jeep. We sleep deep under the moon. A peep from the sheep wakes me. We creep quietly by the creek. The night is calm and steep in dreams.

Word Family to Learn

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Word Play

eep, eep, eep, eep, eep, eep

Sentences to Fill In

I a near my jeep.
We under the moon.
A from the wakes me.
We quietly by the creek.
The night is calm and steep in dreams.

Activities

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