-ide Word Family
👩🏫 Teacher’s Guide
Objective
Students will read and use -ide family words to build phonics and fluency.
Vocabulary
ride, slide, hide, side, wide, tide
Teaching Notes
- Blend onsets with -ide.
- Read the story aloud and highlight -ide words.
- Practice onset-rime segmentation with students.
---
🧒 Student Worksheet
Helping Material
No videos found.
Reading Story with Word Family

We ride down the wide slide. A tide comes from the side. We hide behind a tree to play. The ride is smooth all the way. The wide slide gives joy today.
Word Play
ide, ide, ide, ide, ide, ide
Word Family to Learn
, , , , ,
Sentences to Fill In
We down the .
A comes from the .
We behind a tree to play.
The is smooth all the way.
The gives joy today.
Activities
- Act out or illustrate the story.
- Write two new sentences with -ide 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 -ide word today is:
- Now make your own sentence using some of the -ide words you learned.