-y Word Family

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

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

Vocabulary
cry, fly, shy, dry, try, sky

Teaching Notes

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

🧒 Student Worksheet

Helping Material

Reading Story with Word Family
I try to fly in the blue sky. A shy bird will cry nearby. We dry our clothes on a line high. I will try again to fly high. The sky smiles when clouds pass by.

Word Family to Learn

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Word Play

y, y, y, y, y, y

Sentences to Fill In

I to in the blue .
A bird will nearby.
We our clothes on a line high.
I will again to high.
The smiles when clouds pass by.

Activities

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