-ale Word Family

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

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

Vocabulary
pale, sale, tale, whale, scale, male

Teaching Notes

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

🧒 Student Worksheet

Helping Material

Reading Story with Word Family
A whale tells a tale in the sea. We see a sale sign near the pale gate. A male crab moves under a scale. The tale makes us smile and clap. The whale dives fast after the tale.

Word Family to Learn

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Word Play

ale, ale, ale, ale, ale, ale

Sentences to Fill In

A tells a in the sea.
We see a sign near the gate.
A crab moves under a .
The makes us smile and clap.
The dives fast after the .

Activities

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