-ate Word Family

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective

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

Vocabulary

gate, plate, crate, late, state, date

Teaching Notes

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

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🧒 Student Worksheet

Helping Material

Reading Story with Word Family

The gate leads to a big state park. We are late but still skate fast. A crate full of fruit waits inside. We share a date by the lake gate. The plate shines clean and straight.

Word Play

ate, ate, ate, ate, ate, ate

Word Family to Learn

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Sentences to Fill In

The leads to a big park.

We are but still skate fast.

A full of fruit waits inside.

We share a by the lake .

The p shines clean and straight.

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.