-own Word Family

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

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

Vocabulary
brown, clown, down, frown, town, crown

Teaching Notes

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

🧒 Student Worksheet

Helping Material

Reading Story with Word Family
A brown clown falls down in town. He wears a crown that makes us frown. The clown goes around the town again. We lie down and laugh with the clown. A crown shines bright on his head.

Word Family to Learn

, , , , ,

Word Play

own, own, own, own, own, own

Sentences to Fill In

A falls in .
He wears a that makes us .
The goes around the again.
We lie and laugh with the .
A shines bright on his head.

Activities

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