2nd Grade The -are Family Worksheets
26 printable 2nd Grade phonics worksheets on The -are Family. Every sheet has an answer key — 26 in all. 6 activity types: Find And Color, Flashcards, Roll And Read, Sort And Write. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: The -are Sound; rare to fare; teach, air; chair to tear; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 14 to 35 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 2.
What is in this set: Sort And Write (5), Word Hunt (5), Find And Color (4), Flashcards (4), Roll And Read (4) and Word Chain (4).
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Grade 2, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. Preview a reading week to see how its lessons run. See every program →
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Includes 6 activity types: Find And Color, Flashcards, Roll And Read, Sort And Write, Word Chain, Word Hunt.
All 26 worksheets in this set
- Sort And Write 1: The -are Sound Free PDF
- Word Chain 1: rare to fare Free PDF
- Word Hunt 1: The -are Sound Free PDF
- Sort And Write 2: teach, air
- Word Chain 2: chair to tear
- Word Hunt 2: teach, air
- Roll And Read 1: The -are Sound
- Roll And Read 2: wear, hair, air and pair
- Flashcards 1: The -are Sound
- Flashcards 2: hair, fair, air and chair
- Word Hunt 3: The -are Sound
- Find And Color 1: The -are Sound
- Roll And Read 3: The -are Sound
- Word Hunt 4: The -are Sound
- Find And Color 2: The -are Sound
- Find And Color 3: The -are Sound
- Sort And Write 3: The -are Sound
- Flashcards 3: The -are Sound
- Sort And Write 4: The -are Sound
- Word Chain 3: mare to rare
- Word Hunt 5: The -are Sound
- Roll And Read 4: The -are Sound
- Find And Color 4: The -are Sound
- Flashcards 4: The -are Sound
- Sort And Write 5: The -are Sound
- Word Chain 4: toy to fur
Teaching The -are Family
What it is
The -are family is the /air/ sound in care, share, dare, glare, and square. It is a vowel followed by r, so the a says neither its short nor its long sound; the same sound is also spelled air in chair and pair.
When a child is ready
Teach it after ar, or, er, ir, and ur are read as single teams.
If they struggle
If the child reads care as car, teach are as one chunk with one keyword and read the family straight down: care, dare, hare, share, spare, square. Then set one ar word against one are word (car and care, star and stare) so the child hears that the silent e changes the whole team, not just the vowel.
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