2nd Grade The -ear Family Worksheets
20 printable 2nd Grade phonics worksheets on The -ear Family. Every sheet has an answer key — 20 in all. 5 activity types: Flashcards, Roll And Read, Sort And Write, Word Chain. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: The EAR Sound; say to shear; stare to stew; fall to day; 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), Roll And Read (4), Word Chain (4) and Flashcards (2).
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 5 activity types: Flashcards, Roll And Read, Sort And Write, Word Chain, Word Hunt.
All 20 worksheets in this set
- Sort And Write 1: The EAR Sound Free PDF
- Word Chain 1: say to shear Free PDF
- Word Hunt 1: The EAR Sound Free PDF
- Roll And Read 1: The EAR Sound
- Flashcards 1: The EAR Sound
- Roll And Read 2: The EAR Sound
- Sort And Write 2: The EAR Sound
- Sort And Write 3: The EAR Sound
- Word Chain 2: stare to stew
- Word Hunt 2: The EAR Sound
- Word Hunt 3: The EAR Sound
- Roll And Read 3: The EAR Sound
- Sort And Write 4: The EAR Sound
- Word Chain 3: fall to day
- Word Hunt 4: The EAR Sound
- Roll And Read 4: The EAR Sound
- Flashcards 2: The EAR Sound
- Sort And Write 5: The EAR Sound
- Word Chain 4: torn to beard
- Word Hunt 5: The EAR Sound
Teaching The -ear Family
What it is
The -ear team spells the /eer/ sound in hear, near, year, clear, and spear. It is a vowel plus r read as one unit, so the e and the a are never sounded out separately.
When a child is ready
Teach it after the -are family, once a vowel followed by r is already treated as one team.
If they struggle
The trouble is that ear has three jobs: hear, wear, and earth. Read only the /eer/ words until they are quick, then meet the other two as separate short lists so the mismatch is named rather than guessed at. For tear, read the whole sentence: a tear ran down her face, or tear the paper in half.
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