3rd Grade Rhyming & Word Families Worksheets
41 printable 3rd Grade phonics worksheets on Rhyming & Word Families. Every sheet has an answer key — 41 in all. 2 activity types: 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: are and air; square to fare; ew and ue; sing to string; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 3 to 35 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 3. Every grade is on one page: Spelling Worksheets.
What is in this set: Word Chain (31) and Sort And Write (10).
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Grade 3, 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 2 activity types: Sort And Write, Word Chain.
All 41 worksheets in this set
- Sort And Write 1: are and air Free PDF
- Word Chain 1: square to fare Free PDF
- Sort And Write 2: ew and ue Free PDF
- Word Chain 2: sing to string
- Word Chain 3: rock to stock
- Word Chain 4: rain to brain
- Word Chain 5: ball to small
- Word Chain 6: snack to rack
- Word Chain 7: scream to stream
- Word Chain 8: night to right
- Sort And Write 3: ight and ite
- Word Chain 9: hill to fill
- Sort And Write 4: eak and eek
- Word Chain 10: name to game
- Sort And Write 5: one and own
- Word Chain 11: cake to wake
- Word Chain 12: trash to dash
- Word Chain 13: catch to hatch
- Sort And Write 6: eet and eat
- Word Chain 14: phone to bone
- Word Chain 15: say to way
- Word Chain 16: stick to quick
- Sort And Write 7: ows and ose
- Word Chain 17: blow to know
- Word Chain 18: lip to zip
- Sort And Write 8: ain and ane
- Word Chain 19: chin to thin
- Word Chain 20: sit to hit
- Word Chain 21: fear to year
- Word Chain 22: hot to spot
- Word Chain 23: my to sky
- Sort And Write 9: ee and e
- Word Chain 24: nap to cap
- Word Chain 25: draw to jaw
- Word Chain 26: fell to sell
- Word Chain 27: wet to yet
- Word Chain 28: chew to stew
- Sort And Write 10: ed and ead
- Word Chain 29: dad to pad
- Word Chain 30: car to tar
- Word Chain 31: tail to snail
Teaching Rhyming & Word Families
What it is
A word family is a group of words that share an ending: cat, hat, mat, sat. Reading by family shows a child that changing one letter changes the word. In Grade 3 the rhyme is spelled two ways: the child sorts pairs such as are and air, ew and ue, and ight and ite, and builds chains such as square, rare, mare, hare.
When a child is ready
Begin once the child knows the short vowels and can hear rhymes.
If they struggle
Build the words with letter tiles, swapping only the first letter. If the child guesses, cover the onset and read the family part first, then add the new first sound.
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