Word Family Card Game
What You Need:

Word-endings (see below to print out)
At least eight copies
 Lower-case letters (see below to print out)
At least two copies
 Cardstock paper
What to Do:
1. Cut out the cards and attach to cardstock/laminate as desired.
2. Shuffle the cards and deal 5 cards per player.
3. Place the remaining cards face down in the middle.
4. Flip over the top card and lie it face up beside the face down pile.
5. STEP ONE: The player can choose to:
 pick the top card from the face up pile and discard one of their cards (placing it
on top of the face up pile)
OR
 pick the top card from the face down pile (it will be a surprise) and discard one
of their cards (placing it on top of the face up pile)
OR
 skip STEP 1 (keep the cards they have in their hand)
6. STEP TWO: the player can then choose to:
 place cards in front of them to form ONE word family word. (the player can only
form one word per turn.
o this can be 1 word ending card (words like "at" and "an" count!)
o one lower case letter card + 1 word ending card (c-at)
o two lower case letter cards + 1 word ending card (t-h-at)
 OR if they cannot form a word family word, the player must draw a card from
the face down pile.
7. The player sounds out the word family word they made (if they made one) and it is
the next player's turn.