Am Words Worksheet: Read, Match, and Fill-in the Blanks!
This worksheet builds phonics skills within the 'am' word family — words like 'ham,' 'jam,' and 'Sam' — by having children read words aloud, match them to pictures, and fill in missing letters to complete them. For four- and five-year-olds, working within a single rime family like '-am' helps children generalize a decoding pattern they can apply to many new words, rather than sounding out every word from scratch.
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Month 3: Learning & Development | Ages 4-5Curriculum
How to use this worksheet
First, read the 'am' family words on the page aloud together, sounding out each one slowly. Then, have your child look at the pictures and draw a line matching each word to the picture it describes. Finally, look at the words with missing letters and have your child figure out which letter completes each one, writing it into the blank space. Reread each completed word together as a final check.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Crayons
Extension activities
- •Create a matching game with flashcards pairing 'am' family words and their pictures.
- •Write simple sentences together using 'am' words, like 'I like jam.'
- •Find other words that rhyme with 'am' that aren't on the worksheet, like 'ram' or 'clam.'
- •Build 'am' family words using magnetic letters or letter tiles.
- •Read a short rhyming book together and listen for any 'am' family words that appear.
Tips for parents and teachers
Encourage children to sound out the words as they read and write them, breaking each one into its beginning sound plus the '-am' chunk rather than guessing from the picture alone. Provide positive reinforcement and celebrate their successes, since recognizing a whole word family is a big step toward independent reading.
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Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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