The -ake word family
Printable list of -ake family words · 1 page
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The -ake family is a silent e family: the final e is silent and makes the a say its name, so cake has a long a. It's one of Wylie and Durrell's 37 common rimes and a friendly first long vowel family.
This list has bake, cake, fake, lake, make, rake, take and wake, plus brake, flake, snake and stake with blends and shake with sh. Make and take are high-frequency words, so this family shows up often in early books.
Put it next to -ack to see the difference a silent e makes: back and bake, rack and rake, snack and snake.
Tips for using it
- Compare short and long: back/bake, snack/snake, tack/take.
- Have your child loop the a and the e together with one finger before reading.
Variations
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What words are in the -ake family?
Bake, cake, fake, lake, make, rake, take and wake, plus brake, flake, shake, snake and stake.
What makes the a long in cake?
The silent e at the end. In a vowel-consonant-e word, the e makes the first vowel say its name.