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Fill in the missing letters in 12 -at family words, with an answer key · 1 page + answer key
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Every item on this sheet ends in -at and is missing its beginning. Your child tries each choice in front of -at, writes the one that makes a real word, and reads it. The wrong choices make nonsense words (like jat or zat), so there's one right answer per item even though many letters can start an -at word.
Some answers are single letters (c, h, m) and some are blends or digraphs (fl, ch, th), so the sheet gets a little harder as your child goes.
The -at family is often the first word family children learn. When it's easy, move on to -an and then mix the two.
Tips for using it
- Read every choice in the blank aloud: 'jat, cat, zat. Which one is a word?'
- Point out that the -at chunk never changes; only the beginning does.
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Why are some choices nonsense words?
So each item has exactly one right answer. Reading a non-word and rejecting it is real decoding practice.
What comes after the -at family?
Usually other short a families (-an, -ap, -ag), then short i families like -ig and -in.