Jingle Bell Word Family Sort

This festive and fun jingle bell word family sort is sure to be a hit with your children this Christmas season. It’s a great activity for beginning readers, or use it with more advanced readers to practice new words.

We have been working on word families lately. We started with -at words in our Room on the Broom Race to Learn -at Words. Aiden requested to learn -ap words next. We thought of all of the -ap words we knew, and I wrote them down. Then, I typed them up on the computer and printed out word cards. {You can also just write them by hand.}

You’ll need the following materials for this activity.

word cards with the sight words or word families you would like to practice
jingle bells {one for each word}
string
hole punch
boxes or containers {one for each word family plus one extra to hold the jingle bell words at the start}

I punched holes in the word cards and tied them onto the jingle bells. I placed the jingle bell words into a box.

On another box I taped the word ending -ap. I taped the word ending -at onto a Christmas tin.

Have your child pick up a jingle bell and read the word. Then, place the word into the correct container. Words that end in -at go into the at container and words that end in -ap go into the ap container.

Variations

Write the words directly onto the jingle bells.
Turn the sorting into a race. Place the box of jingle bells on one side of the room and the word family containers on the other side of the room. Choose a jingle bell from the box and run to the other side of the room.
Practice sight words, letters, or numbers instead of word families.

Jingle Bell Word Family Sort