Spider Word Families
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our free email feed. Thanks for visiting!We are almost halfway through October and that means Halloween is just around the corner. So it’s the perfect time to overcome my arachnophobia and share a free printable spider game with all of you. It is a fun-filled way to help children learn word families – groups of words that share the same sound and spelling. Getting ready to play is amazingly simple. Print out the free game from my Teachers Pay Teachers page. Then cut out all 24 spiders. (That’s a lot of goose...
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