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Provide the child with all of the letters plus a number of copies of the phonics ending you are working on.  Let's use "an" as an example.  Ask the children to glue the squares onto a piece of paper to make as many different words as they can.  

I like to make a small booklet this way by cutting 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheets of paper into three 8 1/2 x 3 2/3 inch pieces and stapling them to create:  

• Glue one AN square onto the title page
• On subsequent pages glue a lower case letter square with the AN square to form as many words as possible:  (or print the words if you prefer that to building them with the flash cards)
  • ban, can, and fan are examples
• STRETCH:  to stretch this exercise, have the children use the word in a sentence and write the sentences in their book:
  • The school will ban pokemon cards if we fight over them.
  • I can do phonics.
  • When it is hot, I fan myself.

• Word Family Endings Flash Cards
    
  • Set 1:  an, ap, at
  • Set 2:  ab, ad, am
  • Set 3:  ack, and, ash
  • Set 4:  ail, ain, air
  • Set 5:  ake, ate
  • Set 6:  ale, ame, ay
  • Set 7:  all, aw
  • Set 8:  ar, ark, art
  • Set 9:  ank, ink
  • Set 10: ed, en, et
  • Set 11: eck, ell, est
  • Set 12: in, ip, it
      

• Lower Case Letters Flash Cards
    
  • a thru f   (color)   (B&W)
  • g thru l   (color)   (B&W)
  • m thru r   (color)   (B&W)
  • s thru x    (color)   (B&W)
  • y and z    (color)   (B&W)