North Pole Word Families: Christmas Word Family Game

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Each gingerbread house is a word family, like -at. Your child listens to a word and taps the first letter that builds it. North Pole Word Families is a Christmas word family game for kindergarten and 1st grade. It works in the browser on iPad, Chromebook or laptop and comes with the membership: 14 days free, then $9 a month or $79 a year. We'll email you 3 days before your first charge. Cancel anytime.

North Pole Word Families game cover: word families practice for K–1

What your child does

Each gingerbread house is a word family, like -at. Your child listens to a word and taps the first letter that builds it.

North Pole Word Families, level 1: a gingerbread house showing ? an, with presents f, v and j to pick the first letter
A real screen from North Pole Word Families. Listen to the word and tap its first letter.

The skill it builds

Word families: -at and -an, then -ig, -op and -ug, then -en, -et, -ot and -ip. Hints say to say the word slowly.

How to try it

North Pole Word Families comes with Bright Minds Club membership: 14 days free, then $9 a month or $79 a year. We'll email you 3 days before your first charge. Cancel anytime. Or try a no-account game first: Piggy Bank Coin Counting, Which Is Worth More?, Shape Safari, Word Builder, Tick Tock Time.

Play North Pole Word Families in Bright Minds Club. All games, every kid in the family. Try it for 14 days.

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At a glance

Grades
Kindergarten and 1st grade
Subject
Reading
Skill
Phonics, rhyming and spelling
Learning trail
Reading trail, stop 35 of 38
Access
Members (14-day trial)
Good to know
A “Tap me for a hint” helper

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