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Word Families & Rimes Flashcards
131 word families from -ab to -y, each card giving four or five words in the family — the decoding-by-analogy drill behind early reading fluency.
Free to play in your browser — no account, no install. The first 30 cards are free forever. The deck opens with -ab, -ace, -ack and -ad and runs to 131 cards in all.
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Word Families & Rimes flashcards — the free 30
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- -ab
- cab, jab, lab, tab, grab
- -ace
- face, race, place, space, trace
- -ack
- back, pack, sack, black, track
- -ad
- bad, dad, mad, sad, glad
- -ade
- made, fade, grade, shade, trade
- -ag
- bag, rag, tag, wag, flag
- -ail
- mail, nail, sail, tail, snail
- -ain
- rain, main, train, chain, brain
- -air
- air, hair, chair, pair, stair
- -ake
- bake, cake, lake, make, snake
- -ale
- pale, tale, whale, scale, male
- -all
- ball, call, fall, tall, small
- -am
- ham, jam, ram, clam, slam
- -ame
- came, game, name, same, flame
- -amp
- camp, lamp, damp, stamp, ramp
- -an
- can, fan, man, pan, van
- -and
- band, hand, land, sand, stand
- -ang
- bang, hang, rang, sang, fang
- -ank
- bank, tank, thank, blank, drank
- -ap
- cap, map, nap, tap, clap
- -ar
- car, jar, far, bar, star
- -ark
- bark, dark, mark, park, shark
- -art
- cart, part, start, chart, smart
- -ash
- cash, dash, trash, crash, splash
- -ass
- class, glass, grass, pass, brass
- -at
- bat, cat, hat, mat, flat
- -atch
- catch, match, patch, batch, hatch
- -ate
- date, gate, late, plate, skate
- -ave
- cave, gave, save, wave, brave
- -aw
- jaw, paw, saw, draw, straw
Word Families & Rimes flashcards — questions people ask
- How many cards are in the Word Families & Rimes flashcard deck?
- The Word Families & Rimes deck on PuzzlePage has 131 cards. The first 30 are free to play and free to download with no account; the remaining 101 unlock for $2.99 as a one-time payment, or with the $11.99-a-month Study Pack that covers every deck on the site. The high-utility rimes plus the common extras come to 131 families. That is the whole set worth teaching, not a padded list.
- What is on the word families & rimes flashcards?
- 131 word families from -ab to -y, each card giving four or five words in the family — the decoding-by-analogy drill behind early reading fluency. Cards look like this: -ab → cab, jab, lab, tab, grab; -ace → face, race, place, space, trace. The deck is written for k–2 and filed under early years.
- Can I study word families & rimes flashcards online for free?
- Yes. The first 30 cards of the Word Families & Rimes deck play free in any web browser at puzzlepage.app, with no account, no app and no card details. It works on a phone, tablet, Chromebook, laptop or classroom projector. Practice mode flips through the cards with nothing scored; quiz mode makes you answer each card before it flips, times the run and scores it.
- Are the word families & rimes flashcards accurate?
- Every card in the Word Families & Rimes deck was read and fact-checked by a subject-matter specialist before it went on sale, as was every other card on PuzzlePage — 5,420 cards across 30 decks. The audit found and fixed real defects, and one deck was withdrawn from sale entirely rather than shipped with a known problem. That is the difference from a user-generated flashcard site, where the cards are whatever a stranger typed and nobody is accountable for them.
- Can I print the word families & rimes flashcards?
- Yes. The Word Families & Rimes cards are available as a printable double-sided PDF to cut up, as well as playable in the browser. The first 30 cards are free to download; the full 131-card printable is included in the $11.99-a-month Study Pack.
- How should I use the Word Families & Rimes deck to revise?
- Start in practice mode and go through the Word Families & Rimes deck once without scoring, to find out which cards you already know — the deck is dealt in a different order every time you open it, so you are recalling the card rather than its position. Then switch to quiz mode, which times and scores the run and lets you re-run only the cards you missed. Use the "flip deck" control to swap which side is the question: recognising an answer is much easier than producing one, so a deck you find easy one way round is usually the harder and more useful drill the other way. Two or three short sessions across a week beat one long one, which is the whole reason flashcards work.
- What grade level are the word families & rimes flashcards for?
- The Word Families & Rimes deck is written for k–2. Because the cards are plain term-and-answer pairs, they are also used outside that band — by adults revising early years, and by teachers running them as a whole-class starter on a projector.