Words you just know
You don't sound out your best friend's name — you know it on sight. Sight words like 'the' and 'said' work that way, and rhyming families like cat-hat-bat let you read a whole bunch once you know one.
Words we just know
Some words don't sound out neatly — like 'the', 'said', and 'you'. We learn these sight words by heart so reading flows. Rhyming words share an ending sound, which helps us read whole word families.
Word family -at: cat, hat, bat, sat, mat
Lab · Make a rhyme
- Start with the ending '-an'.
- Add a letter in front: c, f, m, p…
- Read each word you build.
What you should see: You get can, fan, man, pan — a whole rhyming word family from one ending.