Language Arts Grade Six

Unit Six, Lesson Four: Word Families

  1. mask
  2. trash
  3. flash
  4. gash
  5. flask
  6. geology
  7. landforms
  8. basin
  9. range
  10. plateau
  1. valley
  2. summit
  3. pass
  4. trail
  5. route
  6. survive
  7. beaver
  8. trapper
  9. individual
  10. rugged
Word Families

Given a word such as "gather", we can generate a word family: 


		gather
		gathers
		gathered
		gathering
A word family is just all the forms of a word which contain the same (unaltered) root word. (In some places this definition may be changed to allow altered versions of the root word, but in this lesson we stick to unaltered versions of the root word.)

Here are some more word families: 


		rug
		rugs
		rugged
		

		drink
		drinks
		drinking
		drinker

		four
		fours
		fourth

		floor
		floors
		floored
		flooring
		
		pick
		picks
		picked
		picking
		picker

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