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-ag, -ig, -ab Families

All the word families we have learned so far (-at, -an, -it) have short vowels. Each one has a vowel ('a' or 'i') followed by a consonant ('t' or 'n'), and this is what makes the vowel short. Here's the rule:

Here are three new word families. All of these have short vowels.

-ag, -ig, -ab

Try hard to put the word family together the first time you say it! This will make reading go much faster!

Pay attention to each letter you see to catch which word family you are looking at.
Listen to yourself say the word family name.
Look at the letters.
Think about how the family name sounds.

Let's start with one word from each of these word families:

bag

big

cab

Now we're ready to read all the words in the -ag, -ig, -ab families!