Need a fun hands on project for teaching and practicing rhyming and spelling words with LONG VOWELS? Look no further. These paper bag book projects will help your students with rhyming by word family and will help them decode words in chunks. It is best for small group instruction in kindergarten through second grade or in a literacy workstation run by a parent volunteer or teaching assistant.

Long A Book:

• Cover-Introducing the AKE family
• Building Words that Rhyme with AKE
• Listening for Words that Rhyme with AKE
• Building Words that Rhyme with AME
• Listening for Words that Rhyme with AME
• I Spy Words that Rhyme with AKE, AME, ATE
• Picture Sort for Words that Rhyme with ATE and ALE
• Draw and Label Words with long A (CVCe)

Long E Book:

• Cover-Introducing the EAK family
• Building Words that Rhyme with Beak
• Listening for Words that Rhyme with EAK/EEK
• Building Words that Rhyme with EAT/EET
• Listening for Words that Rhyme with EAT/EET
• I Spy Words that Rhyme with EAK, EEK, EAT, AND EET
• Picture Sort for Words that Rhyme with EED/EAD AND EAL/EEL
• Draw and Label Words with EE/EA

*Differentiated building words pages for kindergarten. (pp 2, 4)

Long I Book:

• Cover-Introducing the IME family
• Building Words that Rhyme with TIME
• Listening for Words that Rhyme with ICE
• Building Words that Rhyme with -IVE
• Listening for Words that Rhyme with -ITE
• I Spy Words that Rhyme with -IME, -ICE, -IVE, -ITE
• Picture Sort for Words that Rhyme with -INE AND -IDE
• Draw and Label Words with long I (CVCe)

*Differentiated building words pages for Kindergarten (p2 and p4)*

Long O Book:

• Cover-Introducing the OAT family
• Building Words that Rhyme with OAT
• Listening for Words that Rhyme with OAT/OTE
• Building Words that Rhyme with -ONE
• Listening for Words that Rhyme with -OAN/OTE
• I Spy Words that Rhyme with -OAT, -OTE, -OAN, -OTE
• Picture Sort for Words that Rhyme with -OSE AND -OLE
• Draw and Label Words with long O (CVVC, CVCe)

*Differentiated building words pages for Kindergarten (p2 and p4)*

Long U Book:

• Cover-Introducing LONG U
• Building Words with LONG U
• Listening for Words that Rhyme with BLUE
• Building Words with LONG U
• Matching Rhyming Words
• I Spy Words with LONG U-word find and sort
• Picture Sort for Words with LONG O and LONG U
• Draw and Label Words with LONG U

*Differentiated building words pages for Kindergarten (p2 and p4)*

Each book is 8 pages in length at completion and will take a week to do. They require 2 paper lunch bags per child to create.