Are you looking for some fun word family activities and games to use for your kindergarten and first grade phonics centers? The activities practice with the short E vowel. The word families used are ed, eck, eg, ell, en, est, et (some CVCC patterns for activities).It’s important for young learners to see word chunks to help them build reading fluency. Teaching word families is a way to help them with this. With the engaging & fun games and activities in this unit, your students will not even