The document provides instructions and materials for students to practice writing words ending in "-ale" and creating sentence books with those words. It includes worksheets with spaces for students to write words like "whale", "female", and "scale". It also has pages for a sentence book where students can write sentences using "-ale" words and draw pictures to illustrate them. Cut-out pages are meant to be bound together to form books.

1. Cut along the dashed lines. Punch a hole through the circle and bind together with a ring or ribbon.
Students can practice writing the word twice, and then draw a picture to illustrate the word.
__ _________’s
BOOK
whale female
///// /////
male sale scale
///// ///// /////
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2. Word Families Worksheet #1: -ALE Words
Name: _________________
S C E
A E
S E
A L M L A L
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3. Word Families Worksheet #2: -ALE Words
Name: _________________
Write these words in the sentences below.
female whale scale
////////.
1. I see a
The /////// lives in the ocean.
////////.
2. I see a
The /////// weighs our fruit.
3. I see a////////.
My mom is a ///////.
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4. Word Families Worksheet #3: -ALE Words
Name: _________________
Finish the pattern by writing in the words below.
scale male whale
1.
///////
2.
///////
3.
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5. Word Families Sentence Book: -ALE Words
Write a sentence using the word found on the bottom of
each page. Then draw a picture of your sentence.
Cut apart the pages and tie together with yarn.
Use the additional pages for extra words that fit
with the word family.
My “-ALE”
Word Family Book
by
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whale
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6. //////////////////
female
//////////////////
male
//////////////////
sale
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7. //////////////////
scale
//////////////////
____________
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_____________
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8. Word Families Worksheet #4: -ALE Words
Name: _________________
Circle the words that rhyme with
SCALE
Bonus!
Write 2 more words that rhyme with SCALE:
_____________________________________
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9. Answer Key: -ALE Words
Worksheet #1
1. scale
2. male
3. sale
Worksheet #2
1. whale, whale
2. scale, scale
3. female, female
Worksheet #3
1. sale
2. whale
3. male
Worksheet #4
male,
female
whale
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