1st grade phonics worksheets
Letter sounds, blends, vowel teams, and everything that makes words decodable. Every phonics skill we teach at 1st grade, one to a page. Each prints as a PDF with its answer key, and no two prints are the same.
Phonics & word study skills for 1st grade
- Alphabetical order ABC order · answer key Alphabetical order means lining words up the way the alphabet goes. Look at the first letter; if two words share it, move one letter deeper and compare again.
- Beginning blends (bl, cr, st) Sorting · answer key A blend is two consonants that work side by side, and you can still hear both: bl in black, cr in crab, st in star.
- Beginning digraphs (sh, ch, th) Sorting · answer key Two letters can team up to make one new sound: sh in ship, ch in chip, th in thin.
- Counting syllables Sorting · answer key Syllables are the beats in a word. Clap them out: cat has one, apple has two, banana has three.
- Ending blends (st, nd, mp) Sorting · answer key An ending blend is two consonants at the end of a word, and you can still hear both: the st in nest, the nd in hand, the mp in jump.
- Ending digraphs (sh, ch, th) Sorting · answer key Letter teams work at the ends of words too: fish ends in sh, lunch ends in ch, bath ends in th.
- Fry instant words Tracing · answer key Fry words are the words you meet most often in books. Know them on sight and reading speeds up.
- Long a vowel teams (ai, ay) Sorting · answer key Two vowels can team up to say one long sound. Ai and ay both say the long a: rain, play.
- Long e vowel teams (ee, ea) Sorting · answer key Ee and ea both say the long e sound: see, eat. The tricky part is remembering which team each word uses.
- Long o vowel teams (oa, ow) Sorting · answer key Oa and ow both say the long o sound: boat, snow. Oa works inside words; ow usually takes the end.
- R-controlled vowels (ar, or, er) Sorting · answer key When r follows a vowel, it bosses the sound around: car, corn, and bird don't use their short vowels.
- Short a word families Sorting · answer key Words in the same family share their ending: cat, hat, and bat are all -at words.
- Short e word families Sorting · answer key Words in the same family share their ending: pet and wet are -et words; bell and shell are -ell words.
- Short i word families Sorting · answer key Words in the same family share their ending: win and chin are -in words; kick and stick are -ick words.
- Short o word families Sorting · answer key Words in the same family share their ending: hop and stop are -op words; rock and clock are -ock words.
- Short u word families Sorting · answer key Words in the same family share their ending: bug and rug are -ug words; jump and bump are -ump words.
- Sight words Tracing · answer key Sight words are the little words you see everywhere. Learn them by heart and reading gets faster.
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