1st Grade Phonics Worksheets
Letter sounds, blends, vowel teams, and everything that makes words decodable. These are the phonics skills we cover at the 1st grade level. Every sheet prints as a PDF with its answer key, and no two prints are the same.
Phonics & Word Study skills for 1st grade
- 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 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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