Kindergarten phonics worksheets
Letter sounds, blends, vowel teams, and everything that makes words decodable. Every phonics skill we teach at kindergarten, 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 kindergarten
- 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.
- Dolch pre-primer sight words Tracing · answer key The pre-primer words are your first forty sight words: little words like the, my, and jump that show up in almost every book you'll ever open.
- Dolch primer sight words Tracing · answer key The primer words are the second Dolch list: 52 words like came, went, and please that turn single words into real sentences.
- 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.
- 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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