1st Grade Phonics Worksheets

Our free, printable 1st grade phonics worksheets with answers help kids blossom into enthusiastic and skilled readers with impeccable pronunciation and reading skills. This collection reinforces foundational skills by exploring topics such as common consonant digraphs, breaking words into syllables, and irregularly spelled words.

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Circling Short A Words

Transform young readers into champs with these worksheets where they have to circle the pictures whose names contain a short "a" sound.

Coloring Short E Words

Color the popcorn kernels, gumballs, and Easter eggs that contain words with a short "e" sound in this collection of 1st grade phonics pdfs.

Completing Sentences Using Short I Words

Utilize the word box as a guide to fill in the missing words in this set of sentences. All the words in the box contain short I.

Completing Sentences Using Short I Words

Circling Short O Words

Instruct young readers to read each word and circle the word whose "O" makes a short sound in this bundle of printable worksheets.

Coloring Pictures with the Short U Sound

Introduce the short "U" sound to young readers with this collection of worksheets. Say the name of the pictures and color the pictures with the short U sound.

Unscrambling Silent E Words

Review silent E words by unscrambling the letters and forming the silent E word for each picture in this collection of printable worksheets.

Unscrambling Silent E Words

Identifying Words with a Silent Letter

Practice identifying the silent letters with these pdfs where the kids have to read the words, color the words containing silent letters. find the silent letter.

Identifying Vowel Digraphs EA, IE, and UI

Filled with water droplets, flowers, and bubbles, this bundle of first grade phonics worksheets requires kids to identify the digraphs and color them.

Coloring Beginning Sounds

In these first grade phonics pdfs, kids have to identify the picture, say its name aloud, and color its beginning sound.

Naming Pictures with the Consonant Blend CR

Advocate a structural approach to learning with our grade 1 phonics worksheets. Name pictures by picking the correct cr-blend words from the word box.

Naming Pictures with the Consonant Blend CR