Word Recognition Worksheets

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Gear up for reading readiness with our free, printable word recognition worksheets. Discover the vital role word recognition plays in fostering reading fluency as kids work their way through activities like associating pictures with words, looking for similar words, picking words from sentences, and many more.

These word recognition worksheets pdfs are ideal for kids in kindergarten and grade 1.

Circling Pictures after Recognizing Words

Give your kindergarten kids' reading skills a leg up with this task where they have to read words and circle pictures.

Circling Pictures after Recognizing Words

Checking Pictures after Recognizing Words

This reading readiness resource will give children an opportunity to associate pictures with words as they identify each word and check the correct picture.

Checking Pictures after Recognizing Words

Which Words Name the Pictures?

As you task grade 1 kids with circling words that name pictures in these printable word recognition worksheets, watch them decode texts and understand their meanings.

Which Words Name the Pictures

Coloring after Recognizing Words

Spice up your 1st grade kids' learning as they identify words and color them orange, red, yellow, green, and purple as directed in our word recognition worksheets pdf.

Coloring after Recognizing Words

Tracing and Circling Words

As kids look for the given words, trace, and circle them, their vocabulary expands naturally, having a transformative effect on their language and communication skills.

Tracing and Circling Words

Recognizing Words and Connecting Their Letters

Kindergarten kids hunt for the given words in the grid and complete this word recognition exercise by connecting the letters to form the word.

Recognizing Words and Connecting Their Letters

Recognizing and Circling Words

A close friendship will blossom between grade 1 kids and word recognition as soon as you introduce this task of identifying the words on the left among the options given.

Recognizing and Circling Words

Matching to Recognize Words

Smile radiantly when children match each word to its picture with one hand tied behind their backs, for this is ample proof that they've started mastering a key life skill.

Matching to Recognize Words

Recognizing and Shading Words

Direct kids to find the given words among the options given and to color, quickly and automatically translating the letters or spelling patterns of written words into speech sounds in the process.

Recognizing and Shading Words

How Many Words Are in Each Sentence?

Read each sentence, count the number of words in it, and write your answer in the space given in our printable word recognition worksheets for kindergarten and grade 1.

How Many Words Are in Each Sentence

Recognizing Given Words in Sentences

Continue to fill kids in on how to recognize words in yet another fun pdf resource, where the task is for them to give each sentence a read and scan it to find the given word.

Recognizing Given Words in Sentences

Recognizing Correctly Spaced Sentences

Instruct 1st grade kids to recognize the sentence, in each set, that enjoys more readability and clarity thanks to correct spacing; tell them to answer by checking the correct options.

Recognizing Correctly Spaced Sentences