Free 1st Grade Phonics Activities

11 worksheets with different activities to recognise and find nonsense words. Nonsense words are an important part in assessing phonics and decoding because a student can only decode and read the word if they understanding the phonic sounds within the word.

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Use this fun activity to make digraph learning fun!

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This resource was created in order to help Speech Language Pathologists target initial phonemes at the word level.

The h-insertion trick can be an extremely helpful strategy to use when children are stuck at the isolation level of a sound. By producing /h/ after the initial sound, the child continues their air flow, making it easier to produce the following vowel. This helps them to eliminate the prior habit of producing the incorrect sound.

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If you haven't tried /h/-insertion, download this FREEBIE and see it work it's magic!

H-Insertion can help target the following:

• Phonological Processes: prevocalic voicing, gliding, backing, fronting, stopping, deaffrication, labialization, denasalization, excessive nasal emissions, initial consonant deletion
• Motor planning and sound transitions for children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech
• Sound production for children with Dysarthria or weak articulatory musculature
• Myofunctional disorders including frontal lisp, lateral lisp, limited lip rounding
• Articulation disorders to target initial /b/, initial /k/, initial /d/, initial /f/, initial /g/, initial "j", initial /l/, initial /m/, initial /n/, initial /p/, initial /r/, initial /s/, initial /t/, initial /v/, initial /w/, initial "y", initial /z/

Spring short vowel mini set - Included is one of each of the activities featuring short a.

Students will write and wipe or use manipulative letters. Students will build letters using flower petals, tap out sounds with Mr. Frog, and slowly talk with Mr. Turtle. Turtle and Frog are ready to be printed and attached to popsicle sticks for hopping / walking along each word. Use them again and again in your small groups or centers.

Turtle Talk

Materials - Picture cards, turtle

Directions - 

We will be talking very slowly like a turtle!  We call this turtle talk.  Look at the picture.  What is it?  Say the word slowly.  Tap out every sound you hear.  Write the letters on the card.  Use your turtle to walk and turtle talk the word you made!   

Flower Building

Use the letters on each flower to build words. Each set has 3 pages to provide appropriate support for your students. You will have one blank page, one with the medial sound written, and one with word families.

Hop along with MR. Frog then find a matching picture

I hope you like my sample set featuring short vowel a. I have an extended packet available for purchase that includes all short vowel sounds, and manipulative letters for a total of 88 words in each set.

Spring Short Vowel CVC - Word Blending, Segmenting & Building

Elevate your students literacy journey with our innovative Phonics ! Tackling the challenge of mastering CVC short vowels, our Read and Match Worksheets, Phonics Directed Drawing, and Writing activities seamlessly blend fun and education. Watch as your student confidently draws, colors, and traces CVC words, unlocking the key to fluent reading. Say goodbye to phonics struggles and hello to a brighter, more engaged learning experience!

This packet includes 40 CVC and 16 CVCe word pictures.

CVC Words Included: bag, jam, hat, fan ,cat ,map ,rat, bat, web , ten , jet, bed, pen, hen, peg, net, tin, zip, kid, six, fin, lip, pin, pig, cog, row, sow, tow, fox, mop, box, top, hug, hut, bug, bus, rug, cut, sun, mug.

CVCe Words Included: bike, cake, gate, kite, mice, rake, lake, bake, bone , cone, cube, nose , mule, rose, huge, tune.

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These worksheet is for students to use to prepare for tests like DIBELS and other Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) assessments. It provides targeted practice to help students improve their phonemic awareness skills through simple and effective exercises.

What's included:

• 1 worksheets with 30 words each for phoneme segmentation practice
• A variety of words to enhance phonemic segmentation skills
• Ideal for practice in small groups, one-on-one, or independent sessions

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Students will read and sort words based on common vowel pair sounds ea, ai, and oa. Visuals are added as prompts to help the students remember the sounds.

These are basic 2 and 3 phoneme Elkonin boxes. I say a word and the students practice saying the sounds in the word while the circles drop down into the box. You could also say the sounds and have the students guess the word. Sometimes we think of what letter makes the sound and write it in the box. Circles drop on click into the box. Click on the links below for more Elkonin activities! Elkonin Boxes with Pictures - 2-Phoneme Words (Phonemic Awareness) Elkonin Boxes: Farm Animal Theme (Phonemic Awareness)

Short Vowel Word Ladders is a way students can practice substitutions and deletions within a single word family.

Included in each resource:

Teacher word meaning page

⭐2 different whole sheet ladders in black and white and color

⭐2 half sheet ladders (2 to a sheet for easy printing) in black and white and color

⭐6 half sheet ladders for small group, center, or independent practice in black and white and color

Other Resources:

Free Printable First Grade Dolch Sight Words List

Help your 1st graders improve their reading skills with this free Dolch Sight Words List, featuring 41 high-frequency words! These words are vital for building reading fluency and comprehension, making this list a great tool for daily practice.

Perfect for use in classrooms, homework assignments, or at-home learning, this resource provides a simple, printable format that makes learning sight words easy and effective.

What’s Included:

• 41 Dolch Sight Words for 1st grade
• Clear, easy-to-read format
• Free download for educators and parents

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This file is a free sampler of some of my letter sound fluency activities. This will be a growing file, as I will add more free files as I create more letter sound fluency activities.

Right now this file contains:

**Letter Sound Fluency Strips**

This low prep activity gives students a quick and engaging way to practice and improve their letter sound fluency. Students point to colorful pictures one at a time as they say the letter sounds on them. They can use the same strips repeatedly and work to increase their speed.

You can find more activities just like this in my Letter Sound Fluency BUNDLE.

**Letter Sound Fluency Tear Off Strips**

These low prep tear off strips bring a fun, active element to practicing letter sound fluency. My small group intervention students beg for this activity!

Display the colorful sheets of tear off strips around the room. Students tear off one strip at a time and practice the row of 10 letter sounds 3 times to increase fluency. Then they can read their strip for the teacher or a classmate before choosing another sheet to tear from.

You can find more activities just like this here.

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This packet contains clip cards for the AT word family. These clip cards are a great fine motor literacy center or as a Kindergarten phonics center. There are 3 different card types for each picture with several different representation of the words.

Types of Clip Cards

• The first set of cards have the picture with the beginning sound or blend for the at word and students must clip the correct word family ending to complete the word. For example, the card will have a picture of a hat with h _ _ under the picture. The choices the student will choose from will be like at, ag or am.
• The second set of cards have the picture with no word and the student must pick the correct word from a choice of 3 different words with the same beginning sound but with different ending word families. For example, students will see a picture of a hat and must choose the correct answer from these choices: hat, ham or han.
• The third set of cards have the picture with no word and the student must pick the correct word from a choice of 3 different words with the same beginning and ending sound. Only the vowel is different. For example, students will see a picture of a hat and much choose the correct answer from these choices: hat, hit, or hot.

This product is part of the following bundle:

AT Word Family Activities and Games Bundle

More Word Family Activities

Word Family Sentence and Picture Match

Word Family Flashcards in Google Slides

Word Family Activities Real Photograph Bundle

"Letter is for..." Recording Sheet:

These sheets are intended for Pre-k to 1st grade. These can be used as:

• An assessment piece
• Homework/supplemental work
• To reinforce letter and sound recognition

Display sheets on a bulletin board to celebrate the letter of the week or create a letter of the week journal

Just print and play! 6 unique cards are included in both color and black & white options. Includes a teacher call list with all the words on the cards.

Fun activity for a small group to have some festive fun while still learning!!!

Science of Reading aligned heart word bingo. Most words also align to trick words from the grade 3 Fundations program.

**Looking to play with your whole class?! Check out my Valentine's Bingo set with the same words, but 24 unique cards for some whole class fun!

**Note these are the same words used in my Winter Bingo Product!

Words Included:

• again
• another
• answer
• are
• beautiful
• because
• bought
• breakfast
• brother
• come
• could
• does
• done
• every
• eye
• false
• family
• father
• floor
• friend
• from
• give
• great
• have
• here
• hour
• listen
• lose
• love
• many
• minute
• mother
• move
• none
• our
• put
• said
• says
• should
• their
• they
• today
• very
• want
• was
• water
• were
• word
• young
• your

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These reading and writing activity cards are perfect for beginning readers! Children get to blend words, color the matching picture and practice writing the words. These cards can be used in centers or for one to one support. This freebie includes 14 cvc words. For more cards check out my full bundle in my store!

VC words are simple, two-letter words made up of a vowel followed by a consonant, such as "at," "in," or "up." These words are beneficial for early readers because they introduce basic phonics skills, helping students recognize and blend vowel and consonant sounds. Mastering VC words builds a strong foundation for decoding more complex words, improves reading fluency, and boosts confidence in early literacy development.

Benefits

• Mastering sound blending

• Developing fluency in reading phonetically regular words

• Supports early literacy skill development

• Lays the groundwork for advanced reading comprehension

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Have you ever wished students in the prereading and early reading stage could have opportunities to be fluent and build automaticity? How can students who barely know letter names and sounds become fluent? Ready Reads are just what you are looking for.

Ready Reads are warm up activities for the eyes and the brain and can support any curriculum. Ready Read charts cumulatively follow the scope and sequence of UFLI and support the Science of Reading. Use these in small group, whole group on the projector, in partners for accountability, or for students to whisper read to themselves. They can easily be adapted in an I read, We read, You read or Your turn, My turn format. Ready Reads can be used for students to say the letter name and/or the letter sound practicing grapheme recognition as well as phoneme recall. For pre-readers and early readers alike, this activity builds the left to right progression of reading and builds fluency for letters and concepts already learned. This is the building block for automaticity and fluent reading.

This freebie gets you started up to lesson 3. Get the full resource for Kinder, 1st, and 2nd to build your students' automaticity here! Kinder here 1st-2nd *Coming Soon*

This sight word worksheet includes the pre-primer Dolch word "and". This high frequency sight word page is perfect for writing centers, tutorials, small groups, homeschooling, homework, sub plans and more! Pre-k, Kindergarten, and first grade students will practice their sight word in various ways! Reading, tracing, rainbow writing, writing on handwriting lines, finding and circling the word, filling in missing letters, reading fluency sentences, and completing the secret sentence challenge!

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What's Included

• 1 Pre-Primer dolch sight word worksheet for "and"

In the worksheet students will...

• Read the word
• Trace the word
• Rainbow write the word
• Practice writing the word on handwriting lines
• Find and circle the word in a list of other pre-primer sight words
• Fill in missing letters for the word in multiple ways
• Read fluency sentences that include the word
• Complete the secret sentence challenge by writing the first letter sound they hear for each symbol and reading the completed sentence at the end

More Sight Word Activities...

Roll & Read Sight Words

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Third Grade

Roll & Read Sight Word Fluency Sentences

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Third Grade

Find the Snowman Game

Practice recognizing letters and numbers with this fun game. Place number or letter cards in a pocket chart and hide a snowman behind one of the cards. Students will take turns guessing a letter/number to find the hidden snowman. They can record letters/numbers guessed with a record sheet. Once the snowman is found, play again!

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This cactus themed Color by CVC Word freebie is a preview of our full size Color by CVC Word units. This freebie comes with a "short a" puzzle featuring the words cat, mad, jam, and pan. Students can use the picture clue puzzle or the word clue puzzle. In the picture clue puzzle, students look at the picture of the word and then find the corresponding word to color. In the word clue puzzle, students have the CVC word to look at and find the matching word to color. No prep! Just print and go.

**This freebie comes with short a only, but the full units come with all five vowel families, each in two difficulty levels for 10 puzzles total.**

You can find all of the themed Color by CVC Word units here

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Check out my other CVC activites:

*all of my CVC activities use the same words and images for cohesive learning*

CVC Blending Cards - 85 Words with and without pictures

CVC Word Family Rearrange Puzzles -

85 Words

Seasons Color by CVC Word Bundle

CVC Word Memory Game

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