Free Kindergarten 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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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.

Find the Full H-Insertion Resource Here!

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/

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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

Young children learn the best through play and fun! This learning bundle sample is filled with 4 learning games to engage them in age appropriate skills to learn more about the world around them and help get them ready for school.

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Alphabet Animal Memory- Have fun playing and learning your letters in this engaging games your learners will love!

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Roll and Color- Learn your colors and work on fine motor too with this simple and fun game!

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Go Fish Numbers- A fun spin on a classic game and a great way to play while learning your numbers!

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I Spy In My Backyard- Let's explore outside our home and learn our shapes too with this interactive learning tool!

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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.

Set your beginning readers up for success with these continuous consonant CVC word cards. Words beginning with continuous consonants that can be stretched are easier for kindergarten and first grade students to blend.

These cards can be printed 2-sided, laminated, and cut to create quick practice activities for your students. Have students time each other in centers, set up fluency grids, or use as a quick progress monitoring tool.

You will get 72 cards total.

9 pages with 8 words per page (4 words are repeated to complete the last page).

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Short Vowel Preview has six activities to help students practice words with the short a sound in a CVC pattern.

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Free Printable Kindergarten Dolch Sight Words List

Give your kindergartners a head start on reading with this free Dolch Sight Words List featuring 52 essential words! These sight words are key to developing reading fluency, and this list is perfect for helping young learners recognize and read common words they’ll encounter often.

Designed with a clean, easy-to-read layout, this printable is perfect for classroom use, homeschooling, or extra practice at home.

What’s Included:

• 52 Dolch Sight Words for kindergarten
• Clear and simple design for ease of use
• Free download for teachers 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 ACK 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.

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!

eschool to Kindergarten will improve fine motor skills with this simple cut-and-paste Jack-O-Lantern Craft. NO PREP! Just choose one of the 3 printing options, print for the number of students, and “carve” your paper pumpkin.

What you will need:

• Printer and paper
• scissors and glue/paste
• crayons, markers, paint, etc

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Directions

• Paint a pumpkin or use the one included
• Cut out the face pieces you want
• Paste onto your pumpkin

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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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Print, fold and let your students color and trace these Alphabet Booklets. Use for letter recognition, letter tracing, and coloring in the lines.

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

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