Phonics Worksheets

Create your own phonics worksheets by selecting worksheet type and content. You can then make changes based on individual needs and view them on the worksheet preview below.

Phonics Assessments

If you are unsure where to start, use this assessment to see what phonics concepts your child already knows and what they need to work on. Print the student form and have students read the words one row at a time while you record their answers on the recording form. When a student misses 3 words in a row, or if they are struggling, discontinue the assessment.

Fun Ways To Use Phonics Worksheets

Use this phonics worksheet generator page to create customized phonics worksheets to reinforce the phonics skills that your children are working on. First select the content (consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) word families, vowel-consonant-e (VCE) or silent-e word families, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams, and diphthongs). It is best to select only content that you children have learned or are learning now. Do not include concepts that students have not yet learned. Begin with short vowel word families or consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. If your child is currently working on “short a words,” you can create a customized phonics worksheet with only short a words on it and even select which short a word families you want.

After selecting the content, you can select which worksheet type you would like: Missing Sounds, Word Sort, or Write the Word. The Missing Sounds Worksheet allows you to select if you want the initial/beginning, medial/middle, or final/ending sound missing. You can select if you would like the missing sounds phonics worksheet to contain only consonants at the beginning of words or also consonant blends (st, bl, etc.) and/or digraphs (th, sh, ch, etc.) If your child has not yet learned blends or digraphs, begin with just the consonant sounds.

We provide a Word Sort Worksheet for short vowel consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) word families, silent-e or vowel-consonant-e (VCE) word families, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams, and diphthongs. For the CVC word families and VCE word families you can even select specific word families for the word sort (for example at and ad).

To find out which phonics concepts your students need to work on, use the Phonics Assessment which uses nonsense words to assess student knowledge of phonics rules.

The Write the Word worksheet shows students pictures of words that follow the phonics rule you selected under content as well as lines and a word bank. This allows them to start writing words based on their knowledge of letter sounds. You can select if you would like the worksheet to have handwriting lines for younger students or single lines for more advanced writers or older students.

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Multisensory phonics supplies, activities and games:

Reading Rods Phonics Word Building Letter Cubes

Magnetic Letters Kit

Phonics Bean Bags

Play-Doh Shape and Learn Letters and Language

About our free phonics worksheets

Our free phonics worksheet generator builds printable phonics practice in minutes. Choose the sounds to focus on — short vowels (CVC words), long vowels with silent e, vowel teams, diphthongs and r-controlled vowels — narrow them to word families or to the consonant sounds your students know (single consonants, blends, digraphs), then pick a worksheet.

Every phonics worksheet can be printed for free or assigned to your students, and Practice digitally turns the same words into on-screen games: Build the Word, Picture Match, Roll and Read, Real or Nonsense, Missing Sound, Word Scramble and Word Sort. Teachers, special education teachers and homeschooling parents use it for no-prep practice from kindergarten through 2nd grade and for intervention.

Phonics worksheets you can make

Sound Boxes (Elkonin boxes) — a box for each sound, to push counters into and write the sounds
Decodable Sentences — read and circle the matching picture, read and draw, or read and write
Decodable Mini-Readers — a little storybook for each pattern, with single-consonant stories for beginning readers
Missing Sounds — fill in the beginning, middle or ending sound
Write the Word — look at the picture and write the word on handwriting lines
Word Sort — cut out pictures and sort them by vowel sound or word family
Phonics Clip Cards — a picture and three spellings to clip
Roll and Read — roll a die and read a word in that row
Real or Nonsense Words — read each word and circle or sort real and made-up words
Color by Vowel Sound or Word Family — color-by-code pictures with a word in every space
Phonics Bingo — a different board for every student, with calling cards
Phonics Game Board — roll, move and read the word cards
Word Ladders — change one letter at a time to climb from word to word
Word Family Mini-Book — a little book of one word family, to cut apart and staple
Read and Match — cut and paste each picture next to its word

Frequently asked questions

Are these phonics worksheets free?

Yes. You can create and print phonics worksheets for free, with no login required to print. A free account also lets you save worksheets and assign them to students.

Do you have short vowel (CVC) worksheets?

Yes. Choose Short vowels (CVC words) under Content and tick short a, e, i, o or u — or several — then pick any worksheet. To start with the simplest words, tick Single consonants under Consonants for words like cat, sun and pig, with no blends or digraphs.

What are sound boxes (Elkonin boxes)?

Sound boxes have one box for each sound in a word: ship has three (sh, i, p) and cake has three (c, a, ke). Students say the word, push a counter into a box for each sound, then write the letters. Choose Letters to trace for children still learning which letters spell each sound.

What are decodable sentences?

Sentences a child can sound out using only the phonics patterns they have been taught, plus a few sight words like the and said. Every sentence and story here is checked word by word for its pattern, and the short vowel and silent e patterns each have sentences and a story that use single consonants only.

What phonics skills can I create worksheets for?

Short vowels (CVC words), long vowels with silent e, vowel teams (ai, ee, oa ...), diphthongs (oi, oy, ow, ou ...), r-controlled vowels (ar, or, er, ir, ur) and word families, with single consonants, consonant blends and digraphs. For letter sounds, see our Letter Sounds worksheets.

What grade levels are these phonics worksheets for?

They work well for pre-K, kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade phonics instruction, and for older students who need extra decoding practice or intervention.