Open and Closed Syllables Worksheets for Years 1–5

- Year levels
- Years 1–5
- Pages
- 8
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Grammar, Language Development, English
- Topic
- Open and Closed Syllables Worksheets, Phonics Activities
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9E3LY09 — understand how to apply knowledge of phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships…
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About this resource
Introduction
This worksheet pack helps students understand and practise open and closed syllables through a variety of engaging phonics activities. Learners strengthen reading, decoding, and word recognition skills while identifying syllable patterns in common words.
What’s Included:
A variety of open and closed syllable activities
Word sorting exercises
Circle, underline, and matching activities
Open vs. closed syllable identification practice
True or false syllable exercises
Fill-in-the-blank phonics activities
Word comparison and recognition tasks
Fun and simple phonics practice for young learners
Year Levels / Ages:
Ideal for Years 1–5
Implementation Format:
Perfect for classwork, homework, literacy centres, or independent practice
Great for phonics lessons, reading intervention, and vocabulary review
Supports both guided and independent learning
Answer Key:
Not included
File Type:
PDF (Non-editable)
Number of Pages:
8 pages total
License:
Paid product for personal or single-classroom use only
Tags to Use:
open and closed syllables worksheets, phonics activities, syllable practice, reading intervention worksheets, primary phonics, decoding words activities, literacy centres, printable phonics worksheets
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify whether a syllable is open or closed
Sort two-syllable words by the type of their first syllable
Complete a word with missing letters and name its syllable type
Skills covered
Syllable identification — labelling each word as open or closed
Comparing words — choosing which of two words begins with an open syllable
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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9E3LY09 — understand how to apply knowledge of phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns
Core concepts
Open syllable
Closed syllable
Decoding
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