Open and Closed Syllables Worksheets for Years 1–5

Open and closed syllables get sorted, circled, underlined and matched across these phonics worksheets, built on two-syllable words such as tiger, robot, picnic and basket.
Year levels
Years 1–5
Pages
8
File type
PDF
Preparation
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Updated Sep 18, 2026

Subject
Grammar, Language Development, English
Topic
Open and Closed Syllables Worksheets, Phonics Activities
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Worksheets
Preparation
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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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