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Phonics Printable Workbook

Build early phonics skills with picture-based practice. Children identify beginning sounds, choose short vowels, fill missing letters, and match words with pictures.
Grades
K–1
Pages
34
File type
PDF
Preparation
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Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject
ELA, Phonics
Topic
Beginning sounds, Short vowels
Resource types
Workbooks
Preparation
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Product description

From the author

Practice beginning letter sounds and short vowels with picture-based activities. Children circle initial letters, identify and write short vowels, choose matching words and connect pictures with words.

The thirty-four-page PDF contains thirty-two activity pages plus a cover and closing page. Provide pencils and coloring materials. The activities focus on beginning sounds and short vowels; a long-vowel silent-e section is not included.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify the beginning sound of a pictured object and match it to its letter.

  • Recognize and produce the correct short vowel sound in short words.

  • Match a picture to its correctly spelled word.

Teaching tips

  • Work through the beginning-sounds pages before the short-vowel section, since the workbook is sequenced from initial sounds to vowel sounds.

  • Have students say each word aloud while completing the missing-vowel pages, as the workbook's own instructions direct ("Look at each picture. Write the missing vowel in each blank. Say each word.").

  • Use the short vowel review pages as a quick formative check before moving a student on to the matching-game pages.

Skills covered

  • Beginning-sound phonics — students identify and circle the initial letter for pictured words.

  • Short vowel discrimination — students color, circle, or fill in the correct short vowel (a, e, i, o, u) for pictured short words.

  • Word-picture matching — students draw lines connecting pictures to their correctly spelled words, such as mop, dish, and sock.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • CCSS.RF.K.3.a — Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
  • CCSS.RF.K.3.b — Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

Core concepts

  • Phonics

  • Beginning sounds

  • Short vowels

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