Phonics Printable Workbook

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What's inside this resource

Children will develop important early childhood skills with fun activities that teach initial consonant sounds. Kids will practice recognizing short vowel sounds with common spellings, reading simple three letter words, and identifying long vowel sounds with the silent “e.” The full-color pages provide plenty of practice to help build learning confidence and increase school success.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Identify the beginning consonant sound of a pictured object and match it to its letter.
Recognize and produce the correct short vowel sound in simple three-letter 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.
Note the publisher's reproduction terms permit copying for a single home or classroom, not for an entire school or district.

Skills covered

Beginning-sound phonics — students identify and circle the initial consonant letter for pictured words.
Short vowel discrimination — students color, circle, or fill in the correct short vowel (a, e, i, o, u) for pictured three-letter words.
Sight word matching — students draw lines connecting pictures to their correctly spelled words, such as mop, dish, and sock.

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How does the workbook build from one section to the next?

It opens with beginning-sound circling pages, then works through each short vowel in turn pairing a colour-the-picture page with a missing-letter fill-in page, before finishing with mixed short-vowel review, circle-the-correct-word items, and picture-to-word matching games.

What are students asked to do on the missing-vowel pages?

Each page shows a picture and has students write the missing vowel to complete the word, saying the word aloud as they go.

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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
sight words

Topics

phonics sounds short vowel spelling workbook

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