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First Grade Reading Skills | Phonics

Connection to reading.

To become skilled readers, children must have strong base in phonics, or an understanding of the sounds of printed letters and words.  Children will use phonics when learning how to blend sounds together to read words. Since several areas of the brain must work together to “decode” or sound out words, children must practice this skill repeatedly. Your child will also use phonics to spell words when they write.

In 1st grade your child will start by being able to read CVC words (consonant-vowel-consonant words) like t-a-p, then move on to read words that start with bl, sl, and tr. They’ll learn that the letter “e” at the end of some words will be silent ( gone, time ). They’ll also master long vowel sounds such as ai, ee, oa. Your child will be sounding out and trying to read two-syllable words (like wagon ) as well as words that don’t follow regular spelling rules ( said, busy, tongue ).

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Show your child how to read short words, do i know the letter sounds teaching letter knowledge to your child, can your child correct themselves when reading, when your child is stuck: should i tell them the word, what is phonics why is it important for my child to read, why talking about the letters we see all around us prepares our child to read.

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Shift your mindset.

Often parents fall into the thinking that “The school will teach my child everything they need to know! I’ll leave it to them.” Although it may feel better to not carry this burden, the burden will be shifted onto your child. Teachers need you on their team, practicing reading skills at home,  building your child’s confidence, and giving them the much needed practice all kids require to be strong readers.

Keep It Simple

If your child is just starting to read or still seems unsure, review the alphabet and letter sounds. Next, look at short CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words (top, cat, fog and so on) and have your child break them apart into their individual sounds. Then blend these sounds back together (/t/ /o/ /p/; top).

A little practice can lead to great improvement

Talk or play games about letter sounds for fewer than 5 minutes a day. While driving, give your child some 2 letter words and 3 letter words to spell (like see, look, up, go ). Keep the activities fun and light so kids can enjoy a quick challenge and get a boost of confidence from practicing one skill a day.

We Love Reading

Remember, we want children to develop a love of reading, so focus on reading the books they enjoy over and over again. We don’t want to ever frustrate children with the “mechanics,” such as drilling letter sounds to the point of tears. The goal of reading is to understand the story; phonics will help kids sound out words quickly to comprehend what they read.

Be a Word Detective

What sound does each letter make in this word on the cereal box? Research suggests that seeing print, saying the sounds, and hearing the sounds while pointing at the letter with a parent or teacher has the greatest impact on learning “phonemic awareness” or sounds.

Look Around

Start by making sure your child knows every upper- and lowercase letter in the alphabet. Write down the letters they know and don’t know so you can keep track. Find the letters in natural settings, like on a poster at the movie theatre. Ask if your child can say the letter name and letter sound they see. “What is the name of this movie? What letter does it start with? The letter m, you’re right! I’m going to try to read the word: Mmmmmminions. Did you hear the mmmm sound?” Help them if they don’t know the answer. Children are naturally curious about the print they see all around them, so use it as a meaningful teachable moment.

Remind your child often that we’re learning letter sounds so that we can read everything around us. Tell them it’s similar to learning to ride a bike how in the beginning Mom might have had to remind them to push the pedals with their feet and balance on the seat, but eventually  they were able to ride by themselves. Phonics is the practice so you can read on your own!

Stick Writing

Use a stick to trace letters in dirt or sand. Tell your child easy three-letter words and see if they can sound them out, such as “pop”, “tag”, and “lug”.

Write a Word Ladder

Draw a simple ladder of two long lines and four rungs on a piece of paper. Using a red crayon write a short word like “sit” on the bottom rung.

Then ask your child to think of more words that rhyme with “sit” and write them on each rung, climbing up the ladder using a different color crayon for fun. See how high your ladder will reach!

The H Brothers

Explain to your child that sometimes two letters will stand together to create one new sound. The “h brothers” join with other letters to make the sounds:   sh, ch, th, wh and ph .

Th is can be confusing for kids, so make sure to write an example word and use gestures to help them remember the new letter combination.

ch : touch your chin making the “ch” sound

sh: make the “shushing” sound while holding your finger to your mouth

wh : bite into some white or wheat bread

ph : pretend to talk on your invisible phone

Pick a Letter

Practicing phonics can feel tedious, so it’s important to find ways to make it fun, simple and quick. Write three letters on a piece of scrap paper: for example b, n, and t. Have your child say each letter and its sound. Then ask, “What’s the LAST letter you hear in ‘run’?”. Make it a game by saying they get one point for each word they get right. See if they can earn five points.

Make a Smoothie “Blend”

1st graders will begin reading more complicated words that contain letter “blends”. A blend is when two letters come together to help words begin. Examples are:  tr, sw, st , sp, sn, sm, sl, sc, pl, gr, fl, dr, cr, cl, br, and bl. Demonstrate this concept by blending together two flavors in a smoothie, like strawberry and banana.

Scavenger Hunt

1st graders are expected to learn the letter blends:

tr, sw, st , sp, sn, sm, sl, sc, pl, gr, fl, dr, cr, cl, br, and bl.

Give your child a piece of paper with one blend written on it. Have them say the sound the blend makes. Give your child a bag and give them five minutes to find objects that start with the blend on the paper. Give clues or suggestions to identify objects. When time is up review the objects and give a point for each item found. Have your child teach a neighbor or friend for the next round.

Listen to Your Child Read Daily

In the beginning it will be hard work for your child to “decode” or sound out the words they see in books for 1st graders. Make it fun by letting them record their voice when reading by using the “Voice Memos” app available on iPhones and Samsung phones.

Reread books over and over

Your child might want to read the same story every night. Try to stay excited about reading by being enthusiastic. Remember to point to words as you read and enunciate the different sounds in words. “The pirate ssshhhhip is setting sail!” Remind your kids that when you read your voice should sound natural, like when you’re talking to a friend.

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19 Go-To First Grade Phonics Worksheets

Helping your child read is made much easier when you’ve got 1st grade phonics worksheets to guide you and your lessons. These worksheets are a great way for your 1st grader to practice their basic reading skills. The worksheets are fun and engaging and can be used in the classroom or at home!

Things like learning the alphabet are easy first steps to reading , but there’s more to it. Beyond letter names and sounds, your little one will need to master phonics. The phonics worksheets gathered below are an awesome tool to support your student in transitioning from alphabet basics into more complex phonics work.

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What phonics do 1st graders learn, the best 1st grade phonics worksheets.

• What Are Blend Words for 1st Grade? 

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In first grade, your kids will learn about many elements of phonics, including digraphs which are two letters that represent a single sound. Digraphs are important for early readers because they can decode these sounds within words. Digraphs include letters like “ch,” “th,” “sh,” and “ph.” 

First graders will also learn long and short vowel sounds. Blends like “bl-” (as in black) and “cl-” (as in clock) are covered in first grade. Don’t forget about hard and soft consonants too.

In partnership with Teach Simple , whose marketplace is full of educational materials created by actual teachers (plus 50% of all revenues go to them), I’ve gathered 19 go-to grade 1 phonics worksheets to support your students on their reading journeys!

• Circling Long Vowel Sounds A Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

A simple and straightforward worksheet, this long vowel A worksheet will reinforce the concept of long vowel sounds with ease. The colorful images make it engaging while supportive.

• Hard Soft C Pictures Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

Practice identifying hard and soft C sounds with this illustrated worksheet. This simple task is perfect for reinforcing the essential phonic skills your little one needs.

• UB Word Family Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

This worksheet focuses on the “-ub” word pattern. Your students will cut and then match together the word family with the other letter combinations on the page. The result forms complete words. 

• Spelling Long E Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

This fill-in-the-blank style worksheet is the ideal practice for students who are struggling with the long E sounds. This offers a nice shift from the simple identification worksheets!

• Add Silent E Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

Silent letters offer an additional layer of trickiness for little learners. This worksheet is ideal practice to help students start to identify the sneaky silent letters that pop up in English words! 

• Digraphs Word List By Have Fun Teaching

Digraphs sound a little more complicated than they truly are—but this simple worksheet will help students work on them with speed and accuracy.

• Long Vowel Coloring Sheet By Have Fun Teaching

Marrying together coloring and phonics practice, this worksheet helps students with their long vowel sounds. The multimodal approach creates an added layer for learning and engagement.

• NG/NK Digraph Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

A mix of digraphs and blends, this worksheet takes two of the trickier phonics concepts and puts them together. This is a great practice for those advanced readers or older first graders. 

• Short U Beginning And Ending Sounds Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

Your reader can get in practice with U and how it’s used at the start and end of words with this lovely and bright worksheet.

• EA Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

This worksheet is a fill-in-the-blank style practice sheet with a word bank. Your reader will have the chance to practice reading , use context clues, and, of course, develop their “ea” phonics skills!

• E Like Leaf Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

This reading comprehension passage focuses on the long E sound. Students will use their knowledge of long and short vowel sounds as they work through this passage. 

• Long Vowels Filling in the Blank Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

Another fill-in-the-blank style worksheet, these sentences will have your little reader understanding long vowel sounds in no time. This sheet allows them to use context and their knowledge of phonics together.

• Starts with CH Reading Comprehension Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

An incredibly common blend, the “CH” sound is one students often find tricky. This worksheet allows them to practice identifying words that start with “CH” in the context of a larger reading passage. 

• Double Vowels Fill In The Blank Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

On this worksheet, first graders will select the vowel pair and place it within the existing word. This type of practice is a bit more advanced so it’s good for kids who are farther along in their phonics work.

• Smith And Smitty SM Phonics Stories Reading Comprehension Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

Phonics stories are a great way to help students understand how words sounds within a story and how to use context clues to figure out words with phonics sounds they may not know well. This “sm” phonics story is a fun way to practice this sound.

• EW UI Vowel Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

This sorting activity focuses students on the “ew” and “ui” vowel pairs. They’ll practice identifying the appropriate words, placing them in the correct categories, and writing the words all in one fell swoop!

• Beginning Blends Transportation Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

This worksheet asks students to identify the blend that matches the vehicle shown. This sheet is great for partner work where they can say the word aloud and circle the appropriate letter pair. Plus, it’s a fun look at the many planes, trains, and automobiles that begin with blends!

• TH Picture Circle Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching

Identifying the “th” sound is no easy feat for our youngest readers, but this fun and simple worksheet is exactly the practice they’ll need. They will simply say the word, identify the “the” sound, and circle the correct images. 

• Carson Dellosa Phonics For First Grade Workbook From Carson Dellosa

This 64 page workbook covers tracing and writing letters, words, consonant and vowel sounds, word families, and more. Every student will find something to keep them engaged with different phonics activities, like puzzles, games, plus motivation stickers.

What Are Blend Words for 1st Grade?

Blends are two consonants that blend together to make a new sound (as opposed to digraphs which are two consonants that each only make one singular sound). For example, the “st” in the word “stop” or the “th” in “thank” are blends. 

Blend words offer an interesting challenge. Making connections between sounds and letters is tricky, especially when looking at phonic elements like blends. But fear not! With the 1st grade phonics worksheets above, your child will gradually begin to understand blends and the specific sounds they make in new vocabulary words.

About the Author Ali Pierce has been a proud public school teacher for nearly a decade. An English teacher by day, Ali works with educators throughout K-12 in a variety of coaching and support roles. A proud Wildcat, Ali earned both her BA in Creative Writing and M.Ed. in Teaching and Teacher Education from the University of Arizona. When not teaching, Ali can be found hanging out with her two young sons and sneaking in some reading for fun.

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1st Grade Phonics Worksheets

Our free, printable 1st grade phonics worksheets with answers help kids blossom into enthusiastic and skilled readers with impeccable pronunciation and reading skills. This collection reinforces foundational skills by exploring topics such as common consonant digraphs, breaking words into syllables, and irregularly spelled words.

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Beginning Sounds | Cut-and-Glue

A glimpse of each picture is all kids will need to connect it to the word it represents and hence hone in on the beginning sound in this cut-and-glue activity.

Circling Consonant Digraphs

In these grade 1 phonics pdfs, young learners have to look at the picture, say the name aloud, and circle the correct digraph that comes at the beginning of the image.

Consonant Blends | Cut and Glue

Polish your skills in phonics with this assemblage of 1st grade phonics pdfs where you cut out the blends from the bottom of the sheet and glue the correct blend in the given boxes.

Writing CVC Names

Assist your children in writing consonant-vowel-consonant pattern words with the help of these printable phonics worksheets for 1st grade kids.

Recognizing Diphthongs

Look at the words in these exercises, identify the vowel patterns, and shade them by using the color code provided in the instruction.

Writing Ending Sounds

Learn to write the ending sounds with these printable 1st grade phonics worksheets. Say the name of the pictures and then write the final sounds.

Recognizing and Coloring Long A Words

Cut down on your prep time with this printable set! Identify the words containing the long "a" sounds and color the chicks featuring those words.

Filling in EE or EA to Complete Long E Words

Stocked with eye-catching images, this compilation instructs kids to use "ee" or "ea" to complete the name of each long E word.

Matching Pictures and Tracing Long I Names

In this bundle of grade 1 phonics printable worksheets, kids have to match each picture to its long "i" name and trace the word.

Naming Pictures to Their Long O Names

Perfect the long "O" sound with this amazing activity set by matching each picture to its long "o" name, and tracing the word.

Identifying Words That Contain Long U

Task kids to read out the names of the pictures, identify the words with long u spellings, and color the pictures.

Sorting Long and Short A Vowels

Review the sounds of long A and short A vowels with this pdf set where you cut out the picture cards, sort them into long A and short A, and glue them in the appropriate boxes.

Identifying Middle Sounds

Explore these pdfs and direct grade 1 kids to color the middle sound that completes each word and also write the sound in the blank.

Isolating Phonemes | Four Phonemes

Each word in this bundle of phonics worksheets for grade 1 contains four phonemes. Isolate the phonemes in the given word and write them in the Elkonin box.

Completing Words with "ar" or "ir"

Practice r-controlled sounds by saying the names of the pictures and filling in "ar" or "ir" to complete the spellings of the given words.

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I am so excited for this new summer series here at Mama’s Learning Corner! For the next 9 weeks during the summer, I am publishing a weekly worksheet packet that will be just right for your children that finished 1st grade.

That’s 10 total weeks of 1st grade weekly worksheet packets!

Each weekly packet will cover 5 worksheet pages for 1 week: Monday through Friday.

Of course, we homeschool mothers know that children don’t often fit the box of a particular grade, however, these worksheet packets will focus on those skills practiced in a traditional 1st grade course of study.

Certainly use them with your eager and curious Kindergarten children or use them with 2nd graders that need some more intense and fundamental phonics review and practice with math facts.

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1st Grade Weekly Worksheet Packet #1

The focus of these 1st grade worksheets will be math and phonics. When my four oldest children were all elementary age, we never took a whole summer off. We usually took most of June off, and then hopped back into school right after July 4th.

That remains my favorite homeschool schedule! Alas, with older children in middle and high school, that has not been the best fit for us in this season of life.

Since I have a 7 year old that just completed 1st grade, I will need to do some some academic work with him through the summer. Because he is not a strong reader, he will need consistent phonics work throughout the summer.

This packet is perfect for kids that are scheduled to have a long summer break, but still need consistent phonics and math facts practice.

These worksheets are short and sweet! They will reinforce those 1st grade phonics concepts that we worked so hard on this year.

1st Grade Phonics and Math Worksheets

The weekly worksheet packets will all follow the same formula. They will each have 25 pages total with a daily math drill.

Each packet will consist of:

• 25 total pages – 5 worksheets for each day
• 5 days total for Monday through Friday
• 5 pages of math worksheets
• 5 pages of phonics practice worksheets
• 5 pages of focused handwriting practice for print writing – words include basic household nouns and countries around the world
• 5 pages of sight word practice taken from the First Grade Dolch sight word list
• 5 pages of color by code worksheets – varies between phonics and math practice
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1st Grade Worksheet Packet #1

The following skills are practiced in worksheet packet #1:

Day 1: Math: Telling Time Handwriting: Letter B Sight Word: going Phonics: Vowel Teams – ai and ay Color by Code: Addition and Subtraction to 12

Day 2: Math: Hundreds Board Handwriting: Letter C Sight Word: thank Phonics: Consonant Digraphs – CH, TH, SH Color by Code: Consonant Digraphs – CH, TH, SH, PH, WH words

Day 3: Math: Addition and Subtraction – Fill in the missing operator Handwriting: Letter H Sight Word: from Phonics: Word Equations – Blends Color by Code: True or False math equations

Day 4: Math: Adding and Subtraction – Sums to 20 Handwriting Letter: S Sight Word: over Phonics: Short Vowels and Blends Color by Code: -NG, -NK, -ND words

Day 5: Math: Counting Coins Handwriting: Letter U Sight Word: could Phonics: Rhyming Words Color by Code: Rhyming Words

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Day 1: Addition within 10 Day 2: Subtraction within 10 Day 3: Mixed Addition and Subtraction within 10 Day 4: Addition plus 2 Day 5: Subtraction minus 2

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6 takeaways from Biden's high-stakes interview

Domenico Montanaro

President Biden speaks with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Friday. Handout/Getty Images hide caption

Democrats have been in full panic mode about President Biden’s candidacy and ability to beat Donald Trump since Biden’s dismal debate performance last week.

In an effort to quell that concern, Biden sat for a network TV interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Friday night.

Did it work? That will become clearer in coming days, but here are six takeaways from the interview:

1. He was better than in the debate, but Biden’s age is clearly showing. 

Biden may have calmed some nerves among some political allies with the interview, but he didn’t show the facility and coherence that Democrats would have wanted to see. His thoughts were, at times, scattered and less than clear.

“I just had a bad night,” Biden said of the debate. “I don’t know why.”

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He said he had been traveling in the weeks prior, had a cold, even tested for COVID.

Will Democratic officials and, more importantly, persuadable voters buy that and believe he is up for four more years in office? Biden insists he is up to the job, but his age is clearly showing even more than it has in the past year or so — and at exactly the wrong time. Going into the debate, the bar of expectations was very low. All Biden had to do to clear it was show some energy and vigor. He didn’t do it. And now the bar has been raised. Every public appearance, speech and debate (if there even is another one) is going to be magnified.

2. Biden showed his stubbornness, for good or ill.

Biden again reiterated that he’s not getting out of the race, and even went so far as to claim that essentially no one else could do the job as well as he is doing it or be a better candidate against Trump.

Biden downplayed questions about his political standing, doubts about his ability to lead or to defeat Trump. “I’ve seen it from the press.” “I don’t think the vast majority are there.” “I don’t believe that’s my approval rating.”

Defiant Biden says 'only the Lord Almighty' could convince him to leave the 2024 race

He was deflecting and rationalizing away his vulnerabilities, but understanding why Biden hasn’t stepped aside is to understand his politics and the core of who he is as a person. He has faced myriad challenges personally and politically, and those obstacles have defined who he is. Biden is used to people telling him he can’t or he shouldn’t do something, and he believes the naysayers have long been wrong.  

Of course, those obstacles are all very different from the one he currently faces, because Father Time is undefeated.

Historian Douglas Brinkley once said of former President George W. Bush, “Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership—if you’re right about what you’re stubborn about.”

The same can be said about Biden or any president, for that matter.

3. Only the “Lord Almighty” could force Biden from the race — or maybe his closest allies in Democratic leadership.

“If the Lord Almighty came down and said, ‘Joe, get out of the race,’ I’d get out of the race,” Biden said. “The Lord Almighty’s not coming down.”

Yes, a second coming to tell Biden to drop out is unlikely to happen, but Biden did seem to leave the door slightly ajar to exiting if his top congressional allies called for it, namely House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Jim Clyburn and Senate leader Chuck Schumer.

To be clear, none has called for him to drop out, though Pelosi changed her tune and said it’s a legitimate question to ask whether Biden’s performance was an “episode” or a “condition.”

“If you are told reliably from your allies, from your friends and supporters in the Democratic Party in the House and Senate, that they’re concerned you’re going to lose the House and the Senate if you stay in, what will you do?” Stephanopoulos asked Biden.

“I’m not going to answer that question,” Biden said. “It’s not going to happen.”

So it appears Biden’s future in this race is not his alone.

4. There’s a question of whether Biden thinks Vice President Harris can win or do the job as well.

“I don't think anybody's more qualified to be president or win this race than me,” Biden contended.

He later asked, incredulously, who else would have the “reach” he has with allies and whether anyone else could handle foreign policy as well as he can — even though he’s clearly diminished from what he was even a few years ago.

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Not even, say, his vice president? Stephanopoulos didn’t follow up with that, but it was curious. Sure, anyone running for office should think no one could do the job better, but how close Biden has kept Harris lately — even hoisting her arm in the air at a Fourth of July event as if she had just won a boxing match — and given the questions about his age, it’s worth wondering whether it’s inherent in his answer that he doesn’t have the confidence in Harris to actually do the job or win?

5. This is a critical week for polls. 

We are now entering week two after the debate. It usually takes a couple of weeks for public opinion to solidify. Polls this week have shown Biden hurt by the debate — the degree to which is debatable.

So, this is an important period for whether Biden can weather this storm or not. There are Democrats firmly behind Biden certainly. But many, if not most, others are biting their nails and waiting to see what the polls say.

If he is where he was before the debate, it will help shore up support. If he slips further behind Trump, there will be more Democrats calling for him to step aside.

6. This whole episode shows the stark difference between the Democratic and Republican parties.

That Democrats have raised as many questions as they have about Biden’s viability shows a huge difference between the major parties.

One party, the GOP, doesn’t seem to care if two dozen women have accused their nominee of sexual assault, don’t care if he ran a fraudulent foundation and a sham “university,” don’t care if he paid off a porn star, don’t care if he lies repeatedly, and don’t care if he was impeached twice or was convicted on almost three dozen felony counts.

The Democratic Party, on the other hand, is concerned about… Biden’s age, not his character or priorities for the country.

It’s something that has irked people, like John Fetterman, the brusque Pennsylvania senator.

“Democrats need to get a spine or grow a set—one or the other,” he wrote on X . “Joe Biden is our guy.”

Correction July 6, 2024

A previous version of this story mistakenly identified Hakeem Jeffries as House speaker. He is the House minority leader.