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Sample Phonics Worksheets

Phonics Worksheets and Teaching Resources

Lanternfish ESL has hundreds of phonics worksheets and teaching activities organized by phoneme-grapheme correspondences. Worksheet downloads come in a variety of formats including PDF, MS Word, and JPG.

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The Lanternfish phonics resource section has greatly expanded. Click on the category or resource type below to find printable phonics worksheets and teaching activities. Lanternfish phonics generally follows a synthetic phonics progression with an emphasis on phoneme-grapheme correspondences (as opposed to onset-rime phonics). One order that these unit can be taught is as follows: initial consonants --> final cononsants --> CVC words --> Consonant Digraphs (the words in this unit follow a CVC pattern) --> Long Vowel Bossy E --> Vowel Digraphs --> Consonant Blends. However, other orders are certainly possible. There are other resources listed here as well that emphasize sight words, decoding skills, and early reading skills.

Initial Consonant Sounds Worksheets

Sample Initial Consonant Sound Worksheets

A collection of worksheets to review initial sounds. Students listen to two words and identify the initial sounds.

Final Consonant Sounds Worksheets

Sample Final Consonant Sound Worksheets

A collection of worksheets to review final sounds. Students listen to two words and identify the final sounds.

CVC Words Worksheets and Teaching Resources

Sample CVC Worksheets

Flashcards, games, spelling sheets and other activities for teaching CVC words like bat, cup, dog, win, and red.

Consonant Digraphs Teaching Resources

Sample Consonant Digraph Worksheets

Flashcards, games, spelling sheets and other activities for teaching words with consonant digraphs such as ship, chop, thin, duck, bell, and king.

Long Vowel Bossy E Teaching Resources

Sample Long Vowel Worksheets

Flashcards, games, spelling sheets and other activities for teaching the long vowel/bossy E patterns found in words like bike, gate, and rose.

Vowel Digraph Worksheets (AI, EE, EA, OA, OO)

Sample Vowel Digraph worksheets AI, EE, EA, OA, and OO

Flashcards, games, spelling sheets and other activities for teaching words that have vowel digraphs such as boat, train, sea, bee, and boot.

Vowel Digraph Worksheets (OO, OU, EW, AW, OW)

Sample Vowel Digraphs OO, OU, EW, AW, OW

Flashcards, games, worksheets and other activities for teaching words that have vowel digraphs such as claw, news, cow, crow, cloud, and cook.

R-Controlled Vowels Teaching Resources

Sample R-controlled vowel Worksheets

Flashcards, games, spelling sheets and other activities for teaching words that r-controlled vowels like star, bird, fort, burn, and fern.

Initial Consonant Blends
with R and L

Sample Consonant Blends Worksheets

Games and activities for teaching words that have initial consonant blends with R and L such as crab, claw, brick, and block.

Word Skills Game

Sample Word Skills Board Game

This fun board game reviews synonyms, antonyms, beginning sounds, ending sounds, middle sounds, and rhymes.

Phonics Bingo

Sample Phonics Bingo Games

A collection of different bingo games divided into categories such as CVC words and consonant digraphs.

Phonics Rhymes

Sample Rhyming Phonics Worksheets

A set of rhyming worksheets organized around the phonics categories suh as CVC words and consonant digraphs.

Phonic Units Spelling Tests

Sample Spelling Test Generator

Spelling test worksheet generators that can be used to assess or review spelling of phonetic patterns in the core units.

Phonics Word Searches

Sample Phonics Word Searches

A collection of phonics word searches organized by categories of words such as CVC words and consonant digraphs.

Phonics Board Games

Sample Phonics Board Games

A collection of big board games for teaching decoding and spelling skills. There are board games for each phonics unit.

Phonic Monsters
Card Games

Sample Phonics Monster Card Game

Materials that can be used for flashcards as well as fun games. Students make words out of heads , bodies, and tails.

Elkonin Boxes
Teaching Resources

Sample Elkonin Boxes Resources

A collection of Elkonin boxes as well as blank templates for teachers to make their own Elkonin Box worksheets.

Space Aces
Vowel Digraph Game

Sample CVC Worksheets

An exciting game that reinforces decoding skills for many vowel digraph combinations.

Dragon Words

Sample Dragon Words Flashcards Worksheets

Collections of words demonstrating particular letter patterns. Can be used as flashcards.

Vowel Combination Worksheets

Sample Vowel Combination Worksheets

A collection of worksheets to practice and writing words with vowel combinations such as OO, OA, EE, AI and AY.

Reading Packet Puzzles

Sample Reading Packet Puzzles

A collection of sentence puzzles for early literacy-- a highly recommended resource. They add a nice sight word component to phonics instruction.

ABC Alphabet Worksheets

Sample Alphabet Worksheets

A huge collection of worksheets to teach letter recognition for both capital and small letters.

Short Reading Selections

Sample Alphabet Worksheets

This section contains short reading selections aimed at young learners.

Select Phonics Patterns

Sample Onset Rime Worksheets

Some older phonics worksheets that practice oneset-rime recognition.