Reading comprehension Consonants Worksheets for Ages 6-8
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Enhance your child's reading skills with our engaging Reading Comprehension Consonants Worksheets for Ages 6-8. These carefully crafted activities help young learners recognize, sound out, and understand consonant blends, boosting their literacy and phonetics knowledge. Perfect for first and second graders, these worksheets incorporate fun exercises and colorful visuals to make learning enjoyable. Kids will improve their ability to decode words, deepen vocabulary, and grasp reading material more effectively. Ideal for home or classroom use, our worksheets provide the essential practice needed to build a solid reading foundation. Download today and watch their comprehension soar!
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Let's Look for Blends Worksheet
Does your child love trains? Get them to read the story or help them read it aloud. Ask them to trace the words that start with blends on the dotted lines. This exercise will help them improve their blend-identifying skills!
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Vowel and Consonant Sounds: Assessment Worksheet
Test young elementary students on vowel and consonant sounds with this friendly phonics assessment worksheet. Get kids to name each image and look at the word underneath. Ask them to sound out the word, then circle the missing letter to complete. This will help assess their knowledge and skills!
Vowel and Consonant Sounds: Assessment Worksheet
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Shhh... What Digraph? Worksheet
Phonetics sounds can be combined to create a new sound - like a digraph. A great example is the /sh/ sound. Words like 'brush' and 'fish' can be heard. Ask your child to provide more examples. Look at the pictures in the PDF and see if they can identify the objects. Additionally, help them find the digraph missing from each word.
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Cha, Cha, Cha: Find the /Ch/ Sound Worksheet
Have your students identify the objects in the images and if they struggle, help them check for the /ch/ digraph. This digraph forms a new sound when two or more consonants are combined, so it can be helpful to point it out to them in the colourful printout.
Cha, Cha, Cha: Find the /Ch/ Sound Worksheet
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Peter Piper Alliteration Worksheet
Kids love tongue twisters! This worksheet familiarizes them with alliteration through Peter Piper, a beloved nursery rhyme. They underline words that start with the same letter sound, learning to recognize alliteration.
Peter Piper Alliteration Worksheet
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The SH Digraph Worksheet
There are many phonetic sounds, each with its own unique sound. When two or more consonants are combined to create a new sound, it's called a digraph. Example: the sh digraph creates the /sh/ sound. Have kids look at the pictures and say the words aloud. Help them circle the images ending with /sh/, like 'wash'.
The SH Digraph Worksheet
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Consonant Blends: "Dr" and "Tr" Printable
Pictures of the words provide a visual cue, and sound-outs help with auditory cues.
Consonant Blends: "Dr" and "Tr" Printable
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Review the Blends Worksheet
Consonant blends are two or three consonants that make a sound when pronounced together. L-blends like cl, bl, sl, fl and 3-letter blends like str, slp are common. This phonics worksheet helps early readers identify words containing two letter L-blends. Students must circle the words then read them aloud.
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Reading comprehension is a foundational skill that plays a crucial role in a child's academic journey and overall cognitive development, especially for children aged 6-8. At this age, kids are typically in the early stages of acquiring reading skills, and mastering consonants is an integral part of this process. Consonants make up a significant portion of the words in the English language, and a solid understanding of them helps children decode words more effectively. This decoding ability is essential for reading fluency, which in turn affects comprehension.
When children grasp how different consonant sounds contribute to word formation, they can read more quickly and with better accuracy. This fluency enables them to spend less mental energy on figuring out words, allowing them to focus more on understanding the text's meaning. As a result, their overall reading comprehension improves, paving the way for academic success in other subjects, as reading is foundational to learning across the curriculum.
Moreover, good reading comprehension skills developed at a young age foster a love for reading, promote critical thinking, and enhance vocabulary. Parents and teachers who prioritize and support the development of these skills are setting their children up for lifelong learning and success. Therefore, understanding consonants is not just a linguistic skill but a step towards comprehensive cognitive development.
