Word Recognition Phonics Worksheets for Ages 6-8
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Enhance your child's early reading skills with our Word Recognition Phonics Worksheets, designed specifically for ages 6-8. These engaging, printable activities focus on building phonemic awareness and word recognition, which are vital for confident reading. Through a variety of exercises, children will practice identifying sounds, blending letters, and recognizing sight words. Our worksheets progressively challenge young learners, ensuring they grasp essential phonics concepts. Perfect for both classroom and home use, these resources make reading practice fun and effective. Start your child's reading journey today with our expertly crafted word recognition worksheets and watch their reading skills soar!
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The Long I Maze Reading Worksheet
Help your child learn phonics to help them read. Show them the difference between long and short "i" sounds. Guide them as they use a pencil to trace words with the long "i:" sound in the "Help the Boy in the Picture" worksheet exercise. This will help them find the kite in the picture.
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Rhyming Kites Worksheet
On a spring day, fly a kite! Kids Academy has a rhyming worksheet to boost your child's skills. Read the pairs of words aloud. Circle the kites if they rhyme, leave them blank if they don't. Listen carefully and find all the rhyming word pairs to complete this sheet!
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Word Match Reading Worksheet
This printout helps children learn to read fluently by connecting words with the same sound. Colorful pictures aid understanding and context for kindergarten-level students. Tracing lines, they learn to identify the sounds made by letters of the alphabet and deepen their knowledge of phonics.
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AW Words Team Coloring Fun Worksheet
Coloring words they can read is a blast for little learners! This worksheet offers emerging readers the chance to practice and gain confidence in reading words from the -aw family, while also improving fine-motor and creativity skills. Without knowing it, they'll learn about phonetic teams along the way!
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Phonics and Word Recognition: Assessment 3 Worksheet
Silent letters can be tricky for kids learning to read and write. Show them how they work with words like 'knee' and 'dumb'. Then, challenge them to come up with their own. Give them a worksheet with silent letters and trace the lines to join the letters into words.
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Which's the OA Word? Worksheet
Encourage your kids to complete this fun worksheet. Ask them to identify the animals and objects in the pictures. Read the incomplete sentences aloud, and then find the correct word to finish the sentence. Check their work.
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What do you hear Worksheet
Kids can practice distinguishing between r-controlled vowel teams /ar/ and /or/ with this worksheet. The pictures help identify the words and the sounds heard. Tracing a line to the correct sound supports fine motor skills development.
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Reading: OW and OU Words Worksheet
Help your kids learn phonetics! Explain the different sounds and long/short variations. Emphasize that some vowel sounds are the same, e.g. ou = ow in cow. For practice, have them read aloud the words in the worksheet and check the box next to the spelling that matches the picture.
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Words with ea Worksheet
Beginning readers may struggle with -ea vowel digraphs, which can have multiple sounds and be tricky to decode. This cheerful worksheet helps kids practice reading sentences with missing -ea words, using context clues to fill in the blanks. They'll also be exposed to various -ea sound examples, and build their sight word knowledge.
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Reading: Break Them Apart Worksheet
See if students understand syllables with this fun worksheet. It teaches them that a syllable is a word part with a vowel sound. Kids read each word and choose how many parts it has. Doing this often helps them decode new words and gain confidence.
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Is It Silent? Worksheet
Phonetics can be tricky, like the sound of /e/ in 'egg' vs. the silent /e/ at the end of 'slime'. Ask your students to give more examples. Read out the words in this worksheet with your kids and ask them to identify the silent /e/ ones.
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Long Vowel Sound E Worksheet
Practice distinguishing long and short vowel sound E with this free printable! Kids must complete the word “bee” by tracing the maze and adding the missing letter E. Remind them to say the word aloud to help sharpen their phonics ear. Get more phonics fun with the vowel sound E here.
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L Blends: "Pl", "Cl" and "Sl" Printable
This printable worksheet will help your child recognize and identify the Pl, Cl, and Sl consonant blends, sound them out, and identify them in print. Improve your child's reading and writing skills with fun and colorful phonics practice!
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Rhyming Bells Worksheet
This printable worksheet helps students recognize rhyming words. Read a word, then pick the 4 words that rhyme. Look out for words with different spellings but same ending sound. It's a great exercise to improve understanding of rhyming words.
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The /wh/ Sound Worksheet
Digraphs join two consonants to make a new sound, like /wh/. Give examples, like "whale", "when" and "why". Ask kids to name pictures in a worksheet and trace dotted lines to images beginning with the /wh/ sound; "what" is one example.
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Identify the Written Words Worksheet
Have your students identify the objects on the printout, then spell the words. If they already know how to spell, this exercise should be easy. Help them circle the correct letters from the set to spell out the words. This is a great way to reinforce reading and spelling skills. Max 80 words.
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Medals: Al Spelling Worksheet
Have your students list common words ending with -al. See how many they can give and spell. Give examples of your own, assisting with spelling. Now review the words in the worksheet. Guide students to trace the line for each word ending with -al. 80 words
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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'.
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Reading: AW and AU Words Worksheet
This worksheet helps kids recognize that /au/ and /aw/ can make the same sound. Students read sentences and pick the correct word with one of the digraphs. Understanding digraphs improves decoding and reading fluency. Perfect for reading and phonics classes.
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Reading: Find the Prefixes Worksheet
Students are asked to circle all prefixes on this worksheet and brainstorm a list of words that have them. It's a great tool for teaching vocabulary and helps students understand new and unfamiliar words by recognizing how prefixes change meaning.
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Missing Digraph: Part 2 Worksheet
Practice the "th" digraph with this fun worksheet from Kids Academy! See how it appears at the beginning, middle, or end of words and help learners fill in the blanks. Check if they got it right by finding the th digraph at the bottom!
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Words with sound f Reading Worksheet
This illustrated phonics worksheet is ideal for preschool or kindergarten. It helps boost learners' literacy skills with a focus on the letter "f". Ask your child to name all the pictures, listening for that sound. Examples are fish, fox, lion, bug. When they can identify which words start with "f", have them circle the images. Congratulate them on a job well done!
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More than 1 word Worksheet
Test your child's reading skills with this fun worksheet! Point out the word in each picture, then switch the middle letter of each word with one from the list and check the box when you find a new word. It's a great way to develop your child's reading skills!
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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.
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Parents and teachers should prioritize word recognition and phonics for 6- to 8-year-olds because these skills are foundational for reading proficiency and overall academic success. During these formative years, children are at the optimal developmental stage to systematically decode words and understand their meanings. Phonics instruction teaches children the relationships between letters and sounds, enabling them to "sound out" words, which is an essential step in becoming fluent readers. Word recognition becomes faster and more accurate with consistent practice, helping children read more effortlessly and comprehend texts better.
Early proficiency in phonics and word recognition has a profound impact on a child's confidence and motivation to read. It opens the door to acquiring knowledge across various subjects, as nearly all learning involves reading. Struggling with reading can lead to frustration and disengagement, potentially affecting many areas of learning and self-esteem.
By supporting strong phonics and word recognition skills, parents and teachers help children develop a love for reading and learning, laying a critical foundation for lifelong literacy. Engaging and effective phonics instruction, paired with encouraging reading environments, equips children not only for academic success but also for rich, informed lives.
