I learned to read at a very young age because my mother read to me daily. I loved books. I would read my favorites over and over until I had them memorized. And honestly, that served me well until about 2nd or 3rd grade.
At that point, we started learning phonics, and I was so confused. I would get so frustrated trying to figure out the digraphs, blends, and even some letter sounds, not because I didn’t understand them, but because I already knew them. But for whatever reason, they confused me.
If your kid needs phonics help, these free printable phonics books and worksheets are very helpful teaching aids to master tough phonetic concepts, even alongside a phonics program.
The Importance of Teaching Phonics
When we started homeschooling our children and teaching them to read, I knew it was important to teach phonics and word families. They needed to know how the letters and sounds worked not only separately, but also together to make sense of the words they were reading.
Now I will be the first to admit we are not strict with our homeschooling in the early years, but we are diligent to help them learn to read. We like using simple phonics worksheets and printable books for beginning readers to help them learn and progress with phonics to improve reading skills.
Free Phonics Worksheets and Printable Books
Teaching your budding or struggling reader phonics can be difficult. Use these free phonics worksheets and printable books and free phonetic readers to help them gain confidence in their reading skills. You can also use free printable books for beginning readers to help build reading skills.
Phonics Worksheets for Vowels
If you are looking for phonics books for early leaners or even decodable early reader books that are based on short vowels and long vowels, these fun phonics readers are a great starting place. The Measured Mom free phonics books below are some of our faves!
Vowel Team Phonics Worksheets – Color the Chunk – This Reading Mama has some of the best printable activities for phonics. If you have a beginning readers, you’ll find her printable phonics worksheets to be super helpful.
Vowel Sounds Worksheets If you are teaching short vowels or long vowels to your students, then these short vowel sound worksheets will be helpful. They are black and white to save ink, but also have line drawings that children will enjoy coloring.
Vowel Team Worksheets – A fun vowel printable for elementary students that has games and a mixture of activities.
Phonics Worksheets for Long Vowels
Long Vowel and Short Vowel Cut and Paste Worksheets Work on small motor skills while learning phonics rules with these vowel cut and paste worksheets.
Long Vowel Teams Worksheets: Write the Word Pages – these long vowel worksheets are great for elementary student who are able to read and write 4-letter words.
Phonics Worksheets for Short Vowels
Short a & a-e worksheets The Measured Mom is another place I frequented a lot when our children were little. These short a and e phonics worksheets are fun and offer a great way to master short vowels.
Short Vowel Activity Pages Kids will have fun using these activity pages that help them practice reading short vowels.
Short Vowel Missing Letter Mats – These printable vowel mats can be used to write in the missing letters or you can turn it into a fun cut and paste activity.
Short Vowel Worksheets (Stamp & Spell) You’ll find all the vowels represented in these short vowel worksheets.
Phonics Worksheet for Vowels in Sentences
Phonics Sentences Activities I really like these phonics sentence printables. Kids can read the sentence, highlight the vowels, and color the objects.
Printable Vowel Posters and Cards
Vowel Team Clip Cards Clip cards are a fun phonics activity for kids. You can print and laminate them for extra durability.
Printable Phonics Vowel Posters The Measured Mom has some adorable short vowel and long vowel posters that would be great for your homeschool binder or a word wall in your homeschool space.
Free Phonics Sounds Cards & Charts
If you enjoy using flash cards with your early learners, these printable phonics flash cards are a great tool to add to your homeschool day. Scroll to the bottom to learn how to gain access.
Phonics Worksheets for Blends
These phonics printables focus on dipthongs and blends and letter combination can help a beginning reader become fluent with success.
Phonics Worksheets for Diphthongs
Practice Sheets For oi and Diphthongs – Cute black and white worksheets that would be fun to color.
Diphthong Ladders – -au words, -aw words, -ew words, -oi words, -oo words, -ou words, -ow words, -oy words. You can also find printable diphthong wall cards for a small fee.
Dipthong Worksheets – Several different options for practicing dipthongs: interactive notebook, word sort, a fill-in-the-blanks reading page, and more.
Diphthong Cut & Paste Practice Improve phonics skills with these cut and paste worksheets.
Reading Mazes: Diphthong Paths If your children enjoy mazes and searching for words, then this phonics printable is one you should print.
Dipthong Puzzles – Sometimes incorporating a fun activity like puzzles can switch things up from a boring worksheet. Print off this free printable dipthong game for your kids today.
Diphthong Worksheets – Build & Write – Get your kids memorizing phonics sounds with this fun build and write activity page.
Phonics Worksheets for Digraphs
Free Digraph Worksheets – ch, th, sh – Perfect for kindergarten – 2nd grade, these free phonics printables would be fun for your kids.
Practice Reading Vowel Digraphs: ea |- Another phonics printable perfect for early elementary students, it focuses on vowel combination ea, as in the word bread.
More Phonics Worksheets for Blends
Color the Chunk Pages – What kid doesn’t love to color? This printable phonics worksheet will have your children remembering what the blends sound like in no time.
Trigraph Little Readers 1st and 2nd Grade – Use these trigraph readers once your children become more advanced in phonics.
Wait, what is a trigraph?
If you are wondering what a trigraph is, you are not alone, I was wondering the same thing. A trigraph is just a group of three letters that make one sound, whereas a digraph is a single sound made by two letters.
More Free Phonics Blends Worksheets
If you are hunting for blending sounds worksheets for beginning or ending blends, we have a list for you!
Phonics Worksheets for Beginning Blends
L, R & S Beginning Blend Worksheets This phonics download consists of 22 pages of printable blends worksheets – perfect for early elementary students.
Blend & Dab Beginning Blends Worksheets – Kids love the do-a-dot printables, why not get some phonics practice with them?
Phonics Worksheets for Ending Blends
Ending Blends Worksheets – If you are working on ending blends with your phonics lessons, these ending blend worksheets will be a fun addition.
Free Blends Coloring Pages: Sk, Sl, Sm, Sn – If coloring is your kid’s jam (what kid doesn’t love to color?), these free phonics coloring pages will cover ending blend sounds.
More Phonics Worksheets for Blends
S Blends Worksheets, R Blends Activities – These cure worksheet printables for phonics blends are full of variety – word find, word-match, coloring, and more!
Consonant Blends Activities – Printable Clip Cards – Printable clip cards are a great small-motor skills activity to help your young learner master consonant blends.
Free Printable Phonics Books
If you are looking for free phonics books to print from home, these are some of our favorite pdf downloads:
Free Phonics Cards – This isn’t a phonics book, but you can compile it into a fun set of phonics cards with an “O” ring. These colorful phonics flash cards can be used in all sorts of ways. If that’s not enough, grab 50 more phonics cards for free!
Phonics Books for VCCV Words
VCCV Words Books – These printable phonics books are cute, colorful, and don’t take up a lot of ink to print.
Printable Phonics Books
Printable Phonics Books {24 sets} – Learn how to print and “bind” your free phonics books and grab 24 different ones.
Word Family Phonics Books
Word Family Books for Short Vowels – These phonics books for short vowels are super easy to throw together.
2-Syllable Words Phonics Books
Phonics books for 2-syllable words – Once your child has mastered the short words, you can move on to learning words with 2 syllables.
Color and Trace Phonics Book
Color & Trace Blends Book – If you would prefer to print black and white phonics books, then these are perfect! Your kids will love reading them after they color the phonics blends.
Compound Words Phonics Books
Phonics Books for Compound Words – Moving on to more difficult words, these phonics books are specifically for compound words.
BOB Books Printables
BOB Books Printables for Sets 1 though 5 – BOB Books are a favorite in our home for new readers. Make the most out of them using these free printables for BOB Books.
Phonics Activities & More
Phonetic activities can be a fun way to teach phonics to beginning readers. These phonics charts, worksheets, games and phonics activities can make learning how to sound out words fun and less intimidating.
Low-Prep Short Vowel Games – Print & Play – These phonics games are so easy to do. Just print and play, no preparation needed (my kind of phonics game!).
6 Beginning Blends Game – Easy phonics games that don’t require anything but paper, ink, and dice (and an object for a marker).
Free Phonics Reference Charts– These printable phonics charts are super colorful and would look great on a homeschool wall.
Phonics Activities
Four-in-a-row games for ai and ay words – A bit like BINGO, you will use a dab-a-dot marker to mark the words.
Word Family Pull-Out Activity – A fun phonics activity, but requires a bit of putting together and making. If crafty things are not in your wheelhouse, it might not be for you.
Single Player Digraph Games – Single player games for the win! When you have children far apart in age, it might be difficult to get them to do learning activities together. This game is great for a single player.
Phonics Activities
R-controlled vowels: Go Fish! Who didn’t love playing Go Fish! as a child? Make learning fun with this printable Go Fish! phonics game.
Beginning Sounds Listening Game {with Digraphs} | This Reading Mama
Phonics Dice Games for Blends and Digraphs – Grab your dice and get rolling with this printable phonics activity. Dice games for a kids are fun to play and can help reinforce concepts learned.
Phonics Sound Cards
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In Conclusion
Emergent readers are a great place to start for teaching phonics skills. There are different ways to teach your child phonics, but the first step is learning the alphabet letters. You can do this through hands-on play, using word searches for letters recognition, and more.
You’ll need to teach your young children sight words too, and that can happen while you practice building phonetic skills. You can also work phonics lessons into a handwriting program.
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Annette has been married to her husband and best friend since 2003. Together they are raising their six children to follow the Lord’s will, no matter what. Annette longs for the day when she will meet her angel babies who have entered heaven before her. She enjoys creating UNIT STUDIES and FREE PRINTABLES for homeschool families. You can follow her crazy life at In All You Do where she blogs about homeschooling, homemaking and marriage while trying to maintain her sanity. She is also the owner of Thrifty Homeschoolers where she shares her tips on homeschooling without breaking the bank.
