This post covers 10 free Phonics worksheets for kindergarten that are available online. Phonics is a way of teaching children by breaking the letters into small sounds. For example, you can break the word from hat to h-a-t. It is a good way to help children learn English letters and sounds. English is a difficult language and kids find it difficult to make the connection between letters and sounds. These free websites can help children understand the difference between letters of written language and sounds of spoken language.
These free phonics worksheets for kindergarten are amazing. You can take prints of these worksheets and provide them to children for practice. These sites have variable phonics worksheets like vowels, consonants, letter sounds, etc., through which you can teach kids English words in a simple way. These worksheets can be tried at home or school.
Let’s go through these free worksheets for kindergarten websites one by one.
1. KindergartenWorksheets
KindergartenWorksheets is a good website for kids. The site provides phonics worksheets for kindergarten in variety. Children can identify the letter sound of each word easily. Practicing these worksheets, kids can learn to make the connection by identifying the first letter of each word.
You can see in the above image are two phonics worksheets. In the first one, Children have to choose the beginning sound of each word from the hints. Thereafter, they have to write the correct letter below each picture in the worksheet to complete the word. In this way, kids can know the name of the objects and also can recognize the beginning sound of words.
In the second worksheet, there are 8 pictures in the box as you can see in the above image. Here, Children have to cut out these pictures and then they have to paste these pictures in the boxes provided above that contain upper/small case letters. For example, if I cut a picture of the cat then I will paste it in the box containing the Cc letters. Similarly, the picture of an apple will be pasted in the box of letter Aa.
The site offers other phonics worksheets. Teachers and Parents can take a printout of these worksheets to teach children about phonics.
2. Education.com
Education.com is the website that offers multiple phonics worksheets. The site has quite a good collection of Phonics worksheets for kindergarten. You can see in the above image the phonics worksheet in which a child has to say the name of each picture and then find the beginning sound from the two options mentioned on each object’s picture. For example, in the first object picture, there is a hat and a child has to choose its beginning letter h to complete the word hat.
There are other worksheets, on which children can practice. I tried one more from the Education.com site as you can see in the above image. Children have to finish the poem by using rhyming words. For example, the first line says- Mr. Bear loves to eat. Here, a child has to see what Mr. Bear is eating in the picture. Thereafter, kids have to use word Honey from the options mentioned in the right box. In this way, Children can complete the poem with the help of using phonics.
3. K5 Learning
K5 Learning is a simple website that offers phonics worksheets for kindergarten where children can learn the relationship between the sound and letters. You can see the above image. Here, children have to write words phonetically. For example, in the first picture, children have to look at the picture and then they have to circle the correct letter the word begins with. Then they have to complete the word by writing the circled letter.
Another worksheet in the above picture, is Unscramble the letters. In this worksheet kids have to look at the given picture, and read the scrambled letters below it. Then they have to make a word out of these jumbled letters. For example, the first object picture is of a cup so here children need to unscramble letters from u-c-p to c-u-p.
The site offers other phonics worksheets for kindergarten to help kids in learning sounds and words. Teachers or Parents can take a printout of these worksheets and give them to kids for practice.
4. EDUBUZZKIDS
EDUBUZZKIDS has quite a good collection for phonics worksheets. Like in the above image, there are words where children have to identify rhyming picture. For example, the first word is Train and the child has to find the word that has same sound. The word Train has a similar sound as the word Rain. So the children have to circle rain. Similarly, other picture can be solved in the same way like Ear for Deer, Handle for Candle.
Another phonics worksheet that I tried was about tracing the beginning sounds. The worksheet had letter Aa with the picture of an ant, apple and aeroplane. Here, kids had to trace letter Aa.
There are other phonics worksheets for kindergarten that you may try and take a printout for kids so that they can learn phonics in a fun way.
5. All Kids NETWORK
This website (All Kids NETWORK) has many printable kindergarten phonics worksheets. The site offers worksheets to help children in learning beginning sounds, consonants blend worksheets, and many other.
As you can see in the above image, it asks kids to identify the beginning letter sound of the picture. For example, the very first worksheet has the image of an umbrella. Here, kids have to identify the beginning letter sound of the image and then circle the letter that begins with letter U.
Another worksheet, as you can see in the above image, asks kids to look at the pictures and then write the correct consonant blend to complete. For example, the first picture is of a chair and the sheet has last 3 letters only. Here, kids have to write consonants by writing ch to complete the word chair. Similarly, other words will be completed by kids in the same way.
6. JUMPSTART
JUMPSTART has a beautiful collection of phonics worksheets for kids. The site offers many worksheets through which kids can enjoy and learn phonics in a playful manner.
In the above image, the first phonics worksheet named Word Builder asks children to look at the pictures and make a line through letters to form a word. There are other phonics worksheets for kindergarten available on the site.
Another worksheet that asks kids to identify the letter C. You can see in the image below.
Here, kids have to look at the pictures and identify the objects that start with letter C. Thereafter, kids have to color the objects. For example, the words like Cat, Crocodile and Car start with letter C. Here, children have to color these 3 objects.
7. guruparents
The website (guruparents) has many phonics worksheets for kindergarten that can be printed out. Teachers and Parent can use these sheets for children.
You can see in the above image, there is a picture along with different letters. Children have to identify the name of the object and then connect those letters by coloring them. Thereafter, children can write the complete word on the line provided next to the letters. For example, the first image is of the sun. Here, kids have to connect s-u-n with a line and then color them. Thereafter, kids can write the complete word on the line.
8. FREE Phonics Worksheets
FREE Phonics Worksheets is a good website that offers phonics worksheets for kindergarten. Children can learn consonants, vowels and letter sounds. You can see in the above image, children have to color vowels with green color and consonants with red color. It is an easy way to teach children about vowels and consonants.
The site has other phonics worksheets for kindergarten like Beginning consonants, Ending consonants, vowels and so on. Teachers can take a printout of these worksheets and teach children in playful way.
9. my Teaching Station
This website (my Teaching Station) has many worksheets that offer phonics lessons. You can see in the above image, it asks kids to match words with the pictures. Like there is a picture of a mug and kids have to circle the word mug.
In the second worksheets, you can see there are words that start with B. Children have to speak out these words so that they know the sound of these words.
10. K12 Reader
K12 Reader is a website that provides many phonics worksheets for kindergarten. The site offers worksheets where kids can learn about vowels, consonants, letter sounds, etc.
In the above screenshot, you can see there are autumn leaves with vowels printed on them. The children have to recognize the leaf with a vowel and then they have to circle those leaves that contain vowels.
Other worksheets provided by K12 Reader website teach children a different way of learning vowels. I tried another phonics worksheet that had balloons in the air. Each balloon had a short and long vowel. Children have to recognize the long vowels and short vowels and then mark them.
Apart from teaching kids these phonics worksheets for kindergarten, you can also read this article to learn ABC online.
In brief
These free websites work wonderfully for children and have a range of free phonics worksheets for kindergarten. Phonics worksheets can assist children in learning phonics rules of reading. The worksheets are printable and can be tried by teachers or parents.
