6 free spelling patterns & rules resources for 1st Grade: 6 worksheets. Answers included.
Phonics patterns, suffixes, prefixes and tricky words. 1st grade students count, order and add numbers to 20 and beyond, start to use place value (tens and ones), tell o'clock and half-past time and recognize coins.
Students will practice: hearing both sounds in a consonant blend; reading words that start with a blend; writing the missing blend in a word; hearing two sounds at the end of a word; reading words with ending blends; spelling words with ending blends; adding silent e to change a short vowel to a long vowel; hearing the difference between short and long vowels.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
In a consonant blend two letters sit side by side and you hear both sounds, like the b and l in black. Children circle the word that…
Some words end with two consonant sounds blended together, like hand, nest, jump and pink. Children circle the word with each ending…
When a silent e is added to the end of a short word, the vowel says its name: cap becomes cape, kit becomes kite and hop becomes hope.…
Ten tricky sight words that do not sound out the way they look: they, have, come, some, were, there, what, who, does and put. Children…
Find words that rhyme (cat, hat), spot the word that does not rhyme, and hear rhymes with different spellings (blue, shoe). Starts with…
Build words by joining a first sound to a word family (c + at = cat, sh + op = shop) and make new words by changing the first sound.…
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Phonics patterns, suffixes, prefixes and tricky words. At 1st Grade, our resources focus on: hearing both sounds in a consonant blend; reading words that start with a blend; writing the missing blend in a word; hearing two sounds at the end of a word.
Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.
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