Reception Phonics worksheets

Sometimes b gets muddled with d and h gets muddled with n. Can you highlight all the bs and all the ds in two different colours? Now cut out these words and play Pairs or Snap!

Read each of these sentences and then draw a picture that describes what the sentence says.

Tricky words are ones that your child can’t sound out with their phonics knowledge but need to be learned and remembered. Here are some ideas to help your child learn tricky words.

Cut out these word cards and play bingo with your child. Sometimes you can be the bingo caller and sometimes they should take a turn.

Which of these words end in ‘ss’? Colour in the pictures of the words that have an /s/ sound at the end.

Print and cut out these words with double consonants and play a game of Pairs.

Play this fun memory game and see how many 'oi' words you know.

Shuffle the word cards and share them between two players. The oldest player starts the game by turning over a card and placing it face up on the table or floor. Each player then takes turns placing cards, face up, next to the card. When the word card and picture card match that’s SNAP! The player with most cards at the end wins.

This is a learning-to-read game sometimes used in schools. Cut out all the CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words and hold them in a pile. Sit in front of your child and show them one of the words (for example, man). Then show them some of the other words; when you show them a word they’ve already seen (like man) again they shout ‘Full Circle’! The Full Circle exercise will help encourage your child to read the CVC words at a glance. They are looking at the letters in the words and the shape of the words – this is what learning to read is largely about!