Year 1 Word puzzles worksheets

Cut out the words below, muddle them up and place them face down. Each player takes it in turns to turn two cards over and read the words aloud. If the words are the singular word and its plural when a suffix has been added they keep the pair; if not they turn them back over. When all the pairs have been collected the winner is the player with the most pairs.

Let's play a game of snap! Listen out for the /ure/, /ur/ and /er/ blends.

Let's play a game of sound snap! Listen out for the /ar/, /or/ and /ur/ blends.

In some words the letters e and a together make a short /e/ sound instead of the usual long /ee/ sound. Read these ‘ea’ words and then fill in the gaps in these sentences. Can you find them in the wordsearch?

Put the letters from the word EASY in the squares so that each column, row, and mini-grid contains all the letters that make up the word.

Practise your rhyming and spelling skills by thinking of names of animals that rhyme with each of these words. There could be more than one answer... how many can you identify?

Spot the nouns then place the missing nouns in the correct place in the story.

Lots of different professions have been hidden in these puzzle grids. Each one starts on the top line and works down in a line to the bottom. The line goes downwards or diagonally. Can you find the job names?

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