Free Phonics Worksheets – Printable & Customizable

Fun Ways To Use Phonics Worksheets

Use this phonics worksheet generator page to create customized phonics worksheets to reinforce the phonics skills that your children are working on. First select the content (consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) word families, vowel-consonant-e (VCE) or silent-e word families, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams, and diphthongs). It is best to select only content that you children have learned or are learning now. Do not include concepts that students have not yet learned. Begin with short vowel word families or consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. If your child is currently working on “short a words,” you can create a customized phonics worksheet with only short a words on it and even select which short a word families you want.

After selecting the content, you can select which worksheet type you would like: Missing Sounds, Word Sort, or Write the Word. The Missing Sounds Worksheet allows you to select if you want the initial/beginning, medial/middle, or final/ending sound missing. You can select if you would like the missing sounds phonics worksheet to contain only consonants at the beginning of words or also consonant blends (st, bl, etc.) and/or digraphs (th, sh, ch, etc.) If your child has not yet learned blends or digraphs, begin with just the consonant sounds.

We provide a Word Sort Worksheet for short vowel consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) word families, silent-e or vowel-consonant-e (VCE) word families, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams, and diphthongs. For the CVC word families and VCE word families you can even select specific word families for the word sort (for example at and ad).

To find out which phonics concepts your students need to work on, use the Phonics Assessment which uses nonsense words to assess student knowledge of phonics rules.

The Write the Word worksheet shows students pictures of words that follow the phonics rule you selected under content as well as lines and a word bank. This allows them to start writing words based on their knowledge of letter sounds. You can select if you would like the worksheet to have handwriting lines for younger students or single lines for more advanced writers or older students.

Please share your customized phonics worksheets and how you are using them with us on social media using the links at the bottom of the page or email us at literacyworksheets@gmail.com.

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About our free phonics worksheets

Our free phonics worksheet generator lets you build printable phonics practice in minutes. Choose a worksheet type and the sounds to focus on — short and long vowels, consonant blends, digraphs, and word families — then customize the words to match what your students are learning.

Every phonics worksheet can be printed for free or assigned digitally to your students. Teachers and homeschooling parents use it to create no-prep practice for kindergarten through 2nd grade and beyond.

Frequently asked questions

Are these phonics worksheets free?

Yes. You can create and print phonics worksheets for free, with no login required to print. A free account also lets you save worksheets and assign them to students.

Can I make my own phonics worksheets?

Absolutely — that's the whole idea. Pick the phonics skill and choose your own words so the worksheet matches your lesson, your decodable readers, or your students' current level.

What phonics skills can I create worksheets for?

You can build worksheets for letter sounds, CVC words, consonant blends and digraphs, vowel teams, word families, and other common phonics patterns.

What grade levels are these phonics worksheets for?

They work well for pre-K, kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade phonics instruction, and for older students who need extra decoding practice or intervention.

Phonics Assessments

If you are unsure where to start, use this assessment to see what phonics concepts your child already knows and what they need to work on. Print the student form and have students read the words one row at a time while you record their answers on the recording form. When a student misses 3 words in a row, or if they are struggling, discontinue the assessment.