Kindergarten Reading Worksheets (FREE Printables)
Kindergarten is the time to build a strong reading foundation, as kids work to master the alphabet and start sounding out beginning words. These bundles of free printable reading worksheets for kindergarteners can help reinforce some of the key skills they need. You’ll find
Many of the worksheet collections featured below include tips for extending your child’s learning as they use the worksheets or fun activities to try with them.
What Reading Skills Do Kindergarteners Learn?
In kindergarten, kids work to fully master the letters of the alphabet and their corresponding sounds. Then, they’re ready to start turning those sounds into words. Our kindergarten reading worksheets aim to provide children practice in these areas.
Here’s what kindergarten reading practice should include:
- Make letter-sound correspondence automatic. Children should recognize letters and the sounds they make with ease.
- Read and write all letters in both uppercase and lowercase.
- Recognize long vowel sounds and short vowel sounds.
- Begin sounding out 2 and 3 letter words, including consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words.
- Work on kindergarten sight words, which are words that don’t follow traditional spelling patterns. New readers memorize many of these words rather than trying to sound them out.
The ABCmouse Kindergarten Reading Worksheets
These reading worksheets can help reinforce the essential skills that kindergarteners are working to master. Some children may benefit from having an adult or older sibling nearby to assist them as needed.
Hard and Soft Sounds of C and G
Our Hard and Soft Letter Sounds for C and G worksheets aim to grow understanding around the sounds of these two letters, which can help with spelling and word recognition and deciphering.
Color by Sight Word Worksheets
These worksheets create a fun opportunity for your child to practice recognizing high-frequency words while coloring in a variety of scenes. These downloadable PDFs present words at different challenge levels to help encourage learning and keep it enjoyable.
Missing Letter Activities
Children can practice their phonics skills by filling in the missing letters in various words and strengthen their ability to identify letter sounds and letter blends.
Word Family Worksheets
Word Family Reading Worksheets aim to enhance your child’s CVC word skills, as each printable worksheet explores a family of words that start with a consonant and end with the same two letters families.
Two-Letter Sight Words Worksheets
These Two-Letter Sight Words Worksheets create a gentle introduction to high-frequency words as your child works to trace, pronounce, spell, and eventually recognize these words by sight.
Three-Letter Sight Words Worksheets
Keep building on your child’s high-frequency word skills with these worksheets featuring three-letter sight words for your child trace, decode, write, and work on recognizing.
Color by Letter Worksheets
Kindergarteners are working to be masters of the alphabet so they can use those letters to construct and read words. These free printable Color by Letters Worksheets are designed to improve letter recognition as children color in various images with a color key.
