Mastering vowel sounds is an important step on the path to reading! Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a long A sound by having them read these sight words aloud.

Children will identify and circle the words that use long vowels, then match words to vowels, in this colorful phonics worksheet.

Fish + bow = fishbow...? No, that's not right! Engage your young learners in understanding and forming compound words with this fun worksheet. Students will use words from a word bank to create compound words in this word structure activity.

Test your first grader's sight words spelling savvy with this printable quiz.

Focusing on the long u sound, this worksheet helps kids get to know the long u sound and learn to recognize it in words.

Can you spot the action words in each sentence? Help your little reader practice identifying parts of speech with this action verb exercise.

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Time for a reading check-in? Assess your students’ abilities to read grade-level sight words using this quick reading inventory.

Compound words are much like addition, but with words instead of numbers. Can your second grader add up the words on this worksheet?

Compound your knowledge of compound words with this engaging worksheet!

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

Help your child see patterns among rhyming words with this fun word-building worksheet.

Kids read words with the suffix -ed, and practice their handwriting by writing them in the blanks to make sentences.

Use the How to Use Kind Words worksheet to teach students the steps to take in using kind words with others, then have them practice while interacting with each other.

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Use this worksheet for visuals to help students segment four letter words.

Use this word list of words ending in "ck" to help your child work on phonics skills!

Get ready for the holidays with this fun spelling activity! Students learn to listen for all the sounds in holiday words in order to fill in the missing letters while learning how to spell the words of the season.

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

You’ll have CVC words down pat by the time you complete this phonics worksheet for kindergarteners and first graders!

In this language arts worksheet, students practice identifying words with silent letters by solving fun riddles.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing with Transition Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Mastering vowel sounds is an important step on the path to reading! Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a long E sound by having them read these sight words aloud.

Mastering vowel sounds is an important step on the path to reading! Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a long I sound by having them read these sight words aloud.

Mastering vowel sounds is an important step on the path to reading! Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a long O sound by having them read these sight words aloud.

Mastering vowel sounds is an important step on the path to reading! Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a long U sound by having them read these sight words aloud.

Use this resource to give your students practice using guide words to determine a word’s location in the dictionary.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.