Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

Give your child practice with the short "I" sound. This printable worksheet will improve reading skills as your child completes a coloring puzzle.

Bring your predictions to life in this fun activity! Students will make predictions about a book and then act out what they think will happen in the beginning, middle, and end.

Focus your beginning reader on sight words that start with the letter P by matching each word with its picture. This is a great reading activity for visual learners.

Spot the differences in ending sounds with this kindergarten and first-grade worksheet!

Blending sounds together to make words is an essential skill for young learners. Give first graders the practice they need by reading sounds aloud to them, and asking them to identify the word they hear.

What's the difference between a coat and celery? The hard and soft c sounds!

This worksheet will help your first grader understand the difference between a long vowel e and a short vowel e.

Looking for a worksheet that can help your kid practice identifying the different parts of speech? This printable is great for beginning readers.

Assess student understanding of common spelling patterns for vowel sounds with this quick sorting exercise. Young readers will read words and then write them out in the appropriate column for long or short vowel sounds.

That letter R can sure be bossy! Give your kids some extra practice with r-controlled vowels by having them identify the correct spelling-sound correspondences of these common words.

Learn about word families, and practice sounding out short e, with this phonics worksheet.

Focus on word families featuring the short i sound with this helpful worksheet.

Get on board with word families by practicing word families with a short u sound, as in -un or -ut.

Help your first grader learn about words that end in y and the different sounds they make.

Children identify words with long and short A sounds in this fun coloring worksheet.

All vowels behave differently. Explore the difference between the two "oo" sounds with this phonics worksheet.

Children identify words with long and short E sounds in this fun coloring worksheet.

Give learners fun phonics practice with this spring-themed "schwa" vowel sound sorting worksheet!

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Practice identifying long and short vowel sounds in this first-grade worksheet! 

Help these words find their missing letters! When writing long words, it can be easy to forget sounds. This worksheet helps students to think about all the sounds they hear as they fill in the letters to complete the names of each picture.

Support your students’ reading development with this spring-themed word sort!

Engage learners in word study practice with this "schwa" vowel sound sorting worksheet!

Learn the different sounds of the vowel blend "ea" with this fun word search puzzle!

Engage learners in spring phonics practice with this "schwa" vowel sound sorting worksheet!

Use this awesome story mountain template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. Students will use this activity to organize their thoughts about the beginning, problem, climax, solution, and ending of a story.

Engage learners in colorful phonics practice with this "schwa" vowel sound sorting worksheet!

The Humpty Dumpty story cards are mixed up and don’t make sense. Ask your students to solve this case by cutting the cards out and putting them in order from beginning, to the middle, and the end.