2nd and 3rd Grade Phonics Worksheets

Students may know they can blend colors or food, but did they know they can blend letters too? Learn to use common consonant blends in this engaging worksheet! 

Distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds is one of the first steps in mastering vowels. Gauge student understanding of long and short vowels with this review activity.

Help your first grader practice pronouncing and recognizing R blends with this matching worksheet.

Use this resource with your students as they complete a variety of spelling activities for the words that have the /k/ and /kw/ sounds.

Give your second grader practice reading and decoding "ew" words with this worksheet that asks her to choose the word that completes each sentence.

In this worksheet, children will complete each sentence using a word with a long A sound.

Children practice dividing up VC/CV words by syllables in this spelling and grammar worksheet.

Let's practice identifying the blends at the end! Kids will sound out each word and identify the ending blend.

By now, your child knows that not all vowel sounds are the same. Challenge him to determine whether words contain a short or long vowel sound.

This worksheet helps students fine tune their understanding of letter-sound relationships and spelling patterns.

Children learn to identify, pronounce, and sort words with R-controlled vowels in this grammar and phonics worksheet.

The vowel team "ee" stars in this second grade review. Students will use context clues and a word bank to practice “ee” words.

Help your second grader master sounding out and reading "ow" words like cow and towel.

Practice dividing up V/CV words by syllables in this spelling and grammar worksheet!

The sentences on this worksheet are missing a word, each containing the long "e" sound. Choose words from the box to complete each sentence!

In this worksheet, learners will work with syllables in words with the VCE pattern, or Vowel, Consonant, Silent E pattern.

In this worksheet, choose words from the box to complete each sentence. This worksheet helps kids recognize long-vowel patterns and spell them correctly.

Kids sort long A vowel words in this worksheet.

Children will look at a list of 20 words and sort them according to whether they make a long or a short /oo/ sound.

On this second grade reading worksheet, kids sort words ending in "y" into two categories: the long "e" sound as in baby, or the long "i" sound as in spy.

Focusing on the letter blends ar and or, this worksheet helps build your child's repertoire of letter and sound combinations.

As your students have learned, different spellings can sometimes make the same sound, such as the au/aw or ou/ow vowel teams. Assess your students' abilities to distinguish between differently spelled aw/ow sounds with this end-of-year phonics check-in.

Get to know some awesome vowel teams in simple words that you already know. You'll identify the team, fill-in-the-blanks, and complete a fun wordsearch!

Ready for some vowel team review? Students will distinguish between the long and short e sounds for the “ea” vowel team.

Children will enjoy sorting short vowel words with this cut-and-paste activity.

Early readers determine if words are spelled with OU or OW in this appealing phonics and spelling worksheet.

Engage learners with fun and colorful phonics practice this season with these winter-themed word sorts!

Count the number of syllables in each of the words listed then write down each word in alphabetical order in the correct column.

Children work on phonics and spelling skills as they learn about the diphthong OW in this vocabulary-building worksheet.

Children practice dividing up VC/V words by syllables in this spelling and grammar worksheet.