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Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

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! 

Get your students thinking about the different sounds that the -ed ending makes when it's used to indicate the regular past tense.

This second grade reading and writing worksheet gives kids practice with homophones as they choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

This exercise is designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

Help your beginning reader learn about phonetic spellings that show how to pronounce a word. In this activity, she'll match each word with its pronunciation.

Challenge your third grade mathematicians with these addition and subtraction word problems. This exercise is designed to assess your students' math level at the beginning of third grade.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The letter G is one of those tricky consonants that can make different sounds (as in girl or gym). That can be confusing for young readers! Help them sort out hard and soft consonant patterns with this helpful practice worksheet.

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.

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

Identify the correct way to split syllables in this second- and third-grade worksheet!

Check whether you have a photographic memory of ch and ph digraph words in this spelling worksheet!

Keep your phonics skills in mind as you find each of the rhyming pairs in this engaging worksheet!

Have a ball this fall by identifying rhyming words in this first- and second-grade worksheet!

Show what you know with this spring-themed rhyming worksheet for first and second graders!

Dive into a digraph challenge that puts young readers on the path to word-building success!

Learn words like write, wrong, and thumb in this bright, inviting worksheet!

Can you find all the -ar words in this colorful phonics worksheet?

Do this worksheet if you dare, try to find each word pair!

Laura mixed up the homophones in her personal narrative, so it's up to your student to correct them.

Is your second grader learning vowels? This worksheet helps kids recognize long-vowel patterns and spell them correctly.

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

Learn to spell and pronounce words like knight, gnome, and sign in this engaging phonics 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!