1st Grade Double Letters Worksheets
21 printable 1st Grade phonics worksheets on Double Letters. Every sheet has an answer key — 21 in all. 6 activity types: Build, Code Breaker, Flashcards, Fluency. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: ill, off, fill and doll; cup, lap, quit and mess; well, mess, skill and hiss; off, tell, less and stuff; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 1 to 31 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 1. Every grade is on one page: Digraph and Consonant Blend Worksheets.
What is in this set: Flashcards (5), Code Breaker (4), Roll And Read (4), Fluency (3), Lesson (3) and Build (2).
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Grade 1, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. Preview a reading week to see how its lessons run. See every program →
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Includes 6 activity types: Build, Code Breaker, Flashcards, Fluency, Lesson, Roll And Read.
All 21 worksheets in this set
- Code Breaker 1: ill, off, fill and doll Free PDF
- Flashcards 1: cup, lap, quit and mess Free PDF
- Roll And Read 1: well, mess, skill and hiss Free PDF
- Flashcards 2: off, tell, less and stuff
- Lesson 1: ll
- Build 1: shell, well, bell and dress
- Fluency 1: still, off, tell and hill
- Code Breaker 2: ill, chill, till and bill
- Roll And Read 2: well, mess, fluff and fuss
- Flashcards 3: off, tell, less and stuff
- Lesson 2: ss
- Build 2: bell, well, doll and grass
- Fluency 2: off, still, less and well
- Code Breaker 3: ill, tell, till and fill
- Roll And Read 3: chill, mess, smell and tell
- Flashcards 4: off, still, less and stuff
- Lesson 3: ff
- Fluency 3: off, well, still and tell
- Code Breaker 4: ill, pill, chill and bill
- Roll And Read 4: stuff, bless, off and sniff
- Flashcards 5: off, still, less and stuff
Teaching Double Letters
What it is
When the same consonant is written twice in the middle of a word, only one sound is heard: sup-per, bub-ble, hit-ting, tag-ging. The second letter is not read at all; it is there to keep the vowel in front of it short.
When a child is ready
Teach it when the child begins reading two-syllable words and words with -ing or -ed added on.
If they struggle
If the child says the sound twice, cover one letter of the pair, read the word, then uncover it and read it exactly the same way. Splitting between the two — sob/bing, tag/ging, sup/per — gives two easy parts to read before saying the whole word.
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