1st Grade Find & Circle Words Worksheets
11 printable 1st Grade phonics worksheets on Find & Circle Words. Every sheet has an answer key — 11 in all. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: bag, hat, bus and bat; pan, bed, pot and duck; web, tent, tape and swing; sock, nest, king and shell; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 4 to 34 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 1. Every grade is on one page: Spelling Worksheets.
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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3 of 11 worksheets free · All Access opens the other 8 and all 11 answer keys
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All 11 worksheets in this set
- Look And Circle 1: bag, hat, bus and bat Free PDF
- Look And Circle 2: pan, bed, pot and duck Free PDF
- Look And Circle 3: web, tent, tape and swing Free PDF
- Look And Circle 4: sock, nest, king and shell
- Look And Circle 5: ring, net, train and kite
- Look And Circle 6: pie, bench, doll and tree
- Look And Circle 7: vest, star, bird and car
- Look And Circle 8: glue, jar, boat and tie
- Look And Circle 9: cone, feet, shirt and arm
- Look And Circle 10: tooth, foot, moon and book
- Look And Circle 11: king, train, rake and map
Teaching Find & Circle Words
What it is
Each item shows a picture and three spellings of its name — mop, mopp, mope — and the child circles the correct one. Choosing between near-misses makes a child read the whole word instead of guessing from the first letter and the picture.
When a child is ready
Use it once the child can already read the words in question; the task is judging a spelling, not decoding a new word.
If they struggle
When the wrong one is circled, read all three choices aloud exactly as they are written — mope really does say mope — so the ear throws two of them out. For choices that sound identical (bux, buks, box), name the pattern the child already knows: /ks/ at the end of a short word is written x.
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