1st Grade The NG Sound Worksheets
17 printable 1st Grade phonics worksheets on The NG Sound. Every sheet has an answer key — 17 in all. 9 activity types: Build, Code Breaker, Cut And Glue Sort, Flashcards. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: nk; ink, thing, wing and sing; thank, thing, think and drink; st, ng and nk; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 6 to 34 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 1. Every grade is on one page: Digraph and Consonant Blend Worksheets.
What is in this set: Code Breaker (3), Word Hunt (3), Cut And Glue Sort (2), Flashcards (2), Roll And Read (2), Sort And Write (2), Build (1), Fluency (1) and Lesson (1).
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 9 activity types: Build, Code Breaker, Cut And Glue Sort, Flashcards, Fluency, Lesson, Roll And Read, Sort And Write, Word Hunt.
All 17 worksheets in this set
- Lesson 1: nk Free PDF
- Code Breaker 1: ink, thing, wing and sing Free PDF
- Fluency 1: thank, thing, think and drink Free PDF
- Word Hunt 1: st, ng and nk
- Code Breaker 2: sank, thank, song and sang
- Roll And Read 1: long, think, thank and thing
- Flashcards 1: long, think, bring and thank
- Cut And Glue Sort 1: st, ng and nk
- Sort And Write 1: st, ng and nk
- Build 1: skunk, swing, sink and king
- Word Hunt 2: i, o and u
- Word Hunt 3: st, ng and nk
- Code Breaker 3: ink, pink, sink and thing
- Roll And Read 2: king, blank, sunk and sang
- Flashcards 2: long, think, thing and thank
- Sort And Write 2: e, i and o
- Cut And Glue Sort 2: st, ng and nk
Teaching The NG Sound
What it is
ng is a single sound made at the back of the mouth and written with two letters: sang, long, hung, ring, strong. It closes a word or syllable, never begins one, and it is the sound at the end of every -ing word.
When a child is ready
Teach it after short vowels, once the child reads four-sound words such as stop and hand.
If they struggle
Children commonly read sang as san-g. Read the vowel and ng together as one chunk — ang, ing, ong, ung — then add the beginning sound. Starting with the -ing words the child already says all day, like running and singing, makes it land quickly.
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