1st Grade Rhyming & Word Families Worksheets
98 printable 1st Grade phonics worksheets on Rhyming & Word Families. Every sheet has an answer key — 98 in all. 10 activity types: Build, Code Breaker, Cut And Glue Sort, Find And Color. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: i, o and u; a, o and u; web, net, top and cup; a, e and u; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 1 to 35 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 1. Every grade is on one page: Spelling Worksheets.
What is in this set: Roll And Read (25), Build (13), Find And Color (13), Word Chain (13), Cut And Glue Sort (12), Sort And Write (7), Word Hunt (6), Code Breaker (5), Flashcards (3) 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 10 activity types: Build, Code Breaker, Cut And Glue Sort, Find And Color, Flashcards, Lesson, Roll And Read, Sort And Write, Word Chain, Word Hunt.
All 98 worksheets in this set
- Cut And Glue Sort 1: i, o and u Free PDF
- Sort And Write 1: a, o and u Free PDF
- Build 1: web, net, top and cup Free PDF
- Cut And Glue Sort 2: a, o and u
- Cut And Glue Sort 3: a, e and u
- Sort And Write 2: a, e and u
- Word Chain 1: yes to dad
- Word Chain 2: ten to bed
- Word Chain 3: bath to hot
- Word Hunt 1: a, o and u
- Code Breaker 1: off, ill, toss and tick
- Code Breaker 2: ash, cash, pack and pass
- Roll And Read 1: did, get, man and not
- Roll And Read 2: cap, us, pet and pack
- Roll And Read 3: in, cut, which and had
- Find And Color 1: i, o and u
- Find And Color 2: a, o and u
- Find And Color 3: a, e and u
- Flashcards 1: wet, pin, nut and lap
- Cut And Glue Sort 4: a, o and u
- Cut And Glue Sort 5: a, e and u
- Cut And Glue Sort 6: a, e and i
- Sort And Write 3: a, o and u
- Sort And Write 4: a, e and u
- Sort And Write 5: a, e and i
- Build 2: web, fan, bat and mop
- Word Chain 4: men to red
- Word Chain 5: bed to hot
- Word Chain 6: yes to sad
- Word Hunt 2: a, o and u
- Word Hunt 3: a, e and u
- Word Hunt 4: a, e and i
- Code Breaker 3: off, ill, well and check
- Roll And Read 4: off, not, did and get
- Roll And Read 5: hug, wig, rid and hog
- Roll And Read 6: pan, rid, shell and had
- Find And Color 4: a, o and u
- Find And Color 5: a, e and u
- Find And Color 6: a, e and i
- Flashcards 2: can, cut, pin and leg
- Flashcards 3: lit, pen, dad and sun
- Build 3: well, fan, cat and map
- Find And Color 7: e, i and o
- Cut And Glue Sort 7: e, i and o
- Find And Color 8: e, i and o
- Cut And Glue Sort 8: a, o and u
- Build 4: nest, frog, well and sun
- Word Hunt 5: s-blends, l-blends and r-blends
- Cut And Glue Sort 9: s-blends, l-blends and r-blends
- Sort And Write 6: s-blends, l-blends and r-blends
- Build 5: bib, fan, net and top
- Word Chain 7: clap to crib
- Word Hunt 6: s-blends, l-blends and r-blends
- Code Breaker 4: end, elf, pond and dress
- Code Breaker 5: ink, inch, glad and plan
- Roll And Read 7: man, can, not and off
- Roll And Read 8: black, tick, sip and puff
- Find And Color 9: a, e and i
- Find And Color 10: a, e and i
- Word Chain 8: crab to clip
- Roll And Read 9: get, but, had and did
- Roll And Read 10: strong, flake, fact and stamp
- Find And Color 11: a, e and i
- Find And Color 12: a_e, i_e and o_e
- Build 6: net, pot, bat and top
- Cut And Glue Sort 10: i, o and u
- Sort And Write 7: i, o and u
- Build 7: bowl, sock, nest and bed
- Find And Color 13: i, o and u
- Lesson 1: a
- Build 8: bench, tape, top and cone
- Cut And Glue Sort 11: i, o and u
- Word Chain 9: sit to bird
- Word Chain 10: men to bird
- Build 9: shirt, cat, clock and soap
- Roll And Read 11: get, more, got and not
- Roll And Read 12: drink, curb, bite and thin
- Roll And Read 13: it, chain, score and pool
- Word Chain 11: grab to flip
- Roll And Read 14: get, more, can and not
- Roll And Read 15: park, ran, goal and fake
- Roll And Read 16: sunk, shell, crack and thing
- Build 10: tooth, church, belt and nest
- Word Chain 12: grab to slip
- Roll And Read 17: can, need, not and man
- Roll And Read 18: pig, bowl, fish and gave
- Roll And Read 19: truck, blink, sip and deep
- Cut And Glue Sort 12: e, i and o
- Build 11: bus, bag, kite and skirt
- Word Chain 13: bath to ten
- Roll And Read 20: not, more, had and can
- Roll And Read 21: pen, tried, blade and wipe
- Build 12: tent, bib, tree and wheat
- Roll And Read 22: more, but, can and off
- Roll And Read 23: sort, deep, cool and teeth
- Build 13: pot, ant, shell and cat
- Roll And Read 24: but, had, can and get
- Roll And Read 25: way, ox, grand and fit
Teaching Rhyming & Word Families
What it is
A word family is a group of words that share an ending: cat, hat, mat, sat. Reading by family shows a child that changing one letter changes the word. In Grade 1 the families are short-vowel words such as web, net, top and cup: the child sorts them by vowel, builds them, and reads them in word chains and roll-and-read games.
When a child is ready
Begin once the child knows the short vowels and can hear rhymes.
If they struggle
Build the words with letter tiles, swapping only the first letter. If the child guesses, cover the onset and read the family part first, then add the new first sound.
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