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1st Grade Silent Letters: kn Worksheets

9 printable 1st Grade phonics worksheets on Silent Letters: kn. Every sheet has an answer key — 9 in all. 6 activity types: Find And Color, Lesson, Read And Draw, Roll And Read. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.

On these sheets: kn; kn and n; Silent k, kn; Dad knocked on the gate; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 19 to 35 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 1. Every grade is on one page: Silent Letter Worksheets.

What is in this set: Find And Color (2), Read And Draw (2), Roll And Read (2), Lesson (1), Sentence Builder (1) and Sort And Write (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 6 activity types: Find And Color, Lesson, Read And Draw, Roll And Read, Sentence Builder, Sort And Write.

Lesson 1: kn Free Worksheet 1 of 9
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Find And Color 1: kn and n Free Worksheet 2 of 9
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Roll And Read 1: Silent k, kn Free Worksheet 3 of 9
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1st Grade phonics worksheet — Silent Letters: kn. Read And Draw 1: Dad knocked on the gate.
Read And Draw 1: Dad knocked on the gate. All Access
1st Grade phonics worksheet — Silent Letters: kn. Sort And Write 1: kn and n
Sort And Write 1: kn and n All Access
1st Grade phonics worksheet — Silent Letters: kn. Sentence Builder 1: God knew my name.
Sentence Builder 1: God knew my name. All Access
1st Grade phonics worksheet — Silent Letters: kn. Find And Color 2: kn and n
Find And Color 2: kn and n All Access
1st Grade phonics worksheet — Roll And Read 2: Silent k, kn
Roll And Read 2: Silent k, kn All Access
1st Grade phonics worksheet — Silent Letters: kn. Read And Draw 2: Gran is knitting a red hat.
Read And Draw 2: Gran is knitting a red hat. All Access
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All 9 worksheets in this set

  • Lesson 1: kn Free PDF
  • Find And Color 1: kn and n Free PDF
  • Roll And Read 1: Silent k, kn Free PDF
  • Read And Draw 1: Dad knocked on the gate.
  • Sort And Write 1: kn and n
  • Sentence Builder 1: God knew my name.
  • Find And Color 2: kn and n
  • Roll And Read 2: Silent k, kn
  • Read And Draw 2: Gran is knitting a red hat.

Teaching Silent Letters: kn

What it is

In the kn spelling, the k is silent and only the n is heard: knee, knot, knife, know.

When a child is ready

Teach silent letters once the child reads blends and digraphs confidently and no longer sounds out every letter.

If they struggle

The child will try to say /k/. Explain that kn is an old spelling from when the k was pronounced; the k is a clue to meaning, not to sound. Read the small kn word family as a group.

Similar: Silent Letters: wr
This skill in other grades: Grade 2 · Grade 3 · Grade 4 · Grade 5

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