1st Grade The WH Sound Worksheets
22 printable 1st Grade phonics worksheets on The WH Sound. Every sheet has an answer key — 22 in all. 5 activity types: Find And Color, Read And Draw, Roll And Read, Sentence Builder. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: God made the big whale; wh and w; The white duck swam to me; Jake can whip the cream; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 10 to 35 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 1. Every grade is on one page: Digraph and Consonant Blend Worksheets.
What is in this set: Find And Color (7), Read And Draw (7), Roll And Read (3), Sort And Write (3) and Sentence Builder (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 5 activity types: Find And Color, Read And Draw, Roll And Read, Sentence Builder, Sort And Write.
All 22 worksheets in this set
- Read And Draw 1: God made the big whale. Free PDF
- Find And Color 1: wh and w Free PDF
- Sort And Write 1: wh and w Free PDF
- Read And Draw 2: The white duck swam to me.
- Find And Color 2: wh and w
- Sentence Builder 1: God made the big whale.
- Read And Draw 3: Jake can whip the cream.
- Read And Draw 4: I know which hat is mine.
- Find And Color 3: wh and w
- Roll And Read 1: The wh sound
- Find And Color 4: wh and w
- Sort And Write 2: wh and w
- Read And Draw 5: A whale swims in the sea.
- Find And Color 5: wh and w
- Roll And Read 2: The wh sound
- Read And Draw 6: God made the white moon.
- Find And Color 6: wh and w
- Sentence Builder 2: God made the white moon.
- Sort And Write 3: wh and w
- Find And Color 7: wh and w
- Roll And Read 3: The wh sound
- Read And Draw 7: Dad got a new wheel.
Teaching The WH Sound
What it is
wh is two letters for one sound at the start of a word: whip, wheat, whale, wheel. Nearly all the question words carry it — what, when, where, why, which — so it repays teaching early.
When a child is ready
Teach it after sh, ch and th, since it belongs to the same two-letters-one-sound family.
If they struggle
Most children read wh exactly like w, which does no harm in reading; the trouble is spelling. Keep the question words on a small card the child checks against when writing. Point out who and whole separately — there the w is silent and the sound is /h/.
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