Kindergarten Worksheets and Workbooks Age 5-6

Ensure Early Academic Success with Kindergarten Worksheets and Kindergarten Workbooks

Kindergarten can be a challenging – but exciting – time. For many kids, this is the most time they've spent away from home and their parents on a regular basis. For all kids, this is a time of intense learning and growth. They will continue to practise their letters and sounds as they gain new vocabulary, improve their handwriting, and start communicating about their feelings more effectively.

Mrs Wordsmith has a variety of resources that are perfect for this transitional time, including prep worksheets, workbooks, books, and a card game. These resources are aligned with guidance in the Australian Curriculum. Some of the resources described on this page are appropriate for other age groups as well, so you may have seen them before.

For kids who are still working on learning their ABCs, our I Can Be a Butterfly handwriting prep printable worksheets (also available in workbook form) can provide extra support. These resources combine a hilarious story with letter-writing practice pages to teach the alphabet and handwriting – key skills for beginning readers and writers. The best prep worksheets are ones that make kids want to keep turning the page. We design our resources with this in mind.

For more prep printable worksheets, check out Foolproof Phonics Part 1, the first part of a step-by-step programme that takes kids through the different levels of phonics learning. Knowledge of sound-letter correspondences is key to successful reading instruction. This programme familiarises kids with all the terms they need to know and is based on systematic synthetic phonics, which introduces the most common sound-letter correspondences. 

Take a break from worksheets with our Blah Blah Blah Phonics Card Game that gets kids laughing and jumping up and down while they continue to build their foundational literacy skills. Easy to play at home or in the classroom, this game features 200 cards – covering 40 key sound-letter correspondences – to help kids become more confident readers.

Not all words are easy to sound out using phonics. That's why we created our Foolproof Sight Words workbook. This workbook is made up of printable kindergarten worksheets covering 200 important high-frequency words through colouring activities and puzzles that are easy to print and use at home or in the classroom. High-frequency words are common words that experts recommend kids memorise by sight. You can find more activities featuring high-frequency words in our See It! Stick It! Sight Words sticker books, which feature a colourful interactive twist: kids use stickers to reinforce their knowledge of hundreds of high-frequency words.

Beyond prep English worksheets, you can expand your child’s vocabulary with our My Epic Life books. These books are full of the vocabulary kids need to express themselves, and they encourage bite-sized learning: using short, highly focused activities based on one topic at a time. Studies suggest that bite-size learning is up to 90% more effective than cramming a lot of words in one go. Vocabulary is a strong predictor of future academic success, so it's never too early to start introducing kids to new words in bite-size sessions.

For a bit of everything, our "Colossal English" kindergarten workbook covers a whole year of English learning! What a great way to simplify the hunt for worksheets for 5 year olds...