Phonics Worksheets and Workbooks

Develop Foundational Literacy Skills with our Phonics Worksheets

English consists of about 44 sounds, but has more than 170 different ways to represent these sounds in writing. It's no wonder that learning to read can be so challenging! That's where phonics comes in. Early reading instruction should focus on systematic synthetic phonics in order to teach kids to recognise the patterns between these sound-letter correspondences. The better kids become at decoding letter-sound combinations, the better they are at reading and spelling.

That's why Mrs Wordsmith's curriculum-aligned range of materials includes plenty of phonics practice, and uses systematic synthetic phonics. From a phonics card game to phonics worksheets, a phonics workbook, phonics worksheets pdfs that you can print at home, and an easy-to-use teaching manual, our resources are science-based and informed by the latest research and expertise in reading instruction. They help kids develop foundational literacy skills at home or in the classroom.

Try our Foolproof Phonics worksheets, which are structured as a step-by-step programme that takes kids through the different levels of phonics learning, exactly the way they do it in school. In the UK, phonics instruction follows a sequence of phases, and our resources support each phase (you can read more about the phases of phonics instruction in our free Deep Dive Phonics teaching manual). 

Foolproof Phonics Part 1 and 2 include worksheets that cover all of the phases of phonics. Phase 1 teaches kids to identify different sounds (our printable phonics worksheets include unique audio support with recordings to enhance word-learning and give kids plenty of opportunity to listen and learn). Our Phase 2 phonics worksheets cover the most commonly used phonemes, and our Phase 3 phonics worksheets cover the rest. Phase 4 phonics worksheets focus on more challenging CVCC words and high-frequency words, while Phase 5 focuses on more complex grapheme-phoneme correspondences. Through systematic synthetic phonics instruction, kids learn the sounds that different graphemes make in a structured way, progressing from the most common to the rarest. Finally, worksheets that align with Phase 6 encourage kids to apply their skills to reading more complex words and sentences fluently.

If you’re looking for more worksheets for phonics practice, our Gargantuan Year 1 workbook covers an entire year of English learning, including phonics, vocabulary, grammar, high-frequency words, handwriting, and more.

Designed with literacy experts to follow the school curriculum, our phonics resources are organised into easy-to-follow levels. These include phonics exercises to improve knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences and decoding skills, consonant digraphs and vowel digraphs, and CVC, CCVC, AND CVCC words. Our phonics worksheets are generally built to be KS1 phonics worksheets, but older kids who need a bit of extra revision may find them useful phonics worksheets for KS2.

Phonics exercises for kids don't have to be boring, so we’ve illustrated our worksheets and workbooks so that they aren’t! Take the excitement to the next level with our Blah Blah Blah Phonics Card Game, a hilariously fun card game that helps kids learn to read using fast-paced gameplay.

Our phonics resources are the perfect tools to facilitate this  phase of kids’ learning, just as they embark upon a lifetime of reading. Backed by research and designed with experts, they make learning to read so fun that kids won't even realise they're doing it.