Kindergarten Language Arts Worksheets
All of our printable worksheets are ordered here by the kindergarten curriculum standard that it aligns with. Some area of the standards that call for tactile or kinesthetic work will not be covered by our worksheets. Take a look at all the topics as they are in somewhat of a progression state.
Reading: Literature
Key Details From Texts - A nice mix of beginning comprehension sheets for you to work with. [RL.K.1]
Retelling Familiar Stories - Students take a slight step to the next level of reading for understanding with this work. [RL.K.2]
Retelling Famous Stories - These stories you are sure to have heard before. You probably know them all. [RL.K.2]
Identifying the Characters, Settings, and Major Events in Stories - Readers begin to dissect the story in parts and understand the concept of a story. [RL.K.3]
Understanding Unknown Words in a Text - Somewhat of a context clue series of sheets. [RL.K.4]
Kindergarten Vocabulary - These are high frequency terms that are outside the scope of sight words. [RL.K.4]
Authors and Illustrators As Story Tellers - What's the saying? "A picture is worth a thousand words." [RL.K.6]
Parts of a Book - Students begin to understand the name an uses of different sections of a complete book. [RL.K.6 and RL.1.7]
Relationship Between Illustrations and the Story - This topic begins to become more abstract as kids progress to higher levels. [RL.K.7]
Comparing Characters in Stories - This is a pretty advanced skill for kindergarteners. We were surprised the Curriculum committee went there. [RL.K.9]
Reading For Purpose and Understanding - You should have this topic for when your readers have a developed scheme for text.[RL.K.10]
Reading: Information
Asking and Answering Questions About Text - A nice mix of beginning comprehension sheets for you to work with. [RI.K.1]
Retelling Topics and Key Details of Text - Students take a slight step to the next level of reading for understanding with this work. [RI.K.2]
Connecting Two Individuals, Events, or Ideas - A nice mix of beginning comprehension sheets for you to work with. [RI.K.3]
Understanding Unknown Reading Words - Students take a slight step to the next level of reading for understanding with this work. [RI.K.4]
Identifying Covers and Titles of Books - A nice mix of beginning comprehension sheets for you to work with. [RI.K.5]
Determining Authors and Illustrators of Texts - Students take a slight step to the next level of reading for understanding with this work. [RI.K.6]
Relationships Between Illustrations and Texts - A nice mix of beginning comprehension sheets for you to work with. [RI.K.7]
Support Points in a Text - Students take a slight step to the next level of reading for understanding with this work. [RI.K.8]
Compare and Contrast Texts - A nice mix of beginning comprehension sheets for you to work with. [RI.K.9]
Group Reading Activity - Students take a slight step to the next level of reading for understanding with this work. [RI.K.10]
Reading: Foundational Skills
Following Words and Pages While Reading - We work on directional reading, reading lists, and spatial relational. [RF.K.1.A]
Recognizing Spoken Words in Writing - We ponder if we are looking at a letter, word, number, or symbol. [RF.K.1.B]
Recognizing Words - A great deal of time is spent helping students understand spacing between words and sentences. [RF.K.1.C]
Naming Upper and Lower Case Letters - It comes down to understanding which letter go together. [RF.K.1.D]
Letter Recognition - We get to know our CAPITAL and lower case letters. A vital kindergarten curriculum skill. [RF.K.1.D]
Letter Sounds - It comes down to understanding which letters go together and the sounds they make. [RF.K.1.D]
Alphabetic Patterns - There is some math involved here. It's somewhat of a crossover standard. [RF.K.1.D]
The Alphabet - The focus here is on the upper and lower case symbols. [RF.K.1.D]
Alphabet Flashcards -Great for practicing your ability to identify letters. [RF.K.1.D]
Days of The Week - Even out the days that end in -day. Kindergarten is where we start learning calendars. [RF.K.1.D]
Months of the Year -Learn to name all the months and in order. [RF.K.1.D]
Preschool Reading -These worksheets serve as a nice introduction into this skill. [RF.K.1]
Distinguishing Letters, Numbers, and Words - This is a baseline skills for all readers. [RF.K.1.D]
Making Rhyming Words - This takes some creativity to flow well. [RF.K.2.A]
Syllables In Spoken Words - Take place in syllable counts and use of syllables. [RF.K.2.B]
Types of Sentences - Label the format that is present in each being displayed in each instance. [RF.K.2.B]
Rhyming - One of my favorite things to work on at the Kindergarten level. [RF.K.2.B]
Identifying Rhyming Words - This is an identification activity. [RF.K.2.B]
Blend, Segments, and Onsets of Single-Syllable Words - There is a great deal of function to the skills we explore here. [RF.K.2.C]
Isolate and Pronounce Phonemes - Word sounds are important. This unit is difficult for Second Language Learners. [RF.K.2.D]
Minimal Pairs - We look at pairs of words that differ by a single sound. [RF.K.2.d, RF.K.1]
Changing Phonemes to Make New Words - It amazing how vowels change words so much. [RF.K.2.E]
Phoneme Isolation - This is where kids start to learn to chunk words and word parts. [RF.K.2]
Phoneme Segmenting - This is the part of the dictionary that confuses most people. [RF.K.2]
Phoneme Substitution - Move this part of the sound out and replace it with another. [RF.K.2]
CVC Words - Words that flow with a Consonant - Vowel - Consonant pattern. [RF.K.2]
CVCe (Silent e) - Consonant - Vowel - Consonant when a silent "e" is included. [RF.K.2]
CVVC Words - Consonant - Vowel - Vowel - Consonant letter pairs and the sound that comes with them. [RF.K.2]
Letters and Sounds - These worksheets look at the sounds that come off of letters. [RF.K.3.A]
Primary Consonant Sounds - Students learn the most often used sound for each consonant of the alphabet. [RF.K.3.A]
Long and Short Sound Spelling - Students look at frequently used words in this unit. [RF.K.3.B]
Reading High Frequency Words By Sight - The Common Core slightly deviates from traditional Dolch in it's classification of sight words for this level. [RF.K.3.C]
Dolch Preprimer Sight Words - These are geared for preschool and Kindergarten students. [RF.K.3.C]
Dolch Primer Sight Words - The target level is kindergarten, but it has some first grade applications too. [RF.K.3.C]
Word Families - We look at words that share patterns in spelling and make sense of them. [RF.K.3.D]
Add and Delete Phonemes - This is when you start build new words or remember common words. [RF.K.3]
Reading Readiness - Are your students ready to begin reading full sentences? You will find out with these worksheets. [RF.K-1.3]
Emergent-Reader Texts - Focus on a variety of writing styles to read and understand. [RF.K.4]
Feelings Vocabulary - This helps students explain their day much better to adults. [RF.K.4]
Printable Reading Logs - Keep a detailed log of how much you read is really helpful to identify problems. [RF.K-5]
R Controlled Vowels - Students quickly find out that "R" is very pushy. [RF.K-1]
Language
Printing Uppercase and Lowercase Letters - Penmanship is a lost art. This section hopes to help kids have better handwriting than doctors. [L.K.1.A]
Frequently Used Nouns and Verbs - The verbs and nouns that are used are super high frequency words. [L.K.1.B]
-ES and -S Plural Nouns - Transform sentences and words from the singular form to the plural form. [L.K.1.C]
Using Question Words - The focus here is on writing and answering interrogatives like the 5 Ws and "how". [L.K.1.D]
Frequently Used Preposition - We used a wide range of prepositions to make sure every kindergartener is challenged. [L.K.1.E]
Expanding Sentences - You are given a simple sentence (4-6 words). We give you an additional word that you need to build into the sentence. [L.K.1.F]
Preschool Spelling - These should be used to help students review words at this level. [L.K.1]
Capitalizing First Words and the Pronoun I - This was a skill that my son did not master until grade 6. It was so frustrating for both of us. [L.K.2.A]
End Punctuation - It's all about periods (.), exclamations (!), and question marks (?) at this level. [L.K.2.B]
Initial and Final Consonant Blends - This is where non-vowel phonics skills are starting to be built. [L.K.2.C]
Writing Beginning and Ending Consonants - This is the true start of traditional spelling programs. [L.K.2.C]
Writing Short Vowel Sounds - This is where students will tackle phonemes. They need to understand the sound they make and what objects have that sound.[L.K.2.C]
Phonetic Spelling - This should not be a memorization activity. We are trying to work on sound-letter relationships. [L.K.2.D]
Kindergarten Spelling - Start with basic letter patterns to help you work up on these. [L.K.2.D]
Words with Multiple Meanings - This is truly why English is a very difficult language to learn as a second language. We really love to repeat words. [L.K.4.A]
Using Inflections and Affixes to Define Words - You will work on the most frequently occurring prefixes and suffixes at this level. [L.K.4.B]
Sort Objects Into Basic Categories - We group 3 to objects, items, or animals into categories with unique properties. [L.K.5.A]
Relating Verbs and Adjectives to Their Antonyms - The concept of opposite appears for the first time. [L.K.5.B]
Words and Their Use - Penmanship is a lost art. This section hopes to help kids have better handwriting than doctors. [L.K.5.C]
Opposites - Your basic night/day, black/white, up/down format. [L.K.5.C]
Shades of Verb Meanings Lists - This is one of those standards that most kindergarteners are simply not ready for. The vocabulary words required are just too high. [L.K.5.D]
Describing Objects - Giving solid descriptions is a very unrated skill. It is not easy at the kindergarten level. [L.K.5]
Learning Colors - Help students become familar and comfortable with all the basic colors. [L.K.5]
Conversational Vocabulary Words - You will find words here that are mostly found through discussion. [L.K.6]
All About Me - Encourage students to communicate and use their language skills discussing their favorite subject, themselves. [L.K.6]
Writing
Kindergarten Opinion Writing - We start off simple an progress into full blown opinions. [W.K.1]
Prewriting - The skills you need prior to writing your own work. They start basic and advance quickly. [W.K.1]
Fine Motor Skills - Get those little muscles ready to write. [W.K.1]
Name Writing - Students learn how to write their first and last names. [W.K.1]
Penmanship - Students become familiar with printing letters and using cursive with these awesome practice sheets. [W.K.1]
Picture Sentences - These are visual writing prompts. [W.K.1, W.K.5]
Preschool Personal Experience Writing - Writing about your life will give you a lot to talk about. [W.K.1, W.K.5]
Kindergarten Informative and Explanatory Writing - We use a combination of different mediums here. [W.K.2]
Explaining Events With Writing - We work on sequencing and help students get organized for writing. [W.K.3]
Kindergarten Peer Review Writing - It takes a village to write a novel. [W.K.5]
Kindergarten Creative Writing Prompts - This will really start your students thinking. [W.K.5]
Writing With Computers Activity - You obviously need access to a computer to complete these worksheets. [W.K.6]
Shared Research and Writing Project - Work in a team to learn about new and exciting things. [W.K.7]
Recalling Information - Tell us what you learned in your experience. [W.K.8]
Personal Hygiene Vocabulary - How do we stay clean and healthy? [W.K.8]
Extras
Connect the Dots - While this may be seen as a math activity, we take it in whole different direction to help students become familiar with sequence and the alphabet. [K.CC.A.1]
Fire Safety - Not your typical stop, drop, and roll.
Five Senses - Kindergarten biology at its best! We explore the five human senses.
Getting to Know You - Great for the first day of school.
Kindness - Being kind is something you want to reinforce. It helps reinforce the concept of sharing.
Positional Words - We look at how to describe where that thing is in relation to that other thing. [K.G.A.1]
Recognizing Signs and Symbols - This goes far beyond general letter and numbers.
Self Esteem - Something often overlooked, but critical to a healthy life. The younger they start realizing it, the better.
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