Kindergarten · Phonics
Sound Boxes
Free printable Kindergarten phonics worksheet: Sound Boxes. It practices segmenting sounds (Common Core RF.K.2d). For ages 5-6. Download the PDF, print it, or fill it in online.
Fill in or color online- Grade
- Kindergarten
- Subject
- Phonics
- Skill
- Segmenting sounds
- Ages
- 5–6
- Standard
- RF.K.2d
- Format
- A4 PDF · print or fill in online
About this worksheet
“Sound Boxes” is sheet 16 of 23 in our free Kindergarten Phonics Worksheets collection, written for children aged 5–6. It focuses on segmenting sounds.
In the set it comes after “Short u Words” and before “Ending Sounds: t, g or n?”. Working through them in that order, one sheet a day, builds the skill a step at a time.
What this worksheet practices
RF.K.2d · Common Core English Language Arts · Kindergarten
Reading: Foundational Skills · Phonological awareness
Children work on hearing and playing with the sounds in spoken words — rhymes, syllables and individual sounds.
How to use this worksheet
- 1
Stretch the word slowly — "c-a-a-a-t" — so the vowel is easy to hear.
- 2
Play "I spy" with rhymes after the rhyming sheet: "I spy something that rhymes with bed".
- 3
Read each traced sentence aloud together, pointing to each word.
