Pre-K · Reading & Writing
Clap the Syllables
Free printable Pre-K reading & writing worksheet: Clap the Syllables. It practices phonological awareness. For ages 3-5. Download the PDF, print it, or fill it in online.
Fill in or color online- Grade
- Pre-K
- Subject
- Reading & Writing
- Skill
- Phonological awareness
- Ages
- 3–5
- Format
- A4 PDF · print or fill in online
About this worksheet
“Clap the Syllables” is sheet 19 of 30 in our free Pre-K Reading & Writing Worksheets collection, written for children aged 3–5. It focuses on phonological awareness, one of four sheets in the set on that skill.
In the set it comes after “Same Beginning Sound” and before “Follow the Path”. Working through them in that order, one sheet a day, builds the skill a step at a time.
More phonological awareness worksheets
The other Pre-K Reading & Writing sheets on phonological awareness, in the order they are meant to be done.
How to use this worksheet
- 1
Say the letter sound, not the letter name, when you work through the alphabet sheets. "Mmm" transfers to reading; "em" does not, and children taught names first often have to unlearn them.
- 2
Do "Rhyming Pictures" out loud with the page turned away first. Rhyme is a listening skill — if the child is looking at the pictures they will match by category instead of by sound.
- 3
Save "Get Ready to Write" for whenever handwriting looks effortful. The stroke shapes on it are the components of every lowercase letter, so time spent there pays off across all twenty-six.
- 4
Five letters at a sitting is plenty. Doing the whole alphabet in one session is how a child decides letters are a chore.
