Reading Worksheets

Welcome to A-Z Worksheets where reading worksheets are easy to print and easy to use! Choose our printable worksheets at which ever level you like. They are free and you can choose as high a level as you like. All of our Reading worksheets are free and based on good literature.

One of the most important features of good reading instruction is to find interesting reading material at a level that your readers can enjoy or appreciate. We offer you this giant bundle of reading worksheets that have different variations on the worksheets theme. See the bulleted description below:

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A Child's Garden of Verses is a wonderful way to teach your student beautiful handwriting and beautiful poems! A Child's Garden of Verses written by Robert Louis Stevenson is a beautiful collection of children's poems. He wrote many of them when he was still just a boy!

We have taken these poems and put them to four levels for you to choose which is best for your child:

Level One: has the poem written out with a place for the student to draw a picture.
Level Two: has the poem written out on lined paper in manuscript with a blank line for the child to copy.
Level Three: is similar to Level Two but in beautiful cursive.
Level Four: has the poem written on one side and plain lines to coppy the poem on the other side.

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Reading Worksheets!

Teaching reading can be so rewarding even if the effort is exhausting at times! A bright child can learn the basic phonics sounds in two or three months and begin to get better during the very first week.

Teaching phonics is the keystone to future reading comprehension success or rescuing a student that has had difficulty. Even slower students who know the phonics sounds and the phonics rules begin to advance quickly once reading clicks.

Once any student has the basic reading comprehension skills he is free to read, and thereby, to learn almost anything!

Most students still need phonics lessons and review throughout the elementary education years so as to practice the phonics rules for bigger words with prefixes and suffixes. The prefixes and suffixes are what expand reading comprehension at any age. Then? Practice makes perfect!

Common sense practice is the order of the day at A-Z Worksheets!

We find that when a student copies his work in a logical manner and says the sounds out loud he has an easy time using elementary reading worksheets. Writing the material, or copying it, ensures that your student has reviewed it and can then read it better.

The more a student reviews a passage, the more he can comprehend its meaning. It is one thing to hand a child what amounts to a quiz, it is entirely another to hand him a tool by which he can actively improve his skills with little one on one instruction! Take the quiz later!

We find that one of the best reading activities is, of course, to read. After that is it good to have the student copy his work in a logical manner and say the phonics sounds of any difficult words out loud to improve his reading and writing skills. Writing the material, or copying it, ensures that your student has reviewed it and can then read it better.

If a student reviews a passage several times in several ways he can more easily comprehend its meaning. For older students Reading comprehension can be improved by reading a good selection alone in a quiet place and reading only difficult phrases out loud as needed for comprehension. We believe that once a student has worked through several complicated books well, that he is able then to read anything after that.

It is one thing to hand a child a worksheet that amounts to a quiz, yet it is an entirely different thing to hand him our practice reading worksheets that have the correct spelling to copy. Copy work is a reading activity by which a student can actively improve his skills by his own efforts.

Even handwriting practice helps reading comprehension since the student must pay attention to every character in the words read. Take the quiz later, after the basics are learned! Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote from a book to a slate and college students take notes all day long. Writing does aid reading and memory.

After a student can read at a third or fourth grade level the main difference in books between the elementary grades is the length of the book and maturity of content. High school books are longer, have fewer pictures, and cover more complicated material. Choose books that meet your students reading ability and general ability to sit through a long study.

A-Z Worksheets are handmade for real children. We use these reading worksheets with our own students and hope that our own grandchildren will also learn the material they teach! We are continually adding new materials. There are no fees, no worksheet generators, or registrations necessary to print our free Math worksheets or any of our free printable worksheets. See our growing list of free printable Reading Worksheets below and use our left navigation bar to see thousands of free printable worksheets and elementary worksheets.

We are happy to recommend The Phonics Road by Barbara Beers, Romalda Spalding's The Writing Road To Reading, Sound Beginnings by Julia Fogassy, Riggs (the first 26 phonics flash cards have ruled lines!), Saxon Phonics, and Yes! Phonics DVD phonics flash cards as the best reading lesson plans for elementary education with reading activities and many a phonics activity that aim at teaching the phonics sounds and the phonics rules. These companies all have a flavor of teaching phonics explicitly, not making the child guess or hope to take a photographic memory of a billion words!

Learning Disabilities Reading Tutor

We'd like to recommend a dear lady who loves to help students! She's so bright and inviting that everything she does is fun! Rene is a Learning Disabilities Reading Tutor who offers a site that is not just for parents teaching their LD child, but for ANYONE who has a child struggling with reading and will benefit from a 20+ year reading specialist. What is so rare is that she offers LIVE one-on-one Virtual Tutoring also and really teaches the basics like phonics as she starts if your student has not mastered that aspect of reading. We'd like you to see Rene's heartwarming reading success stories especially if you're from the Topeka, Kansas area!

We'd like to recomend a nice idea here, too:

Short Story Time

Listen To Stories Read Online: This darling homeschooling family reads Classics, Poetry, Bible Stories and more. Get lost in a story and build character traits as well as a lifelong love of reading! Listening to good literature helps a student get a feel for good grammar for reading and writing.

Say it! Write it! Repeat It!

Be encouraged to choose which ever level you desire. Do not fear choosing the wrong level, especially if it seems like a high level.

Why?

Mr. John Gatto, one time New York City and New York State Teacher of the Year and accomplished author, once said that old timers had had their students work through one hard book. Guess what? Ever after that the student could read anything! Mastery learning has its merits especially with math, typing and music; yet once a student learns the phonics sounds and the phonics rules there is no boundary necessary in teaching reading comprehension! Weve seen this sort of success in many students!

Teaching phonics lessons to young students is much easier when there is an example of the words before the student with the correct spelling on practice phonics worksheets. We offer the right spelling for elementary Reading Worksheets and copying the right spelling on elementary reading worksheets for higher levels. Every one of these can serve as handwriting practice worksheets. We also offer cursive handwriting worksheets since many elementary students have learned cursive writing.

Free Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Preschool Worksheets!

Be encouraged to try a higher level of A-Z free reading worksheets! Your student might surprise you! Also, be encouraged to check back for our Newest Worksheets and new ideas . One idea is to keep your own hard copy file so that you can form your own booklet or file folder of black line masters. Also, you might find that your student would benefit from doing the same phonics lessons over and over for practice until reading comprehension becomes easy. You can print and reprint! Practice makes perfect.

See our videos for the phonics sounds and the phonics rules.

We would also like to recommend the Reading Pen by Wizcom for older students as it voices the word it scans and has a dictionary for vocabulary skills which would enhance any reading comprehension activities especially in the sciences and history where one understands how to say an unfamiliar word better when he hears it spoken.

We also find and recommend many great elementary education reading resources which decorate our pages for your convenience.

Reading Worksheets by Grade

For Reading Worksheets by grade just click on the pictures below!

Preschool Worksheets	Kindergarten Worksheets	First Grade Worksheets
2nd Grade Worksheets	3rd Grade Worksheets	Fourth Grade Worksheets
5th Grade Worksheets	6th Grade Worksheets	Birthday Party Ideas!

Reading Worksheets

A Dillar a Dollar	Baa Baa Black Sheep	Diddle Diddle Dumpling
Hey Diddle Diddle	Hickory Dickory Dock	Hot Cross Buns
Humpty Dumpty	Jack and Jill	Jack be Nimble
Jack Sprat	Little Miss Muppet	London Bridge
This Little Pig	The Pledge of Allegiance	The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics

Phonics Worksheets

Teaching phonics to young students is much easier when there is an example of the words before the student with the correct spelling. Teaching phonics also requires the correct spelling! We offer tracing the right spelling for early childhood learning and copying the right spelling on elementary reading worksheets for higher levels. Again, be encouraged to try a higher level! You might surprise your student! Also, be encouraged to check back for new worksheets and new ideas. One idea is to keep your own hard copy file so that you can form your own booklet. Also, you might find that your student would benefit from doing the same lesson until it becomes easy. You can print and reprint! Practice makes perfect.

Phonics lessons are fun when they are taught in a logical order and offer easy initial success. It is important when teaching phonics to say the sounds out loud and have the student do the same.

Need Phonics flash cards and worksheets? Visit our free printable Phonics worksheets that offer space to copy practice words three times each.