Reading Two-Syllable Words

Year 1 EnglishPhonics4 pages

About this worksheet

Three parts on reading longer words in Year 1. First, pupils split ten words such as picnic, napkin, thunder and kitten with a line, following the worked example rab | bit. Next they join a syllable from Column A to one in Column B to build six words, including helmet, carrot, bucket and finish. In Part 3 they write football, sandpit, starfish, rainbow, moonlight and snowman under six pictures, then read one sentence about a kitten and a muffin. The answer page gives every split and every built word. It follows the England National Curriculum for Year 1 word reading.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Reading - word reading

โ€œRead other words of more than one syllable that contain taught GPCsโ€

Part 1 splits ten two-syllable words, and Part 3 reads six compound words made of two short words.

Reading - word reading

โ€œApply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode wordsโ€

Pupils sound out each half of words like sun | set and gar | den before they blend the whole word.

What's inside this worksheet

Split and Read

Ten words with the letters spaced out, from picnic and sunset to garden and kitten, for pupils to split with a line and blend.

Build a Word

A syllable table with hel, car, buc and fin in Column A and met, rot, ket and ish in Column B, plus six lines for the finished words.

Compound Words

A word bank of six compound words and six pictures, such as a snowman and a moon over the sea, to write them under.

Read the Sentence

The kitten had a muffin on the carpet in the garden, which uses four words from Part 1.

Answers

Splits such as nap | kin and thun | der, the words built in Part 2 and the six compound words.

How teachers use it

Clap it first

Clap picnic and thunder together before pupils draw their lines. The claps show them where the split goes.

Syllable card game

Cut out the Column A and Column B syllables and let pairs race to build helmet, carrot and bucket.

Fluency check

Hear each pupil read the Part 3 sentence. It uses kitten, muffin, carpet and garden, so it shows whether Part 1 has stuck.

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