Reception English worksheets

Boost handwriting and spelling skills with this worksheet. The focus is on some of the high-frequency words your child will learn to read, spell and write in Reception and Year 1; letter formation guides and dotted line versions are provided to help them practise.

Your child will do lots of phonics learning at school – so why not use games to help them put their new skills into practice at home? Our Phonics games learning pack, created by a KS1 teacher (and parent), offers ten games and activities to choose from. Everything you need to start playing, from instructions to game boards and a sound die, is included in your download – print off your bingo counters, sharpen your pencils and have some fun!

This handy phonics letters and sounds worksheet will help you practise each phonics sound with your child by the 7 groups they'll be learning them in. How many other words can you think of that give examples of each sound?

Can you find the words in our summer holiday wordsearch?

A fun game involving matching capital letter and lower case letters.

This game actively helps your child to memorise spellings and can be adapted for their personal level.

Create your own game by colouring in the fish and then cutting them out. The game involves memorising spellings in order to collect as many fish as you can.

This game encourages children to think about the shapes of letters within words which will help them with their formation of letters and spelling.

A fun worksheet where your child can talk and write about their preferences for unusual situations.