Free Online Reading Games and Worksheets

Our compilation of Free Online Phonics Games available on the Internet. Play word games that teach, build or strengthen your word skills and concepts while having fun. We categorize and review the games listed here to help you find the games you are looking for.



We have phonics games, vowel games, consonant games, making sentences and reading games.

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Phonics Games

Learning Sounds or Phonemes

Phoneme Pop Match the sound with the letter by popping the bubble.	Phonics Game (b to n) Match the consonant sounds.
Phonics Game (m to z) Match the consonant sounds.	Phonics Game (US) Match the vowel sounds.
Phonics Game (UK) Match the vowel sounds.	Dinosaur's High Frequency Words Choose which group of words you wish to practice. Listen to the word, choose the correct egg and then press 'next'. If you are right the sabre-toothed will put a scratch on the tree. When you have completed ten goes you will be able to print out a certificate including all of the words you read and thoise that you need to work on.
Fuzzy Lion Ears Listen to the sounds to complete the words	Phonics Listen to the sounds of consonants, vowels and consonant blends.
Dinosaur's Eggs Phonics Choose which group of words you wish to practice. Listen to the word, choose the correct egg and then press 'next'. If you are right the sabre-toothed will put a scratch on the tree. When you have completed ten goes you will be able to print out a certificate including all of the words you read and thoise that you need to work on.

Learning Beginning Sounds or Beginning Letters

Sound Matching with Clifford the Big Red Dog Listen and learn! Identify the beginning sounds in this interactive sound match game.	Letter Lifter Initial letter recognition. Click the start belt lever. Type in the starting sound for the things on the conveyer belt. Suitable for foundation stage students.
Picture Match A matching game that reinforces the concept of beginning-letter sounds, short-vowel sounds and long-vowel sounds.	Phonics Name Game Listen to the name and click on the letter that the name starts with.
Alphabet Match - Phonemic Awareness Alphabet Match is a fun game where children must match letter sounds to beginning word sounds. For example "A" = "Ant" Children flip cards to make a match between the letters and the words or vice-versa. All letters and words are sounded out for children as they play the game. Lots of fun.	Letter Lifter Type in the beginning letter of each word.
Letters and Pictures Click on the objects that start with each letter of the alphabet shown on the left,

Learning Vowels

Vowels and Consonants Help Rusty Rat catch the falling vowels or consonants.	Vowels with Clifford Choose the vowels to make real words.
Missing Vowel Select the missing vowel to form the word that matches the picture.

Short Vowels

Chicken Stacker Select the short vowel sound: a, e, i, o, u . Find the word with the short vowel sound and stack some chickens.	Make a Match - Short Vowel Words Match the short vowel words with the correct picture.
Vowel Sound - Short I and Sight Words Use your mouse to move the words around to make your own sentences. See how many sentences you can make about the picture.	See 'N Spell - Short Vowels Look at each picture. Click and drag the letters into the grey box to spell the word. Click on the Check Work Button to check your answer.

CVC Words

Word Wheel 1 The Word Wheel is multimedia tool for pupils to explore and develop their skill at blending phonemes in CVC words. The application consists of two wheels, one contains four onsets and the other holds four rimes.	World Wheel 2 The Word Wheel 2 is multimedia tool for pupils to explore and develop their skill at blending phonemes in words with clusters.
Ladybird Lander Identify initial, medial and final phonemes in CVC and CCVC words.	Alien Scavenger Hunt Catch the letters to form the CVC word.
Pounce Pounce on the word that matches the sound.	Flood Help save the books from the flood by selecting words that should go together.
CVC Pop Select a medial vowel and pop the your target bubbles.

R-controlled Words

R-controlled Word Sort

R-controlled vowels: Go Fish! Download a free game of Go Fish to practice those tricky r-controlled vowel words.

Vowel Digraphs

Vowel Digraphs Make a word with the vowel digraph.

Vowel Diphthongs

Diphthongs Type or click the missing (ai ee ie oa oi) sounding letters

Schwa Sound

Schwa Sound Activities Pronunciation of the schwa sound

Learning Consonants

Consonants Blends

Phonics Game (consonant blends) Match the consonant blends.	Blending Dragons Move the dragon with your mouse. Catch the real words and fly through the arch to move the wrong words on. Choose from a range of patterns.
Cluster Buster Get your pilot through the asteroid field by selecting rhe correct consonant blend.	Consonant Blends Word Search Search for words beginning with consonant blends.
Consonant Blends Learn consonant blending by selecting the correct letters.	Consonant Blends Word Games Rearrange the letters to spell words with consonant blends.

Consonant Digraphs

Beginning Consonant Digraphs Identify the digraph that begins each word (ch, sh, th, wh).

Consonant Digraphs Form the consonant digraph word.

Making Sentences

Word Magnets Phonics Reinforcement and Sentence Building Exercise. Use the phonics and sight words to make sentences. See how many sentences you can make about each picture.

Monkey Business Order the words to make a sentence

Starfall Reading Games

ABCs Let's get ready to read	Learn To Read 15 fun lessons to help you learn to read
It's Fun to Read Fun interactive stories to help you to read	I'm Reading Fun stories that you can read yourself or it can be read to you.

Try the free Mathway calculator and problem solver below to practice various math topics. Try the given examples, or type in your own problem and check your answer with the step-by-step explanations.

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