Worksheet Creator provides free premade lists of spelling and phonics words
At a glance
- >420 free, premade lists of spelling words 🎉
- >5,200 total English words 💯
- In 20 categories 🗄️
- Including full 30-36 week spelling lists for grades K-2 📚
Spelling instruction and phonics instruction are critical for student development. The research is clear, and increasingly convincing, that students who learn to spell well are more successful in writing, reading, and spelling.
Every spelling and phonics system still requires customization
Regardless of the spelling system you choose, you still need to customize the worksheets to your needs, for various reasons:
- Classrooms will often have multiple groups.
- Groups of students will be more advanced than others.
- Specific students may require intervention for specific spelling rules.
Finding words that fit the specific lesson is frustrating
Every K-12, ELA, special education, and ESL teacher has had the experience of searching for words that fit the specific lesson and grade level.
This frequently requires you to search through Teachers Pay Teachers, Google, ChatGPT, or your specific spelling system's texts. Often at night or on the weekend, when you have limited time.
And, worse, once you've found the list of words you want to use to reinforce the lesson, you then have to spend time formatting them into worksheets.
Who has time for that?
Worksheet Creator saves you time
Worksheet Creator provides free, premade lists of words, and a system to build free custom worksheets from those lists, for your students.
How does it work?
1. Pick a template.
See the list of available templates here.
2. Then pick a premade list category, from one of these choices:
3. Then pick a sub-category:
4. If the words contain some or all of what you are looking for, tap the "Add them" button to add them to your worksheet.
Don't worry, you can edit or remove the ones you don't want later.
5. Edit and remove the ones you don't want in the list:
6. Create the worksheet, and you are done!
Word categories and lists
Here are the categories and lists of words that you can use in your classroom.
- Closed Syllables 1: Short Vowels. a = /ă/
- Closed Syllables 1: Short Vowels. i = /ɪ/
- Closed Syllables 1: Short Vowels. u = /ʌ/
- Closed Syllables 1: Short Vowels. e = /ɛ/
- Closed Syllables 1: Short Vowels. o = /ɑ/
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. sl
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. st
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. sp
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. sn
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. sc
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. sw
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. sk
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. sm
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. br
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. cr
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. dr
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. fr
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. pr
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. tr
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. gr
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. scr
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. spr
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. str
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. cl
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. fl
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. pl
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. bl
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. gl
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. spl
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. tw
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. Sight Words
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. st (at end)
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. sk, sp (at end)
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. nd (at end)
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. nt (at end)
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. lt (at end)
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. lk, lf, ld, lp, lm, lb, lc (at end)
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. mp (at end)
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. ct, ft, pt (at end)
- Closed Syllables 1: Consonant Blends. (front and end)
- Closed Syllables 2: Sight Words
- Closed Syllables 2: Consonant Digraphs. sh
- Closed Syllables 2: Consonant Digraphs. ch
- Closed Syllables 2: Consonant Trigraphs tch
- Closed Syllables 2: Consonant Digraphs. th (unvoiced)
- Closed Syllables 2: Consonant Digraphs. wh
- Closed Syllables 2: Consonant Digraphs. ck
- Closed Syllables 2: Double Consonants. ff
- Closed Syllables 2: Double Consonants. ss
- Closed Syllables 2: Double Consonants. ll
- Closed Syllables 2: Double Consonants. bb, gg, dd, nn, tt, zz
- Closed Syllables 2: Double Consonants. qu
- Closed Syllables 2: Double Consonants. x
- Closed Syllables 2: ng and nk Patterns. ing
- Closed Syllables 2: ng and nk Patterns. ang
- Closed Syllables 2: ng and nk Patterns. eng
- Closed Syllables 2: ng and nk Patterns. ong
- Closed Syllables 2: ng and nk Patterns. ung
- Closed Syllables 2: ng and nk Patterns. ink
- Closed Syllables 2: ng and nk Patterns. ank
- Closed Syllables 2: ng and nk Patterns. unk
- Closed Syllables 2: ng and nk Patterns. onk
- Vowel Team Syllables: Sight Words
- Vowel Team Syllables: ee = /e/
- Vowel Team Syllables: ea = /e/
- Vowel Team Syllables: oo (soon)
- Vowel Team Syllables: ai = /e/
- Vowel Team Syllables: air
- Vowel Team Syllables: ay = /e/
- Vowel Team Syllables: oa = /o/
- Vowel Team Syllables: ou (out)
- Vowel Team Syllables: ow (cow)
- Vowel Team Syllables: aw (law)
- Vowel Team Syllables: au (haul)
- Vowel Team Syllables: oy (boy)
- Vowel Team Syllables: oi (oil)
- Endings: Sight Words
- Endings: Silent e at end (mouse)
- Endings: th = voiced (then)
- Endings: s = /z/
- Endings: s = /s/
- Endings: es = /ɪz/
- Endings: ed = /d/
- Endings: ed = /t/
- Endings: Double consonant + ed
- Endings: ing
- Endings: Double consonant + ing
- Endings: ful
- Endings: apostrophe
- Endings: n't contraction
- Multisyllable: Compound words
- Multisyllable: Multisyllable
- Multisyllable: a = /ʌ/
- Multisyllable: al = /ʊl/
- Multisyllable: er at end
- Multisyllable: Consonant + le syllable at end
- Multisyllable: le syllable at end
- Multisyllable: tle = /l/ at end
- Multisyllable: y = /i/ at end
- Multisyllable: Sight Words
- Multisyllable: Sight Words in words
- Soft C and G: c = /s/ followed by e
- Soft C and G: c = /s/ followed by i or y
- Soft C and G: g = /j/ followed by e
- Soft C and G: age = /ɪdʒ/
- Soft C and G: dge = /dʒ/ at end
- Soft C and G: g = /j/ followed by i or y
- Magic E Syllables: a = /e/
- Magic E Syllables: i = /aɪ/
- Magic E Syllables: o = /oʊ/
- Magic E Syllables: u = /ju/oʊ/
- Magic E Syllables: u = /u/oʊ/
- Magic E Syllables: e = /i/
- Open Syllables: Sight Words
- Open Syllables: a = /eɪ/
- Open Syllables: e = /i/
- Open Syllables: i = /aɪ/
- Open Syllables: o = /oʊ/
- Open Syllables: u = /ju/oʊ/
- Open Syllables: u = /u/oʊ/
- Open Syllables: Split vowel pairs
- Open Syllables: Split vowels i = /i/
- More Long Vowels: ie = /i/
- More Long Vowels: ei = /i/
- More Long Vowels: ey = /eɪ/
- More Long Vowels: y = /aɪ/
- More Long Vowels: ie = /aɪ/
- More Long Vowels: igh = /aɪ/
- More Long Vowels: ind
- More Long Vowels: oe = /oʊ/
- More Long Vowels: ow = /oʊ/
- More Long Vowels: ou = /oʊ/
- More Long Vowels: old
- More Long Vowels: oll
- More Long Vowels: ol
- More Long Vowels: ue = /u/oʊ/
- More Long Vowels: ue = /ju/oʊ/
- More Long Vowels: ew = /u/oʊ/
- More Long Vowels: ew = /ju/oʊ/
- More Long Vowels: ui = /u/oʊ/
- More Long Vowels: ou = /u/oʊ/
- More Long Vowels: eigh = /eɪ/
- More Long Vowels: ei = /eɪ/
- R-Controlled Syllables: ar
- R-Controlled Syllables: er
- R-Controlled Syllables: ir
- R-Controlled Syllables: or
- R-Controlled Syllables: ur
- R-Controlled Syllables: ear = /ər/
- R-Controlled Syllables: wor = /wər/
- R-Controlled Syllables: war
- R-Controlled Syllables: quar
- More Short Vowels: all = /ɔl/
- More Short Vowels: al = /ɔl/
- More Short Vowels: alk = /ɔk/
- More Short Vowels: a = /ɑ/
- More Short Vowels: oo = short
- More Short Vowels: u = short oo
- More Short Vowels: ea = /ɛ/
- More Short Vowels: ear = /ɛr/
- More Short Vowels: y = /ɪ/
- More Short Vowels: ous = /əs/
- More Short Vowels: ou = /ʌ/
- More Short Vowels: our = /ər/
- More Short Vowels: o = /ʌ/
- Silent Letters and Advanced: Sight Words
- Silent Letters and Advanced: sc = /s/
- Silent Letters and Advanced: wr = /r/
- Silent Letters and Advanced: kn = /n/
- Silent Letters and Advanced: gn = /n/
- Silent Letters and Advanced: ign
- Silent Letters and Advanced: gh = silent
- Silent Letters and Advanced: ought = /ɔt/
- Silent Letters and Advanced: Miscellaneous silent letters
- Silent Letters and Advanced: ch = /k/
- Silent Letters and Advanced: ph = /f/
- Silent Letters and Advanced: tion = /ʃən/
- Silent Letters and Advanced: sion = /ʃən/
- Silent Letters and Advanced: sion = /ʒən/
- Silent Letters and Advanced: ci = /ʃ/
- Silent Letters and Advanced: ti = /ʃ/
- Silent Letters and Advanced: ture = /tʃər/
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