Reading Eggs Reading Activity Sheets
Reading Eggs Reading Activity Sheets
Reading Eggs Reading Activity Sheets
m d b
Challenge words
6. Copy each challenge word.
polishes finishes
vanishes switches
touches attaches
launches measures
teaches guesses
7. Silly sentences. Use as many challenge words as possible to make a silly story.
w s a s
3. Sort it.
ar or
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
morning worth
corner wharf
normal towards
world worship
worse remark
6. Words within words. Make six words using letters from towards.
7. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
I have breakfast in the morning moorning .
We saw boats dock at the wherf wharf .
We bought ice-cream at the corner cerner shop.
They ran towards toowards the finish line.
Word endings – y, ey
1. Copy each list word.
any worry empty
many sixty trolley
ugly honey ninety
key busy hockey
money twenty seventy
donkey turkey pretty
valley fairy
t m t k
Word endings – y, ey
5. Alphabet. Put these list words into alphabetical order.
fairy any ugly donkey empty
Challenge words
6. Copy each challenge word.
parsley library
family chimney
country every
jersey January
journey February
2. Sort it.
str spr
scr
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
strange strength
stroll struggle
scribble screech
scramble strict
sprinkle sprout
6. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
Our new principal is very strect strict .
We took a stroll strolle through the gardens.
I saw the car screech screach to a stop.
I used my umbrella when it started to sprinkle sprenkle .
7. Silly sentences. Use as many challenge words as possible to make a silly story.
Diagraph – qu
1. Copy each list word.
queen quill quake
quiz quilt squint
quack quote query
quit equal quiver
quite equip squeak
quest quail squirrel
quiet quaint
2. Rhyming words.
shake, make, scene, bean,
shiver, liver, wrote, float,
chest, best, whizz, fizz,
q q s
Diagraph – qu
5. Missing letters. Write the missing letters.
qua it eq i
q es qu t qu i t
Challenge words
6. Copy each challenge word.
queasy sequin
squelch require
qualify quench
quarrel question
frequent squabble
7. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
I felt queasy qweasy after eating too many lollies.
I drank water to qwench quench my thirst.
I raised my hand to ask her a question qwestion .
I felt the snail sqwelch squelch under my shoe.
Suffixes – ing, ed
1. Copy each list word.
saving chased teased
closed agreed shaped
hiking giving writing
freed sharing gazing
posing changed solved
used phoned exploded
raced wasting
2. Sort it.
ed
ing
Suffixes – ing, ed
4. Correct it. Write the word that is wrong correctly.
The dog chaased the cat around the garden.
The balloon explooded in her face.
He finally sollved the puzzle.
I agred to help set up the cake stall.
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
arriving created
argued freezing
chuckling survived
caused completed
shining compared
6. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
The weather was freezing frezing outside.
My brother and I creeated created a secret language.
We will be ariving arriving late because of traffic.
You will get your medal when you have completed
coompleted the race.
7. Silly sentences. Use as many challenge words as possible to make a silly story.
Prefix – un
1. Copy each list word.
undo unmade unhappy
undid unfair undone
untie unlike unroll
unwise unstuck unable
unsafe untrue unwind
unfit untidy unload
unkind unlock
2. Opposites.
stuck unstuck happy
roll able
kind made
wind true
4. Addition words.
un + true =
un + fold =
un + happy =
Prefix – un
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
unlucky unwrap
unknown uneven
unbuckle unhelpful
unusual unhealthy
untangle unfriendly
6. Words within words. Make six words using the letters in unfriendly.
7. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
Some people think that black cats are unlucky unluky .
I will unwrappe unwrap my birthday presents.
The unfriendly unfrendly boy does not have friends.
I helped my sister unbuckel unbuckle her seatbelt.
t i f h
short oo long oo
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
soothe poodle
scooter boomerang
rooster kangaroo
school snooze
goodbye cocoon
Soft c
1. Copy each list word.
race trace since
ice once price
cell slice space
city twice grace
mice cycle spicy
face
icy
lace
nice
pace
r f c m
Soft c
4. Word shapes. Match these list words to their word shapes.
cell spicy space race city
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
fleece prince
peace recite
juicy pencil
fancy notice
piece excite
f b c
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
enemies injuries
qualities multiplies
properties supplies
difficulties factories
memories libraries
6. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
The soccer players had many injuries injurys after the game.
The j sound
1. Copy each list word.
gem germ jewel
jar giant adjust
jog join Japan
jug June magic
joke July energy
jump angel January
jelly giraffe
j j g a
3. Sort.
g
j
The j sound
4. Complete each sentence with a list word.
We like to on the trampoline.
The has a very long neck.
is the first month of the year.
I poured everyone some juice from the .
The wobbled on the plate.
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
urgent engine
agile margin
jigsaw juice
allergy digit
fragile jacket
al
a p h k
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
turtle shovel
buckle cereal
people capital
enamel hospital
double possible
6. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
Dad told us all to buckle bukle our seatbelts.
I helped shoovel shovel mulch onto the garden.
We ate cereel cereal for breakfast.
Lots of people peeple live in the city.
Consonant digraph – wh
1. Copy each list word.
war whip worm
was which whale
wipe witch wheat
went white wheel
when where watch
what world while
wash wall
3. The letter thief has left his bag behind! Put back the letters he stole.
wo
wh
w ere
wh
rld at
wi
wh ll
ipe eel
wa
tch nt
we
Consonant digraph – wh
w w w w
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
whistle welcome
wagon whether
whisk weather
waste wardrobe
whisker wheeze
7. Words within words. Make six new words with the letters in wardrobe.
u 60 minutes
d a young person
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
because would
behind should
steak whole
beautiful improve
clothes everybody
7. Silly sentences. Use as many challenge words as possible to make a silly story.
Plurals – s, ves
1. Copy each list word.
lives elves loaves
puffs waves gloves
safes stoves giraffes
wives leaves cafes
reefs sleeves scarves
cliffs olives shelves
hives wolves
2. More than one. Write the singular and plural for each word.
Plurals – s, ves
4. Sort it.
words with ves words with s
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
knives calves
halves grooves
sheaves selves
thieves flagstaffs
nerves detectives
7. Silly sentences. Use as many challenge words as possible to make a silly story.
2. Name.
s f s s
f grown on plants
r e a dried plum
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
bruise should
bluish through
cruise canoe
would cashew
could gruesome
6. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
I could cowld not stop listening to her new song.
I screamed as my brother capsized our canoo canoe .
I had a groosome gruesome scrape on my knee.
The train sped throo through the tunnel.
2. Sort.
less
ful
Challenge words
4. Copy each challenge word.
beautiful merciful
wonderful plentiful
colourless houseful
delightful peaceful
faithful disgraceful
6. Silly sentences. Use as many challenge words as possible to make a silly story.
2. Name.
kn
kn
gn wr
r t
k l
g s
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
written wrestle
wreckage knight
knuckle known
wrinkle gnaw
wriggle knead
7. Silly sentences. Use as many challenge words as possible to make a silly story.
2. Sort it.
er
est
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
higher straighter
bluer quietest
narrowest younger
gentler looser
brightest fiercer
6. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
I am yunger younger than my brother.
The sun is britest brightest at midday.
Her hair is a lot straighter streighter than my hair.
The fiercer fierser warrior won the battle.
The bird was higher heigher than the trees.
7. Silly sentences. Use as many challenge words as possible to make a silly story.
Homophones
1. Copy each list word.
sale steal sight
sail flee site
meet flea toe
meat hole tow
plane whole rain
plain pray rein
steel prey
meet steel
meat steal
3. Missing word.
The landed safely at the airport.
The mole dug a deep in the dirt.
We watched the boats past the harbour.
I bought a box of old toys at the garage .
My brother tried to my new slinky.
Homophones
4. Word clues. Which word matches?
a tiny jumping insect with no wings
leather straps attached to a horse’s bridle
a hard strong metal
to run away or escape
an animal that is hunted by another
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
wear haul
where rays
hire raise
higher morning
hall mourning
6. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
I eat breakfast in the morning mourning .
We enjoyed the warmth of the sun’s raise rays .
We climbed higher hire up the tree.
They have school assemblies in the big haul hall .
I didn’t know where wear my sister was hiding.
7. Silly sentences. Use as many challenge words as possible to make a silly story.
Suffixes – ing, ed
1. Copy each list word.
rubbed rammed grabbed
jogging bobbing stopped
jogged tipped trapping
wagging thinned blotted
sagged planned skinned
sipped stabbed flopped
stopping gripping
2. Sort.
ing ed
Suffixes – ing, ed
Challenge words
4. Copy each challenge word.
prodding shrugged
stunned scrubbing
scanning squatted
shipped
knitting
throbbed
strapping
5. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
We shiped shipped the package across the country.
Grandma is knitting kniting a big woolly jumper.
My knee throbbed throbed with pain after I fell over.
I was stuned stunned when my raffle ticket
was chosen.
She squatted squated down beside me to take
a closer look.
The k sound – k, ck
1. Copy each list word.
beak luck mask
bank dusk stick
lock peck shack
tank track stock
rock pluck speak
pink cheek trunk
tick check
2. Name.
b r m t
3. Sort it.
ck k
The k sound – k, ck
4. Word clues. Which list word matches?
a place you put your money
the colour of a flamingo
the time of day just before night
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
soak stork
cloak struck
thank attack
crook paddock
streak chipmunk
Suffixes – ly
1. Copy each list word.
badly mainly largely
slowly softly swiftly
nicely clearly gently
suddenly quickly firmly
mostly happily quietly
strongly easily fairly
shyly calmly
bad badly
quick
strong
most
nice
Suffixes – ly
4. Write the list words in alphabetical order.
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
extremely completely
actually differently
finally surely
slightly absolutely
normally equally
6. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
Mum shared the food eqwually equally between us.
I finaly finally finished typing up my assignment.
We went in completly completely different directions.
I am slightly sleightly taller than my dad.
7. Silly sentences. Use as many challenge words as possible to make a silly story.
2. Name.
t s d s
Challenge words
6. Copy each challenge word.
answer October
feather November
deliver cellar
lawyer alligator
September caterpillar
8. Silly sentences. Use as many list words as possible to make a silly story.
Word endings – ge
1. Copy each list word.
age hedge strange
edge fudge change
huge wedge fringe
village bridge smudge
badge image garage
large orange plunge
judge charge
b o b
h j
Word endings – ge
4. Unscramble it. Unscramble the letters to make a list word.
ungple ngecha
ingefr agevill
rgecha raggae
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
bulge partridge
cottage sausage
package damage
passage manage
cringe courage
7. Choose it. Circle the correct challenge word to complete the sentence.
We apologised for the damage damge we did to the garden.
We could see a light at the end of the dark pasage passage .
I drove down to the post office to collect my package pakage .
I always cringe crenge at the sound of nails on the chalkboard.
Compound words
1. Copy each list word.
armpit windmill eyebrow
pancake raincoat handshake
freeway snowman rainfall
starfish backpack leftovers
shoelace grandchild teardrop
anybody hairbrush strawberry
uphill driveway
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Compound words
4. Underline the spelling mistakes. Write the word correctly.
Strawbery is my favourite flavour of ice-cream.
In winter we like to go outside and build a snoman.
On rainy days I pack my umbrella and raincote.
I packed my books and pencil case into my bakpack.
I couldn’t find my harebrush so I had to use my comb.
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
outdoors background
marketplace doughnut
elsewhere clockwork
downstairs earphone
watermelon cheeseburger
Contractions
1. Copy each list word.
I’m we’ll hasn’t
he’s don’t where’s
it’s she’ll what’s
I’ve it’d you’d
how’s who’s can’t
there’s it’ll didn’t
won’t who’ll
where is hasn’t
I have where’s
how is I’ve
Contractions
4. Missing apostrophe. Rewrite the word with the apostrophe in the correct place.
itll wont well youd
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
wasn’t haven’t
they’ve doesn’t
you’re o’clock
mustn’t couldn’t
weren’t would’ve
7. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
I wasn’t wan’st sure which direction we should
take.
You musun’t mustn’t make a sound
or you’ll wake the baby.
I couldn’t could’t go to soccer practice because
my boots were broken.
School starts promptly at nine o’clock
oclock .
2. More than one. Write the singular and plural for each word.
Challenge words
4. Copy each challenge word.
fingers branches
flowers quizzes
monkeys oranges
catches giraffes
watches cabbages
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
built caught
brought dealt
taught heard
struck meant
shrank understood
6. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
I bring brought chocolate fudge brownies to the
class party.
I taught teach my little sister how to count to five.
7. Silly sentences. Use as many challenge words as possible to make a silly story.
s p b n
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
scrape lemonade
while microwave
shave crocodile
tadpole
gnome
whale
guide
2. Sort.
ee ea
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
compete lorikeet
delete retreat
defeat complete
overeat concrete
athlete heartbeat
7. Choose it. Circle the correct challenge word to complete the sentence.
I decided not to compete compet in this year’s fun run.
I ran a complet complete circuit of the sports field.
The doctor used a stethoscope to listen to my heartbeat hertbeat .
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
cascade persuade
braid repaid
unafraid marmalade
grenade
mermaid
lemonade
bridesmaid
6. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
I plaited her long hair into a braid breid .
Tim spread marmelade marmalade on his toast.
My sister will be a bridesmeid bridesmaid at our cousin’s
wedding.
I poured everyone a cool glass of lemonaid lemonade .
7. Silly sentences. Use as many challenge words as possible to make a silly story.
Word building
1. Copy each list word.
law fright
lawful frighten
unlawful frightened
try happily
trying happiness
tried happiest
watch begin
watching beginning
watched beginner
watchful began
Word building
4. Unscramble it. Unscramble the letters to make a list word.
chedwat
inesshapp
innerbeg
chfulwat
inningbeg
Challenge words
5. Copy each challenge word.
garden decision
gardening friend
gardener friendly
decide friendliness
deciding unfriendly
7. Silly sentences. Use as many challenge words as possible to make a silly story.
2. Sort.
er est
Challenge words
4. Copy each challenge word.
thinnest happiest
scariest healthier
fluffier healthiest
curliest angrier
happier angriest
6. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct word to complete the sentence.
Muesli was the healthiest healthyest option at
the breakfast buffet.
She made me watch the scarist scariest movie!
I snapped the thinnest thinest branch.
Tricky words
1. Copy each list word.
I with pretty
again there who
always off mother
next here father
have around outside
were wanted when
things school
Tricky words
5. Correct it. Write the word that is wrong correctly.
Ie am seven years old.
Mum told us to play outsde in the garden.
I wantid a new computer, but I got a book instead.
I went to the zoo weth my grandma and grandpa.
I got it wrong, so had to start all over agein.
Challenge words
6. Copy each challenge word.
every Christmas
once people
happening swimming
scared women
favourite February
8. Silly sentences. Use as many challenge words as possible to make a silly story.
Challenge words
4. Copy each challenge word.
argument punishment
excitement astonishment
gentleness equipment
willingness tiredness
entertainment enchantment
7. Choose it. Circle and rewrite the correct challenge word to complete the sentence.
It was her willingness wilngess to learn that
made her a good student.
We stared in astonesment astonishment at
our teacher’s strange hat.
They hired a clown as entertainment
enterteinmnt for the party.