Halloween Phonics Worksheets

Halloween is a gift for phonics — children already know the words, so all the effort goes into the sounds. This free lesson kit gives you flashcards to teach the words, a four-page worksheet to practise them, and a fold-up mini-book your child can actually read on their own. Every word is genuinely decodable, so this isn't guesswork dressed up in a costume: it's real reading practice with bats and cobwebs in it.

1Start here: teach the words

Halloween Phonics Flashcards (6 cards)

One picture card per page — teach the six words before the worksheet.

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2Practice the sounds

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Download the Halloween phonics worksheet (4 pages)

3Read it back

Halloween Phonics Mini-Book (1 sheet, fold-up)

A decodable mini-book your child folds from one printed sheet, then reads.

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New to mini-books? How to fold it →

4Everything for this lesson

Halloween Phonics Lesson Pack — the whole kit in one PDF

Flashcards, worksheet and mini-book in teaching order. One print job.

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What's inside

• Four worksheet pages in teaching order: beginning sounds → read & match → a coloring sound hunt → a roll-a-sound dice game (one die and crayons is all you need).
• Six flashcards — one card per word, picture and word together, for teaching the vocabulary before any reading starts.
• A fold-up mini-book of short decodable sentences starring the same six words — made from one printed sheet with a single cut.

The words in this pack

Six genuinely decodable Halloween words: bat, web, wig, moth, fang, moon. Three are simple CVC words, and moth (th), fang (ng) and moon (oo) add a gentle stretch for children who've met those digraphs.

Common questions

Why aren't "pumpkin" and "witch" in the worksheets?

They're in the pictures, but never as words your child has to read. A beginning reader can't decode pumpkin — it would just be guessing from the picture, which is the opposite of reading. The words we ask children to read (bat, web, wig, moth, fang, moon) are all fully sound-it-out-able. The spooky stuff still gets to be there; it just doesn't get in the way.

What age is this for?

Kindergarten and early Grade 1, roughly ages 4–6. Children who know most letter sounds will manage the worksheet; the mini-book suits those who've started blending. Younger children can do the coloring pages alongside a grown-up reading the words.

Can I use this in a classroom?

Yes — it's free, printable and designed for it. There's no cutting except the mini-book's single fold-and-cut, and the dice game needs only one die and crayons.

How long does the whole kit take?

Plan for three short sessions rather than one long one: flashcards (5 minutes), worksheet pages (10–15 minutes each), then the mini-book as the reward at the end.