Thanksgiving Phonics Worksheets

Thanksgiving vocabulary is mostly unreadable for a beginner — which is exactly why this kit is built around what's on the table rather than the holiday's name. Yam, ham, nut, corn: short, decodable, and all things a child can point at. Flashcards to teach them, a four-page worksheet to practise, and a fold-up mini-book to read back.

1Start here: teach the words

Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving phonics worksheet (4 pages)

3Read it back

Thanksgiving 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

Thanksgiving 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 about the feast on the table — made from one printed sheet with a single cut.

The words in this pack

Six genuinely decodable Thanksgiving words: yam, ham, nut, corn, dish, feast. Three simple CVC words, plus dish (sh), corn (or) and feast (ea) as gentle stretches for children who are ready.

Common questions

Where's the turkey?

In the pictures, on the table, being coloured in — but not in the reading. Turkey has a tricky vowel sound that a beginning reader can't decode, so putting it on the page as a word to read would only teach guessing. The words we ask for (yam, ham, nut, corn, dish, feast) are all sound-it-out-able.

What if my child doesn't know what a yam is?

Show them the flashcard first — that's exactly what the flashcards are for. Teach the picture and the word together, then the worksheet is practice rather than a cold start.

What phonics does this cover?

Beginning sounds, short vowels, and simple consonant-vowel-consonant words, plus dish (sh) and corn (or) and feast (ea) as gentle stretches for children who are ready.

Can I use just part of the kit?

Absolutely. The four pages are independent — the coloring sound hunt and the dice game work fine on their own as a wet-afternoon activity.