Kindergarten phonics games

Ages 5–6

Teaches phonics, blending sounds into around 200 simple words.

Play Kindergarten words

Opens Tick or Fix.

Your child spends nearly the whole year on letter sounds, blending them into words, and a small set of "trick words" that don't sound out the regular way — words like "the", "was" and "said". Right at the very end of the year, the first two word-building pieces appear: "un-" and "re-" added to the front of words. This matches what's covered in Kindergarten classrooms across the US.

Checked against the Common Core reading standards for Kindergarten (RF.K.2 and RF.K.3).

Games that match Kindergarten

• Fredle — phonics word puzzle.
• Tick or Fix — fix the word, win a star.
• ABC Gap — find the missing letter.
• b or d — which way round? b d p q.
• Number Words — spell the number, win a star.
• Make a Rainbow — drop the colours in order.

Opening a game from this page sets the school year to Kindergarten, and every game then keeps the words at that level — so a Kindergarten child gets Kindergarten words, not a guess. The school year is a tap away inside the game, so a child moving up a year, or a younger sibling taking a turn, changes it in seconds.

Same ages in the UK: Year 1 (ages 5–6).