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Foster PreK–Grade 3 Language Skills with Free Printable Worksheets

by Kelin George

April 22nd 2023, 6:00 pm

Reading and writing are pretty important for young children, not just so that they do well in academics but also to make them well-equipped young adults for the real world. To hone and enhance children's reading and writing skills, we have curated a few worksheets from PreK to grade 3.

April 23 is also celebrated as English Language Day by the United Nations. The date is observed as the birthday and day of the death of William Shakespeare, a renowned English playwright. The UN observes six other official languages as a way to “entertain as well as inform, with the goal of increasing awareness and respect for the history, culture, and achievements of each of the six working languages among the UN community.”¹

Benefits of reading and writing for children

The 13 main benefits children receive from acquiring reading and writing skills are:

It cultivates a lifetime love for reading
Improves communication skills
Improves literary skills
Develops critical thinking skills
Improves a child’s creativity and imagination
Develops a child’s vocabulary
Prepares the child for academic success
Enhances the child’s cognitive development
Develops empathy toward others
Improves the parent-child bond through reading together
Develops concentration and discipline
Helps to gain a deeper understanding of the world around
Boosts social skills in children

These benefits also include developing concepts like learning sight words, reading comprehension, spellings and meanings of new words, and understanding characters, plot, and the motive of a story.

To improve a child’s reading and writing skills, we have curated grade-wise reading and writing worksheets.

PreK and Kindergarten

Children in kindergarten are learning the concepts of colors, shapes, numbers, virtual perception, and the alphabet. They are also in the process of learning and developing their fine motor skills. So, to enhance these skills, we have curated fun and engaging kindergarten worksheets.

These worksheets include kindergarten writing activities and free coloring pages to stimulate your child’s curious and creative brain.

Reading and writing worksheets for PreK and Kindergarten children

Grade 1

Grade 1 will be about expanding and developing the skills your child picked up in kindergarten and preschool years. Most grade 1 lessons will have an academic focus, and their homework will also get more challenging compared to what they did during kindergarten.

For writing skills, your child would now be familiar with writing CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words like cat, red, bat, and short simple sentences like “the dog ran home.”

Reading and writing worksheets for Grade 1

Grade 2

In grade 2, your child will likely focus on reviewing the language skills they acquired in grade 1. Your little one will learn to identify a text's “who,” “what,” “when,” “where,” “why,” and “how.” Soon they will be an independent reader and writer as they strengthen their core language skills.

For writing, your second grader will learn how to write coherent statements with proper use of capitalization and punctuation, stories with a set structure—a beginning, middle, and end, and re-edit and improve their texts with correct syntax, spelling, and punctuation.

Reading and writing worksheets for Grade 2

Grade 3

Your little one is now halfway through elementary school and may have already become an independent reader and learner. Grade 3 students advance from learning essential reading and writing skills to mastering them, and taking on more complex skills.

They will learn to be able to read grade-level text with proper pronunciation, pace, expression, and understanding, understand and apply phonic skills, read and understand grade-level poetry, begin to understand key differences between fiction and non-fiction, understand self-correction, and re-read where necessary.

For writing, your child will learn to be able to write a complete, advanced story with a proper beginning, middle, and end, understand and correctly use suffixes, prefixes, and homophones, use punctuation accurately, and revise and edit their own writing.

Reading and writing worksheets for Grade 3

So these are a few Free Printables you can download for your child to practice their reading and writing skills. Follow us for more fun and engaging worksheets.

Happy learning!

Head over to byjuslearning.com to learn more about our Active Learning approach to Math, Language, and Reading for children between Pre-K and Grade 3.

Source:

1. Celebrating the English Language at the UN. (n.d.). Retrieved April 6, 2023, from https://www.un .org / en/ observances/ english- language- day