Ben’s Goats

Worksheet Description

This worksheet is a reading fluency exercise that encourages early readers to practice phonemic awareness and sentence structure. It lists words that rhyme (pen, hen, Ben, den, men), and provides a short passage containing these words in context. Students are instructed to read the passage, underline the rhyming words as they appear within the text, rewrite their favorite sentence from the passage, and finally, write the names of the two illustrated items at the bottom of the page.

The worksheet is designed to teach students to recognize and understand words that share common ending sounds, enhancing their ability to decode similar-sounding words through rhyming. By rewriting sentences, they practice handwriting and further cement their understanding of the sentence they choose. The activity of underlining words in the passage helps to reinforce word recognition skills, and writing the names of the pictures reinforces the connection between written language and visual representation. This multi-faceted approach aims to build foundational literacy skills in a simple and engaging way.