Autumn brings so many familiar pictures and words into kindergarten literacy lessons. Pumpkins, apples, leaves, woodland animals, and other seasonal themes make it easy to build meaningful phonics, vocabulary, and reading activities around this time of year.
I created these Autumn Literacy Worksheets for Kindergarten to provide children with engaging practice across a wide range of early literacy skills. The complete 87-page packet includes activities for alphabet recognition, beginning sounds, syllables, rhyming, sight words, word families, sentence comprehension, and more.
Every worksheet is print-and-go, making the packet easy to use for morning work, literacy centers, small groups, independent practice, homeschool lessons, or take-home activities. Many of the pages also include coloring, cutting, pasting, and matching to give children extra fine motor practice.
Free Autumn Literacy Worksheets for Kindergarten
Would you like to try some of the activities first? You can download a selection of free sample pages from the packet.
Click here to download the free autumn literacy worksheets, or click the download button below. You will find links to the complete 87-page packet near the end of this post.
Autumn Literacy Worksheets for Kindergarten in Action
Here is a closer look at the literacy activities included in the packet and the skills children will practice as they complete them.
Autumn Tree Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Matching
Children match the uppercase letter shown on each autumn tree to the corresponding lowercase letter on a leaf. The packet includes six pages, with five letters presented on each page so children can work with a manageable number of choices.
Children can color the matching leaf with a crayon or marker, or use dot paint for an additional fine motor element. This activity provides focused practice recognizing uppercase and lowercase forms of the same letter.
Autumn Leaves Missing Letters Cut and Paste
These two cut-and-paste worksheets help children practice alphabetical order. Children look at each row of lowercase letters, identify the missing letter, and paste the correct leaf into the empty space.
Cutting and positioning the small letter pieces also provides useful scissor and fine motor practice while children work with letter sequences.
Pumpkin Letters and Words Sorting Activity
In this activity, children decide whether each pumpkin shows an individual letter or a complete word. They cut out the pumpkins and paste them into the correct column.
This simple sorting task helps children understand that letters are individual symbols and that words are made from groups of letters arranged in a meaningful order.
Autumn Beginning Sounds
Children say the name of each autumn picture, listen for its first sound, and color the letter that represents that sound. The two worksheets include familiar pictures such as a pumpkin, apple, raccoon, wagon, hay, and leaf.
This activity provides practice connecting spoken sounds with printed letters, an important early phonics skill.
Autumn Syllable Counting
Children name each fall picture, clap or say the word slowly, and color the number showing how many syllables they hear. Pictures include an apple, pumpkin, hedgehog, tree, wagon, and owl.
The two worksheets can be completed with crayons, markers, or dot paint. Breaking words into syllables helps children listen to and work with the larger sound parts in spoken words.
Autumn Rhyming Pairs Cut and Paste
Children say the name of each picture and listen for the word that rhymes with it. They then cut out the pictures from the bottom of the page and paste each one beside its rhyming partner.
Picture pairs such as fox and box allow children to focus on hearing the matching ending sounds without needing to read the words independently.
Autumn Beginning Blends
For children who are ready to work beyond individual beginning sounds, this worksheet introduces common beginning blends. Children name each picture and color the blend they hear at the beginning of the word.
This gives children practice listening for two consonant sounds at the beginning of a word and connecting those sounds with the matching letters.
Squirrel and Acorn Word Families Cut and Paste
These five worksheets introduce children to common short-vowel word families. Children read the word on each acorn and paste it beside the squirrel displaying the matching word family ending.
Sorting words into families helps children notice that words can share the same ending pattern. Once children recognize the pattern, they can use it to read and spell other words in the same family.
Pumpkin Pre-Primer and Primer Sight Words
Each page asks children to find and color pumpkins containing a particular sight word. The focus word is repeated several times among a small selection of other familiar words.
The worksheets can also be cut into smaller sections when children need shorter, more targeted practice with one word at a time.
Counting Words in Autumn Sentences
Children read each fall-themed sentence, count the individual words, and write the total in the box. A second version includes a dot beneath each word to help children see where one word ends and the next begins.
The two versions make it easier to provide additional visual support when needed. This activity also reinforces the purpose of spaces between written words.
Autumn Sentence and Picture Matching
Children read each simple sentence and paste the corresponding picture beside it. The pictures provide a clear way for children to demonstrate that they understand what they have read.
The short, predictable sentences use familiar vocabulary and sight words, making the activity suitable for developing readers.
Write the Missing Sight Words
Children choose from a selection of sight words and write the correct word on each empty line to complete the sentence. A picture beside each sentence provides an additional clue.
This activity gives children practice reading a complete sentence, considering its meaning, and selecting the word that makes sense in context.
Fall Colors Emergent Reader and Comprehension Page
The Fall Colors emergent reader introduces children to a simple seasonal text with predictable sentences and picture support. To assemble the reader, cut the pages in half, place them in order, and staple them along the left side.
After reading the booklet, children complete the accompanying comprehension page by coloring the circle beside each correct answer. The questions encourage children to recall information and locate important details from the text.
Autumn Build-a-Word Vocabulary Booklet
This interactive booklet gives children practice building 11 autumn vocabulary words. Children trace the focus word, color the matching picture, cut apart the letter tiles, and arrange the letters in the correct order.
The booklet combines vocabulary, letter recognition, spelling, handwriting, and fine motor practice in one hands-on activity. Children can glue the tiles into place or keep them loose so they can build each word more than once.
The Autumn Literacy Worksheets for Kindergarten provide plenty of seasonal practice without requiring complicated preparation. You can select individual pages to match your current literacy focus or combine several activities to create an autumn-themed literacy unit.
The variety of worksheet formats also makes it easier to revisit important skills in different ways. Children can color, match, sort, cut, paste, trace, write, build words, and read while working with familiar fall vocabulary.
Purchase the Autumn Literacy Worksheets for Kindergarten
The complete packet includes 87 pages of autumn-themed literacy activities. Click either store button below to view the resource and learn more about everything included.
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Happy Teaching! 😊
