Word Match with Colors

On this Kindergarten matching sheet, a child reads short words and connects each to its colors picture. Reading the words for red, blue and green things and more, the child links every word to the picture it stands for. Matching written words to pictures rehearses sight-reading — recognizing whole familiar words at a glance — which Common Core's foundational reading skills build in Kindergarten.

Word-recognition is foundational Kindergarten reading: the child reads a familiar word by sight and matches it to its picture, building the instant whole-word reading that fluency depends on. Doing it with colors pictures keeps each word meaningful and the practice rewarding, exactly the kind of reading early readers are ready for.

Children who like reading and matching colors words build their sight vocabulary every time. When this feels easy, read the words in word match with desserts and sweets, or try word match with forest creatures. You can also browse every word-matching worksheet or the whole kindergarten collection — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and every match adds to the words a child can read at a glance, steadily growing the sight vocabulary that makes reading sentences feel natural and, in time, unhurried.