Articles (A, An, The) Worksheets

About this resource

A dog, an elf. A cup, an umbrella. Choosing between a and an sounds simple until a child has to listen for

the sound at the start of the word, not just the first letter — and then the pack adds the are-we-already-

talking-about-it question that decides a/an versus the. This is a full articles kit for kindergarten and

first grade: choose, sort, fill in, circle inside a sentence, tell a/an apart from the, and write a whole

sentence, with primary handwriting lines on the writing page and room to work on every page.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (30 pages)

• 13 student pages in 7 page types (below), each with a big "My name" line and one short instruction
• 32 different words, each a picture: 16 take a and 16 take an; every word is used once or twice across the

pack, never twice on the same page (a recognition pass and a sentence-writing pass over the same 32 words)

• 12 cut-and-glue pieces: six a page, two pages, each page a block that takes 3 straight cuts
• 1 rules page for the teacher (with a blank line for your program's own wording), 3 answer keys built from

the same data as the pages

• 1 tracker (12 rows), 1 class progress grid (15 rows), 1 team note, 1 home page, 1 filled example (an

invented student), 1 phrase bank (17 starters)

• 1 binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
• Start Here, a how-to-read-a-page page, and a back page

THE SEVEN PAGE TYPES (dots show the level, never color)

1. A or An? (1 dot) — a dog takes a, an elf takes an; the vowel-sound grid (a, e, o, u — i is named with no

picture, see "what this is not" below).

2. Choose a or an (1 dot, 2 pages) — a picture and its word; circle the right article: 6 items a page.

3. Sort: A House or An House (2 dots, 2 pages) — cut six cards (a picture and its word), glue each under A

or AN: 6 items a page.

4. Fill in a or an (2 dots, 2 pages) — write a or an in the blank before a pictured word: 6 items a page.

5. Circle in a Sentence (3 dots, 2 pages) — a one-line sentence with a picture; circle a or an: 4 items a

page.

6. A, An, or The? (3 dots, 2 pages) — the same picture named twice: circle a or an the first time, the the

second time: 3 items a page.

7. Write the Sentence (3 dots, 2 pages) — a given article and a pictured word; write a whole sentence on

primary lines: 3 items a page.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction with a picture, large rounded letters, and full-color pictures.

The Write the Sentence boxes sit on primary lines at least 1.3 inches tall. Nothing on a student page is

written for an adult; the level is three dots, never a word or a color. Cutting is limited to the two Sort

pages: six pieces a page, touching edge to edge, no piece smaller than 1.15 inches on a side.

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the tracker, the class grid, the team note, the home page and the rules-page note

box are type-in fields in any PDF reader. The letters a student writes in the boxes are pencil work. This is

a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Kindergarten and first grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher working with an

older student who still mixes up a and an. The home page sends the same job to a family; the team note

hands off what changed since the last meeting.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

Plain phonics-regular article practice (a vs an by the word's own first sound, then a/an vs the) with the

record-keeping around it. It is not a probe, a goal bank or a score sheet, and not a claim about any

student's age or rate of progress. Words where the sound and the spelling disagree are never practiced —

every word in the pack is a clean phonics match. No word starting with the letter i is pictured in this pack

(no honest matching picture exists in either picture set used here), so i is named on the Helper page with

no picture, never guessed at. If a child names a picture another way, say the word for them.