Kindergarten Reading Colour Words worksheets

About this worksheet

Colour words are some of the first whole words a kindergartner reads by sight, because red and blue do not sound out the way a beginner expects and because a child usually knows the colour long before they can decode the letters. This worksheet never asks a child to judge a printed colour swatch, which would fail the moment the page is copied in black and white. Instead, each question names something every child already knows well — a carrot, a frog, a bear, a fluffy sheep, a whale in the sea — and asks what colour it is. Every question has a picture of the thing beside it; on a black-and-white printout the picture shows which thing is meant, and the colour comes from what the child knows. The child then reads the colour words and points to the right one.

Anything that honestly comes in two colours was left out, so an apple, which is red or green depending on the apple, is not on the page at all. Getting the answer right depends on reading the word choices correctly and matching them to something real, which is the honest way to teach a colour word once a page can no longer show the colour itself. Support items offer three word choices; standard and challenge items offer four. Read each choice all the way to the end with your child rather than guessing from the first letter, since red, brown and blue all begin with different sounds but purple and yellow can otherwise be mixed up by shape alone.

What your child will learn

• Read red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown and white by sight
• Match a colour word to a well-known real object
• Choose the correct word from a set of similar-looking choices
• Answer a colour question from what you know about the real thing