

This Grade 1 worksheet on matching words to pictures helps young learners strengthen vocabulary and early reading skills by connecting familiar objects with their correct written words. Through colourful picture-based matching activities and simple CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words, children learn word recognition, phonics awareness, and meaning association. The worksheet is ideal for CBSE English learners at the foundational stage, making reading and grammar practice fun, visual, and confidence-building.
1. Matching pictures with words helps children recognise and remember new vocabulary.
2. It supports early reading skills by linking written words to real-life objects.
3. Practising CVC words builds phonics awareness and decoding skills.
4. These skills lay the foundation for fluent reading and sentence formation.
🧠 Exercise 1 – Match the Picture to the Correct Word
Students match common objects and animals such as bus, duck, cow, apple, shoe, and book to their correct pictures.
🔤 Exercise 2 – Match the Picture to the Correct CVC Word
Learners match simple CVC words like fan, map, cup, bed, bug, fox, and log to pictures, strengthening phonics and word recognition.
Exercise 1 – Match the Picture to the Correct Word
1. Book → book picture
2. Moon → moon picture
3. Bus → bus picture
4. Chair → chair picture
5. Leaf → leaf picture
6. Cow → cow picture
7. Shoe → shoe picture
8. Kite → kite picture
9. Duck → duck picture
10. Apple → apple picture
Exercise 2 – Match the Picture to the Correct CVC Word
1. Map → map picture
2. Bug → bug picture
3. Log → log picture
4. Jam → jam picture
5. Bed → bed picture
6. Box → box picture
7. Fan → fan picture
8. Web → web picture
9. Fox → fox picture
10. Cup → cup picture
Help your child build strong reading and vocabulary skills by matching words with clear and engaging pictures.
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It teaches children to recognize words by linking them directly to familiar images.
Repeated word-picture connections strengthen word recall and reading readiness.
It reinforces basic word recognition skills in a simple, engaging way suitable for beginners.