Core Knowledge Foundation
Kindergarten Skills Unit 7
A unit consists of seventeen lessons that examine six new consonant digraphs. Lessons review past concepts, introduce sounds and spelling, and offer differentiated instruction in small groups. Learners begin reading a decodable story and...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
We’re a Family: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 3)
Pay special attention to onsets and rimes and initial consonants with this packet of activities designed to provide additional support to youngsters just learning to read and write.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
We’re a Family: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 3)
Teach your English language learners how to talk about their families with three weeks of lessons. Over the course of the thematic unit, learners pick up new vocabulary so that they can talk about families and relationships, clothing,...
University of Florida
Phonological Awareness: A Sound Beginning
Choose from a variety of phonological activities to complement a reading lesson. The guide goes through the basic components of good phonics instruction focusing on sound types, levels of phonological awareness, assessment methods, and...
SEN Teacher
Literacy Dice
Reinforce literacy skills using a six-sided die that focuses on phonics and story starters. Scholars roll, and show what they know about blends, plots, and more!
Have Fun Teaching
Blends Concentration
Practice blending initial sounds with a St. Patrick's Day-themed word sort! Scholars read 20 word cards, organize them by initial blends, and write their findings on a corresponding worksheet.
K5 Learning
The Day I Tried to Cook
First graders read a short story on cooking. Then they respond to questions based on interest and practice writing.
Literacy Connects
Activities to Build Phonological Awareness
Begin your reading program each day with a mini lesson on phonological awareness using these engaging activities listed in the resource. Young ones will enjoy word families, clapping and counting syllables, identifying single sounds and...
Helping Dyslexia
Picture Pairs Blends
Challenge your pupils to match words to images with these 29 pairs. Each word includes a consonant blend, either initial or final, and should be matched with its corresponding image either by simply putting two correct cards together or...
Michigan Department of Education
Family Fundamentals for Summer Learning
Just because it's summertime, doesn't mean that learning has to stop. Support children with continuing to develop their reading fluency with this extensive collection of literacy activities.
Have Fun Teaching
Brick Breaker: Initial Consonant Blends
Practice initial consonant blends with a fun, interactive game! Choose the sounds you'd like to practice, and then have kids place the appropriate pictures for their brick breaker boards. Spin the spinner to select a blended sound, and...
Have Fun Teaching
Word Work: Blends, Digraphs & Trigraphs
Practice thirty-three different consonant blends, digraphs, and trigraphs with your emergent readers! Each letter combination has its own column in which you and your learners can write down five different words that demonstrate the...
K5 Learning
I Have Been Thinking…
Scholars read a short story about a girl visiting her grandmother, identify the main idea of the tale, and then write a sentence about this idea. Learners practice their phonics skills by filling in word blanks with letters to complete...
Curated OER
Beginning Blends Word Search
In this phonics worksheet, students find, locate and circle 17 words that have beginning consonant blends in a word search puzzle. Students say each blend as they search for each of the words in the word search puzzle.
Curated OER
Initial Blend 'Bl'
In this initial blends worksheet, students say the initial blends for each picture. Students bracket the 'bl' sound for the 5 examples.
Curated OER
Initial Blends: L Blends
In this initial blends worksheet, 1st graders say the picture word and listen for its initial blend. Students then write the blends on the lines and read the sentences containing each L-blend word.
Curated OER
Cut and Paste Words
In this initial blends practice worksheet, students examine 6 pictures, say the names of the pictures, cut the pictures out, and paste them in st, sp, and sw columns.
Curated OER
Working with Ss Blends
In this Ss blends practice worksheet, students examine 12 pictures, say the names of the pictures, and select the correct name for each of the pictures.
Curated OER
Beginning and Ending Blends - ch, sh, and th
In this spelling and grammar instructional activity, students work with the beginning and ending blends, ch, sh, and th. They fill in the blanks with blends while naming 7 clip art pictures, and they add the blends to the beginning of 9...
Curated OER
Initial Blends
In this consonant clusters instructional activity, students fill in the missing initial blends for the words. Students fill in cr, gr, fr, pr, tr, and dr to make each word match the picture. Students find nine different words.
Curated OER
Picture Blender- Beginning Blends
In this blended consonants worksheet, students examine 12 picture clues and draw a line to the blend that begins the word. Included on this page are the blends: sk, sl, sm, sn, st, tr, tw, scr, spl, spr, str.
Rock ’N Learn
Mini Stories: Beginning Blends
In this beginning blends instructional activity, students read three mini stories. In each story, there are words that are missing the initial consonant blend. Students choose a blend from the box underneath each story to complete the...
Curated OER
Initial Blend Dominoes & Matching Game
In this initial blends worksheet, student play a domino and matching game with the initial blends and picture cards which have been printed and cut out. They play with the blends: bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr, pl, pr, sc, sk, sl,...
Curated OER
Initial Blend "Tr"
In this initial blends learning exercise, students say the word for each pictures and bracket the 'tr' initial blend for each word. Students complete 5 activities.