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Picture the Word
This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...
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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...
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Phonological Awareness - Phoneme Segmenting and Blending, Treasure Chest
Working in pairs, scholars use picture cards to practice segmenting words into phonemes and blending phonemes into words. When a peer answers correctly they place a penny in a treasure chest. Incorrect responses make the card go back in...
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Picture Pairs Final Blends
Engage your pupils in learning final blends with a game of memory! Provided here are 44 word and image pairs to print and cut out in order to put together the game. Each word includes a final blend.
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Phonics: Syllable Patterns, Picture It In Syllables
Scholars practice blending syllables by playing a matching game. Pairs flip two cards and blend syllables; if they create a word, the player writes it on a worksheet; if not, the cards return to the collection.
Curated OER
Consonant Blends Worksheet
In this consonant blends worksheet, students choose the correct beginning blend that starts each picture. Students do this for 4 pictures.
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...
Curated OER
Introduce Onset-Rime Blending
Mico (or your favorite puppet) helps emergent readers recognize words from segmented phonemes. Explain to learners that he struggles with pronouncing words and needs their help. Model how Mico segments sounds in single-syllable words....
Curated OER
Blast-Off to Blending
Practice working with different phonemes in consonants and vowels. Sounds are written on squares that get put on a rocket to "blast off" and meet other sounds. The teacher first models blending, then reads the new words. Young readers...
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Blends ABC
Review consonant blends with this visually-appealing and colorful presentation. It features a list of blends including ch, sh, th, tr, gr, pr, br, and more. There are pictures of objects that begin with the sound displayed on each slide....
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Pictures at an Exhibition
Learners discuss how the musical composition was created. They listen to "Pictures at an Exhibition." Students discuss how the Promenade in the beginning of the opus is based on Mussorgsky walking through the exhibit of paintings....
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Phoneme Split and Say
Little ones are provided with all the tools needed to begin segmenting phonemes. There are twenty Elkonin box picture cards, five blank Elkonin box cards, and full instructions on how to help pre-readers practice splitting and saying...
Curated OER
Matching Consonant Blends Worksheet
In this consonant blends worksheet, students match the beginning consonant blend with the picture whose name uses it. Students complete 5 matches.
Curated OER
Beginning Consonant Blends
In this beginning consonant blends worksheet, students fill in the correct beginning blend according to the picture being labeled. Students complete 4 problems.
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I Spy Blends
In this phonics worksheet, students practice matching consonant blends, with a partner, in a game of I Spy Blends where they match a set of consonant blend cards to a variety of pictures.
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Beginning Blend Activity
For this beginning blend worksheet, students look at pictures, say their name, listening for the beginning blend, then write the picture word.
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Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Quick Pick
What does it begin with? In this engaging phonics game, small groups study onset and rime using picture cards. Groups take turns as one player draws three cards from an overturned pile, placing them face-up on the table. They silently...
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Phonics: Onset and Rime, Rime Closed Sort
Practice onset and rime with this word sort activity. Beginning readers lay out the four picture cards along the top of the chart: fan, cap, tack, and lamp. Then, they flip word cards and sort them beneath the image with the same rime....
Curated OER
Blends - Sp and St
In this consonant blends worksheet, students work with the sp and st blends. They look at 6 pictures and decide whether they begin with sp or st. They circle the correct blend and write on the line below each picture.
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Consonant Blends - Sm and Sw
In this consonant blend worksheet, students work with the sm and sw blends. They look at 6 pictures and decide if they begin with sm or sw. They circle the correct blend and write it on the line below each picture.
Curated OER
Pl and Pr Consonant Blends
In this pl and pr consonant blends activity, students examine 6 pictures, say the words that are represented by each picture, identify whether the words begin with sm or sn blends, and write the words on the lines provided.
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Cl and Cr Consonant Blends
In this cl and cr consonant blends worksheet, students examine 6 pictures, say the words that are represented by each picture, identify whether the words begin with sm or sn blends, and write the words on the lines provided.
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Sm and Sn Consonant Blends
In this sm and sn consonant blends worksheet, students examine 6 pictures, say the words that are represented by each picture, identify whether the words begin with sm or sn blends, and write the words on the lines provided.
Curated OER
Beginning Blends "dr" and "fr"
In this consonant blends worksheet, students study and sound out the words for 12 pictures. Students choose the beginning consonant blend that correctly begins each word.