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Go Fish For Blends and Digraphs

For Teachers K - 1st
Youngsters practice using blends and digraphs. In this early reading lesson, students play a game of "Go Fish" using words that contain a blend or digraph. This allows them to practice recognizing the word and using it in a sentence.
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Hello Class: Consonant Blends

For Teachers 2nd
Review consonant blends with your scholars. Learners read a series of words containing a consonant blend, such as sp and mp. Then, they solve riddles involving these sounds. Finally, they create a list of words that have consonant blends.
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Word Work: Blends, Digraphs & Trigraphs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Lesson 4 - Consonant Blends

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Old, ild, ind, and ost may sound like a foreign language, but they actually represent common final consonant blends. Help learners recognize and pronounce consonant blends with step-by-step instructions, including scripted conversations....
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Consonant Blends

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this consonant blends worksheet, students underline the word that best complete the sentences, where they choose from 3 words with the same consonant blend. Students complete 12 problems.
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Picture Pairs Blends

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Building With Blends

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Understanding consonant blends is crucial for young readers. In this language arts lesson, students examine consonant blends, and play the folder game, "Building With Blends," in small groups. The game is especially engaging!
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Pronunciation: The Sounds /s/, /z/ or, /iz/? Consonant Clusters with "s"

For Students 6th - 12th
Instruct your class on how to pronounce /s/ sounds with this resource. Learners fill in the final /s/ sound into blanks, listen to plural sounds, learn about the rules of the target sound, write sentences, and work with consonant...
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Blends ABC

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
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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Triple Blends

For Teachers 2nd
Use this resource to practice consonant blends in a second grade class. Focusing on scr-, str-, spr-, and spl-, learners identify words with these sounds. This presentation could be employed as an introductory activity before a spelling...
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Brick Breaker: Initial Consonant Blends

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
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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Triple blends 'scr'

For Students 2nd - 4th
This worksheet explores the triple blend, 'scr'. First, learners use the given word dial to create different words starting with 'scr'. Next, they copy and complete 8 different sentences. Lastly, the class copies 4 yes or no questions...
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Five Part Phonics: Blends

For Teachers 1st
First graders participate in a variety of activities that feature the consonant blend 'st'. They read "Stan the Squid" and "Stella Started for the Station", answer comprehension questions for the stories, manipulate beginning sounds and...
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Consonant Blend: spr-

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Use this presentation to review the consonant blend spr-. With colorful pictures and a clear format, this resource is useful as a whole-group activity or at a center. This technique could be used to review a variety of topics. 
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Worksheet Set: Super Phonics Level 2

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Supercharge beginning readers phonics skills with this extensive collection of worksheets. With exercises on long and short vowels, consonant blends, rhyming words, word endings, and much more, this resource is a primary grade teacher's...
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Phonics: Read and Write Words with a Consonant Blend

For Teachers K
Reading often times starts with phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence. Get little ones blending those letter sounds together to read and write simple words. As the teacher sounds out each word, learners count phonemes, and...
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L Blends

For Teachers K
In this writing worksheet, students write the words of 6 pictures. All of the words contain L blends (slide, plates, flag, etc). Students also draw pictures using 2 of the words.
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R Blends

For Teachers K - 1st
In this blends worksheet, students complete 7 sentences by choosing from 12 words given. Students find the 7 words in a word search. Students also unscramble 3 words.
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High Five Blend and Word Family Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Practice using word blends and learning about word families by participating in a class game. Learners will collaborate as teams in a game by throwing beanbags onto a shower curtain with word blends on it. They will say the sound their...
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Phonics: Onset and Rime, Change-A-Word

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Kids use their phonological know-how to identify and segment onset and rime blends. Double rime picture cards (cat and hat) are chosen, then matched to onset cards that make each word, such as the k sound for a cat and the h sound for a...
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Beginning Consonant Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young readers practice their beginning consonant sounds. Solid worksheets prompt students to practice their consonant in fun ways. These worksheets use Clifford the Big Red Dog as a theme, and give the kids excellent and colorful practice.
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I Spy Blends

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this phonics learning exercise, 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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Consonant Blends Puzzles

For Teachers 1st
In this consonant blends puzzles worksheet, 1st graders will fill in the missing letters to spell each picture clue word to complete each mini crossword puzzle (6 total).
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Phonics Blends 9

For Students K - 2nd
In this beginning consonant clusters worksheet, students respond to 6 questions that require them to select and identify the consonant clusters that match the pictures shown.