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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.
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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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Initial Blends: L Blends
In this initial blends instructional activity, 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.
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...
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.
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Poem: Initial Blends
In this initial blends worksheet, students read the poem and use the words with the initial blend sound of 'l' to help them complete the poem. Students then recopy the poem onto a sheet of paper and illustrate it.
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Drew the Dragon: Consonant Clusters
In this initial blends activity, students read the ending sections of the 3 word lists. Students then write in the missing initial blend of br, cr, and gr.
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Initial Consonant Blends #3
Learners read ten sentences and use the word bank to find the correct missing word. There are ten sentences that illustrate initial consonant blends. Younger learners will most likely need additional support to complete this activity.
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.
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...
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Initial Blend "Cr"
In this initial blend "cr" instructional activity, students read six labeled pictures that contain the blend "cr". Students bracket the blend in each word. Example: (cr)own.
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Initial Blend "Gr"
In this consonant blend "gr" worksheet, students read six illustrated words that begin with the consonant blend "gr". Students bracket the "gr" sound in each word. Example: (gr)ill.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Family and Friends: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)
Family and Friends is the theme of a unit offering extra support lessons. Follow each lesson plan's teach, blend, guided practice or practice/apply routine to reinforce concepts such as clusters, responding to reading, drawing...
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Initial L Blends
In this initial L blend worksheet, students say picture words, saying the beginning blend, middle vowel and final vowel sound, then write the word on a space provided. Students then practice reading sentences that contain the words.
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Initial Consonant Cluster
In this grammar worksheet, students read and identify squ- words and then, recognize that sq (and q) are always followed by u. They also read a story and highlight all the words that begin with squ. Finally, students complete a crossword...
Kathryn J. Davis
Spelling Workbook: Phonics Patterns
Set your pupils straight with spelling and sounds by using these materials for practice. Included here are three booklets and workbooks that cover just about any sound or blend you could think of!
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Initial Blend "-st"
In this consonant blends instructional activity, students read 6 illustrated words that contain the blend "st". Students draw a bracket around the "st" in each word.
August House
Anansi Goes To Lunch - First Grade
Greed is the theme of this collection of multidisciplinary activities. As a class, read The West African folktale, Anansi Goes to Lunch by Bobby Norfolk, and take part in a grand discussion about it's plot and theme. Reinforce the theme...
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Initial Consonant Clusters 3
In this ESL worksheet, students analyze word and picture cards. The worksheet focuses on using consonant blends tr, pr, dr, and gr at the onset of words. Students also practice reading words that contain "ee" and "ry."
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Sleeping Beauty: Initial S Clusters
In this consonant cluster activity, students read through the sections for the 'sleeping beauty' poem. Students then cut out the strips of the story and rearrange them so the poem is in order.
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Creating Rhyming Words
In this creating rhyming words worksheet, students substitute initial consonants to create rhyming words, then check their answers and continue to the next one.
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Word and Letter Practice #10
In this word and letter practice activity, students say letters and sounds of letters, practice reading simple sentences and sight words, then say names of pictures and say the beginning sound of each.
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Initial Consonant Clusters
For this literacy worksheet, learners look for the words that correlate to the pictures that are listed. They are all words that are consonant clusters.
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Initial Consonant Clusters -1
In this literacy worksheet, students find the words to complete the crossword puzzle. They are focusing on the concept of consonant clusters.