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Free Reading

Free Reading: Bl to the Ends (Blends) Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This activity introduces letter blends both with index cards/flashcards and reenforcement with students highlighting the blends on individual word lists.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Riddle Game: Oral Blending

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun classroom game! The teacher says a riddle, gives the sounds that make up the answer, and the students guess the answer by blending the sounds together.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Blending Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the sounds that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then blend the sounds together to form words.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: What's the Sound? Identifying Phenomes Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An activity to build students' abilities to identify sounds, even in nonsense words. The teacher says a word and states that it is not a real word, but asks the students to just listen for the sounds.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Teaching Blending

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How do you teach your students to develop a blending ability through phonics instruction? This site features information to help get you started in your quest for this goal. According to this article you can begin with rhyming. Come and...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Draw My Sounds: Oral Blending Fluency Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun activity that has students draw each individual letter and then blend them together.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Lucky Dip Game: Oral Blending and Segmenting

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students pull an object from a bag, keep it hidden, stretch out its name by pronouncing each letter sound for at least a second, and everyone else has to guess the object.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Initial Blends Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor introduces words with initial consonant blends. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words sounded out,...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Blends (Ending, Part 1) Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate blends in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Blends (Ending, Part 2) Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate blends in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Initial Blends Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of initial blends. Words with initial blends are included on the assessment. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: intial blends" lesson.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Blends (Ending, Part 1) Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of blends. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: blends (ending, part 1)" lesson.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Blends (Ending, Part 2) Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of consonant blends. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: blends (ending, part 2" lesson.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Hunt Tally: A Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students play detective and discover a given letter at the beginning of a word. They keep a "tally" sheet and compete with their classmates. This site includes links to Letter cards and a Letter Hunt Tally Sheet.
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Race Game: Letter Sound Fluency

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting classroom word game based on the game "Boggle." The classroom is divided into groups. The teacher says a letter, and each students writes down as many words as they can that begin with that letter. Then they compare with the...
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Curated OER

The Reading Genie: Teaching Blending

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Suggestions of ways to help students learn to blend phonemes to make real or nonsense words. Dr. Murray explains both onset-rime and body-coda methods of blending.
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Other

Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun activity for kinesthetic learners! Students learn motions to go along with letter sounds. This site includes a link to a building fluency site.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Gus the Duck

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn the short U vowel sound with this cleverly illustrated and animated read-along story about a duck named Gus. Students can click on the word and it will show them how to blend phonemes to pronounce the word.
Interactive
Other

Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Finish My Sentence: Oral Blending Accuracy Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Picture Hunt Activity: Phoneme Manipulation

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This activity uses the students' favorite classroom book as a resource. The instructor says We are going on a Picture Hunt! and then asks the class where an object is in the picture, but leaves out the first letter sound when asking.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Listen for My Sound. A Phoneme Segmenting Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A simple, yet effective activity to teach students to identify the same sounds in different words. The teacher says a word and the students give a thumbs up or thumbs down. This site also includes a Word Generator list link as a resource.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Consonant Blends and Digraphs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Lesson students will look at the pictures and use Activotes to choose the correct blend.
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School Express

Schoolexpress.com: Phonics Blends Worksheets

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Phonics Blends is a great way to demonstrate the use of letter and picture association. The student must identify the first two letters of the picture given and then write them on the line provided.

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