Florida Center for Reading Research
Rhyme Pie
Being able to recognize rhyming words is a step closer to understanding the phonemic blends that are necessary for building early reading skills. Little learners use the provided picture cards to make a rhyming pie. They glue rhyming...
Curated OER
Consonant Clusters
In this letter blend worksheet, students focus on three letter blends beginning with the "s" sound. Students cut out and sort 11 words placing each word under the correct category.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Blending, What's My Word?
At a listening station, learners listen to a pre-recorded script; they follow the directions and number each picture on their picture chart corresponding to the segmented phonemes they hear.
Florida Center for Reading Research
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...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Treasure Chest
Segmenting and blending phonemes helps budding readers understand words. Use this strategy in an engaging game where partners test each other's auditory processing using familiar words. Using picture cards and a chart (included),...
Curated OER
Phonics and Decoding Strategies for Struggling Readers Using Core Knowledge Poem
Students complete multiple activities to help them hear sounds, syllables, and spell words with vowel patterns, digraphs, or blends. In this word sounds lesson, students use letter tiles, sort words cards, analyze poems, and play a bingo...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, Three-In-One
Scholars use the provided pack of alphabet cards to construct basic CVC words, then write down each word they make in one of two columns. Column one is for real words and column two is for nonsense words.
Curated OER
Home Spelling Practice: Consonant Clusters
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of ten words that all contain a consonant cluster or blend. Students write each word one time.
Curated OER
Letter Hunt
Students search for and find certain letters, blends, or vowel combinations in words, sentences and paragraphs. They investigate how these letters, blends or combinations are used in "every day" writing.
Curated OER
Animated Alphabet
Students explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. In this word recognition lesson, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Students identify the origin of individual...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Person to Person: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)
Authors use many strategies when writing stories. A series of extra support lessons breaks down those strategies, as well as key grammatical and phonics-based concepts to support struggling learners. The last of three lessons offers...
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.
Curated OER
Consonants Blended with Long Vowels and Endings
Students practice vowel and phonic sounds. In this grammar lesson, students practice rhythm, rhymes, voiced phonic sounds, unvoiced phonic sounds and voiced vowel signs. Students brainstorm words with the cvce patterns.
Curated OER
Phonics: CK
In this phonics ck worksheet, students view nine different pictures and place them in sequential order on the lines provided.
Curated OER
Beginning Blend Activity
In this beginning blend worksheet, students look at pictures, say their name, listening for the beginning blend, then write the picture word.
Curated OER
Chuggin' Choo Choo
For this word recognition instructional activity, learners examine 6 rows containing 3 words each. Learners identify the word in each row that begins with the consonant cluster ch or ends with consonant cluster ch.
Curated OER
Initial Blends with L as the Second Letter
Students listen to and read the poem "Cat's Eyes" and discuss the repetition of words and the blends in the poem.
Curated OER
Tick Tock Puzzle
In this consonant clusters worksheet, students use a 'ck' consonant cluster word to fill in the puzzle pieces. Kids then cut the pieces out and glue them onto the clock. Students use the pictures for help.
Curated OER
Phonics: SH
In this phonics blending of SH worksheet, students complete a maze to find the nine pictures of words containing SH, say what each picture is and then write each one down in sequential order.
Curated OER
Phonics: CH
In this phonics CH worksheet, students view twelve pictures, say and pronounce each one, write in the CH in each word and then read each word out loud.
Curated OER
"Bl" Blend Words
In this "bl" blend words worksheet, students complete the crossword puzzle by using the "bl" words from the word bank of twelve "bl" words.
Curated OER
Beginning Blends Word Search #2
In this beginning blends worksheet, students find a set of 17 words with beginning blends. Words are found in a list at the bottom of the page. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
Curated OER
Letter Sound Fluency
How fast can you go? Test scholars' letter sound recognition with a timed game. Using letter cards of all the letters you've learned so far, learners take turns flipping cards and correctly saying the letter sound. Model this first,...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Friends Together: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)
Friendship is the theme in this series of extra support lessons. With a variety of resources (practice worksheets, letter, word, punctuation and picture cards), young readers gain knowledge of initial consonants v and h, blending short...