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Word Work: Blends, Digraphs & Trigraphs
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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Phonics Consonant Blends Workbook Sample
In this consonant blend instructional activity, 1st graders complete words with th, wh, ch, or sh. They draw a line from the carrot next to the words with short vowel sounds to the basket at the bottom of the page.
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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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Matching Consonant Blends Worksheet
In this consonant blends instructional activity, students match the beginning consonant blend with the picture whose name uses it. Students complete 5 matches.
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Activity Phonics
In this consonant blends worksheet, students complete two pages of activities pertaining to the "bl" and "pl" blends. Students illustrate words with consonant blends and fill in the missing blends in words.
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Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, A Digraph A Word
Learners view a series of images, then choose digraphs, consonants, and vowels to spell out the object's name on each card.
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The Wh Spelling
Review the wh sound with your class. This series of slides shows a picture of an object that begins with this sound and displays the word above. It is a quick and easy way to discuss this topic. It could be used as a review during a...
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Whispering Whales
In this consonant blends worksheet, learners examine 10 words and identify those that begin with the blend wh. Students find the identified words in a word search and then answer a bonus question.
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Add ch, sh, th, wh
In this word blends learning exercise, students put ch, sh, th, and wh in the beginning of words. Students fill in the beginning of 10 words and put 6 words into sentences.
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Phonics Blend
In this literacy worksheet, students practice reading words with different phonics blends. Each word has a picture to help with vocabulary acquisition.
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Guided Reading: Shapes Where We Play
Young scholars discover shapes on a playground. In this guided reading lesson, students discover new vocabulary words related to shapes as they read Shapes Where We Play. In small groups, young scholars use picture clues and one to one...
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Starting or Ending Blends- "th, qu, or wh"
In this beginning or ending blend worksheet, 1st graders examine 12 black line pictures. They draw a circle around the proper beginning or ending blend under each picture. They choose between "th, qu or wh."
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Well Done Certificates for Phonemes
In this language arts instructional activity, students receive one of the 4 reward certificates when they have mastered reading and writing the specified phonemes and blends. Teachers sign and date these certificates before giving them...
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Wheat Berry Sprouts
Students prepare a wheat berry sprouts sandwich and discuss digraphs. In this wheat berry sprouts lesson, students circle the digraphs in the recipe for the wheat berry sprouts sandwich.