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Initial Consonant Blend Sounds
In this initial consonant blend sounds instructional activity, 1st graders look at four pictures and write the missing consonant blends to spell each word correctly.
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Phonics: Decode and Write Words with Blends
Kids see, say, then count the phonemes they hear in a series of simple words. They practice counting phonemes with the teacher, then sound out the same word on their own. As they count each phoneme they write it down on their paper. A...
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Sm and Sn Consonant Blends
For this sm and sn consonant blends worksheet, students examine 6 pictures, say the words that are represented by each picture, identify whether the words begin with sm or sn blends, and write the words on the lines provided.
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Which Phoneme are we Going to Learn Today?
Phonemes are the focus of this colorful and engaging presentation. Learners are exposed to a variety of phonemes, and are invited to construct words using them. A fun game of phoneme Bingo appears on one of the slides, and other...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Surprise!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)
Surprise! is the theme of a unit covering such topics as consonants, blending, short vowels sounds, high frequency words, and number words. The unit's lessons also include teachable moments covering story structure, illustrations,...
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Pronunciation of Initial /s/ Consonant Clusters
Students comprehend how to produce these pronuciation features, recognize the various blends of initial /s/, hear the sounds, produce them correctly when thinking about it, and practice correct pronunciation to be comprehended by others.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Picture Slide
Here is another fun and engaging way to help youngsters build phonological awareness. In pairs, they use the provided picture cards to sound out segments of words. As they slide the picture together they say a segment of the...
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Ending Sounds
Use this resource to review consonant blends and ending sounds. Learners can look at these series of sounds, such as -ct, and come up with words that contain these endings. Since there are no clear instructions in the presentation, this...
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Consonant Clusters 2
For this consonant clusters worksheet, students examine 12 pictures and determine where the words have the sh, ch or th cluster present in them.
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Blends: "gl" or "gr"?
In this consonant blends activity, students respond to 12 fill in the blank questions that that require them to identify and use words have the "gl" and "gr" sounds. Picture clues are provided.
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Initial Consonant Blends
In this phonics instructional activity, students practice sounding out the initial consonant blends bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr, pl, pr, sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, squ, st, str, sw and tr.
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Phonics Consonant Blends Workbook Sample
In this consonant blend worksheet, 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.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting and Blending, Break and Make
Young learners build phonemic awareness and strong phoneme blending skills. Pairs guess the image on the card based on the word segment sounds given by blending what they hear.
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Whirling Word Blends
Recognizing consonant sounds and word blends are the focus of this instructional activity. Students recognize common consonant sounds that are word blends. They create a learning game to help them identify words that contain specific...
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Beginning Sounds and Blends
In this sounding out picture words learning exercise, students say the picture word, determine the beginning sound letter, circle the middle and ending blend letters, and write the words. Students write twenty words.
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!
Florida Center for Reading Research
Onset and Rime Slide
Discover onset and rime blends using this interactive activity which will appeal to your kinesthetic learners. Using the sliding templates provided, budding readers try different onsets with each rime. They practice reading skills by...
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Blending is Fun
Use a poster picture of a slide to illustrate the blending of phonemes in words. First show your youngsters basic examples like cat and cap. Then have learners work in pairs to create some blends of their own! Provide words for them to...
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Beginning and Ending Sounds - Lesson 1 of 2
Stamp, slap, and clap! Emergent readers demonstrate their awareness of the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in spoken, short vowel, single-syllable words with a stamp/slap/clap activity. After identifying the letters and sounds of...
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Short 'A' and Phoneme Blending
Have your class explore the short /a/ sound. They will pronounce isolated consonant and short /a/ sounds and then blend the sounds to make a word. An assessment sheet is provided.
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SCR
Blend consonants scr together to make a great sound used to begin words like, scream, screw, and scrap. Learners view a series of six images and related /scr/ words to practice spelling patterns, chunking, consonant blends, or reading...
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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,...
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Blending into Good Speech
Your class can increase their production of the target phoneme /sh/ through the use of video, the Internet, and hands-on activities listed here. Sound out the phoneme altogether, then model words that include /sh/ at the beginning....
Florida Center for Reading Research
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.