Grade 1 Phonics, Decoding & Spelling Patterns: Sounds That Blend
216 printable 1st Grade phonics worksheets on Sounds That Blend. 6 activity types: Crack the Code, Lesson, Read and Draw, Roll and Read. The first three are free to download; All Access opens all 216.
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Includes 6 activity types: Crack the Code, Lesson, Read and Draw, Roll and Read, Word Ladder, Word Search.
Teaching Sounds That Blend
What it is
Consonant blends are two or three consonants side by side whose sounds are each heard: fl in flag, st in stop, str in string.
When a child is ready
A child is ready once three-sound words are read smoothly and the child can hear four separate sounds in a spoken word.
If they struggle
Missing a sound in the blend is the usual error. Build the word with letter tiles, pull the blend apart and push it back together, and read blend words in families (st: stop, step, stem).
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