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Contents 1 Common core standards 2 Related articles 3 Teaching strategies 4 Classroom activities 5 Cyber games and activities 5.1 iPad apps 6 Free worksheets 7 Helpful links 8 At home 9 Product reviews

Common core standards

• Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3b
• Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3a

Related articles

• L blends
• R blends
• S blends
• N blends
• End blends
• Beginning blends
• Trigraphs and Clusters
• Digraphs
• Phonics

Teaching strategies

Classroom activities

• Adrian Bruce's Go Read Card Game is a printable go-fish based game that focuses on beginning blends.

• Adrian Bruce's Jump Game is an outdoor, movement based game. The teacher writes blends on the concrete and students have to jump to the blend that the teacher calls.

• The Resource Site's Dr.Blends Game divides up blend word words by their "doctor" (Dr.S etc). Students can sort words on their own or play competitively. There are LOTS of words to cut out so beware.

Cyber games and activities

| Soft School's blend game has student choose the correct blend to spell words like plant or clam. The game is pretty boring, but makes for good drill and kill.

| Your Child Learns Game is fairly dry, but is good practice for students at identifying which sounds they hear in an initial blend (p--r--incess). Honestly, the game is fine but the narrator has an annoying voice.

| Your Child Learns S Blend Game is the same as the other game, except the narrator is less annoying and all of the words have s blends.

| BBC Schools Blender Game has students choose the beginning blend and end sounds that they hear in a word and then the blender blends them together and says the word back to the student.

iPad apps

Free worksheets

• School Express Blends Worksheets has 11 different blend worksheets. All have students choose the blend that describes a pictures--e.g. cl or cr for a picture of a clock.

• Mixed beginning blends
  • Super Teachers Beginning Blends Worksheet 1 has students circle the blend that describes the picture.
  • Super Teachers Beginning Blends Worksheet 2 has students complete words with the correct blends.
  • First School Years' Mixed initial Blends Worksheet 1 has students write the correct initial blend for each picture.
  • First School Years' Mixed initial Blends Worksheet 2 has students write the correct initial blend for each picture.

• Specific blend worksheets
  • Have Fun Teaching BL and BR Blends Worksheet 1 has students choose the blend that describes the picture.
  • Have Fun Teaching CL and CR Blends Worksheet 1 has students choose the blend that describes the picture.
  • First School Years' CL and CR Worksheet has students write the correct initial blend for each picture.
  • First School Years' GL and GR Worksheet has students write the correct initial blend for each picture.
  • First School Years' BL and BR Worksheet has students write the correct initial blend for each picture.
  • First School Years' FL and FR Worksheet has students write the correct initial blend for each picture.
  • First School Years' PL and PR Worksheet has students write the correct initial blend for each picture.
  • First School Years' TR and TW Worksheet has students write the correct initial blend for each picture.

• First School Years CCVC Words Worksheet has students spell CCVC words from pictures.

Helpful links

• MES English has printable, foldable cards that can be used for drills or for playing card games like go fish.

At home

Product reviews

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