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Blend & Dab Beginning Blends Worksheets

By thisreadingmama 8 Comments

Are you teaching a learner who is struggling a bit with beginning blends? These blend and dab beginning blends worksheets are so helpful!

If you like these, you might like our entire NO PREP Blends Dot Pages Pack!

Blend and Dab Beginning Blends Worksheets - free - This Reading Mama

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**The free beginning blends worksheets can be downloaded towards the end of the post. Just click on the teal download button.

 

Beginning Blends Worksheets

When kids move from CVC short vowel words to words with blends {and even digraphs}, it can be a tricky transition. It was for my 1st grader.

My biggest piece of advice when phonics gets tricky is to take away the words and focus more on sounds, like we did with our beginning phonemic awareness cards.

That’s exactly what these 8 FREE beginning blends worksheets get learners doing. Even though they do include the letters of the blends, the focus is more on listening for beginning blends with the pictures included.

 

touch and say individual letter sounds - beginning blends worksheets

The first step is to touch each letter and say each separate sound, like /s/ /l/.

 

slide and blend the two sounds

The next step is to start on the dot and slide the finger across as learners blend the two sounds /s-l/.

 

dab the beginning blends worksheets

Then, learners find the TWO pictures that start with that blend and dab it with dot paint markers.

Included in the free pack are 8 beginning blend worksheets: 2 for l-blends, 2 for r-blends, 2 for s-blends, and 2 mixed review pages.

 

Keep scrolling for the freebie or grab the entire pack!

 

 

 

 

Enjoy!
~Becky

 

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Comments

  1. Joy says

    December 4, 2016 at 6:21 pm

    Thanks this is a difficult skill for my class of ELL students. I really need these!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      December 5, 2016 at 6:46 am

      You’re welcome! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Amber says

    December 4, 2016 at 6:22 pm

    Thank you! This will be PERFECT as we begin talking about blends! I like the way this explain the two individual sounds and then blending them together!

    Reply
  3. Terry says

    January 19, 2017 at 6:15 pm

    Your brain is just so filled with all kinds of great ideas. Thanks for sharing!!!!!!!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      January 19, 2017 at 9:21 pm

      Sometimes I wish it would just turn off. 😉

      Reply
  4. Jacqueline says

    January 31, 2018 at 1:40 pm

    Thanks so much for the resources. I use them for intervention time.

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      February 4, 2018 at 7:39 am

      You’re welcome!

      Reply
  5. AMBER BROWN says

    August 8, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    Absolutely what I needed . Anytime My daughter seems to struggle with something I can always find a perfect tool on your site. Thank you for sharing your talents with us all.

    Reply

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Hi! I’m Becky, a homeschooling mama with 4 blessings who keep me on my toes {and knees}. Before homeschooling, I was a classroom teacher (M.Ed.) and reading tutor. Read more about me here.

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