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Blending is the primary decoding strategy that must be modeled and applied frequently to build word fluency. Research shows that students who are learning to read need explicit phonics skills instruction and plenty of practice blending words in isolation and in context to achieve the greatest gains.
These Fluency Builders follow a strategic scope and sequence with review words, focused skill, and challenge words. In addition, each printable contains two sentences to provide connected text reading practice.
The printable worksheets are perfect to use as a daily warm-up for whole/small groups, assessments, and can even be sent home for strategic practice.
Included in this resource:
- 30 printable word blending activities
- master lesson skills list
Each of the 30 lessons focuses on one phonetic pattern:
- short a
- short i
- short o
- short u
- short e
- l-blends
- s-blends
- r-blends
- digraph sh, th
- digraph ch, tch, wh
- digraph ng, nk
- a_e, i_e
- o_e, u_e, e_e
- long vowel e, i, o
- long a (ai, ay)
- long e (ee, ea)
- long o (oa, ow)
- long i (y, igh)
- long u (u, ew, ue)
- r-controlled ar
- r-controlled er, ir, ur
- r-controlled or, ore, oar
- short oo and long oo
- diphthong ou, ow
- diphthong oi, oy
- complex vowels au, aw, alk
- r-controlled are, air, ear
- long i and o (ild, ind, old)
- long i and o (ie, oe)
- long e (y, ey, ie)
Dalia Elgamal (verified owner) –
Christina Winter never ceases to amaze me. This has been great for reading intervention and small groups.
Maria Doubrava (verified owner) –
This is such a great resource for progress monitoring my small groups for reading intervention!
Maria Doubrava (verified owner) –
This is such a great resource for progress monitoring!
Deana Pomajzl (verified owner) –
This is a great addition to word study activities.
Amanda Nemeth (verified owner) –
This seriously changed my foster sons reading trajectory. I’m not a teacher but was desperate to try anything to catch him up. He’s in second grade and tested at kindergarten level again in January. He has and interventionist plus 4 hours of after school tutoring a week in addition to his standard reading and homework. It was just not clicking for him. I found Mrs Winters bliss on Pinterest and I am so glad I did. We’re only 5 pages into the packet and he’s already have several aha moments! These are giving him confidence and that has helped him so much. I can wait to see how his scores improve by the end of the school year!
Christina –
Hi Amanda, WOW! Thank you so much for sharing your feedback. It means so much to me to hear that this resource was so helpful for your foster son. How luck he is to have such an investor mother to help him make progress. I hope you’ll reach out if I can can share anything to support you both on your journey! With bliss, -Christina