Phoneme Blending Activities to Engage

These fun and interactive boards will help students practice combining sounds to form CVC and CCVC words while keeping them motivated and engaged. The bright colors and fun images are sure to peak your students interest in playing these games and won’t even know they’re actually learning! 

In this ‘Match and Cover’ game students choose a card and identify the word by blending the phonemes. Then, they need to find the matching image on the game board and cover it with their word card. Play continues until all of the words have been covered. 

This game can be adjusted in so many ways here are some suggestions:

• A simple individual activity where they race against the clock to beat their own time.
• In pars, students need to put a counter on the words they get correct.
• Use it like tic-tac-toe, students need to try and get a row to win.

How to Teach Blending CVC Words

Teaching budding readers to blend CVC words is an important skill for them to develop. This includes helping students to smoothly combine individual sounds to form words – which assists with them also comprehending what they are reading.

Here’s a suggested sequence of teaching events to help students with this skill.

1. Introduce the phonemes – students must be familiar with the phonemes of each letter of the alphabet.
2. Model blending – demonstrate blending CVC words – you could even use this quiz in a whole class environment and have some students also model the blending of these phonemes.
3. Segment and blend – first break down the words into the individual sounds and then segment to bring the sounds back together to say the whole word.
4. Practice, practice, practice – use manipulatives, letter tiles, flashcards and printable resources to allow students the opportunity to practice blending phonemes and letters to read words.

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Use the drop down menu to choose between the editable Google Slide version of this resource or the easy to print PDF version.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and a Teach Starter collaborator.

More Phoneme Blending Resources

Looking for more resources to use in the classroom?  We have you covered…

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Blending Phonemes CVC Word BINGO

Practice blending phonemes to form one-syllable words with this set of 20 bingo game boards and cards.

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Phoneme Blending Blender Activity

Set your students up for success when learning to blend phonemes by using this fun blender activity to practice blending simple CVC words. 

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Blending Words Digital Quiz

Get your students to practice their blending with simple CVC words using this digital activity.