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Blends Bonanza Collection

Blends Bonanza is a full color reproducible collection that has 26 blends sets as well as support materials for teaching this skill. Included are updated posters, puzzles, poems and songs, configuration and cloze activities, crossword puzzles, skill wheels, shape books, big book, word cards, sorts, word searches, alphabetizing, charts, dominoes and other new games and activities. New to the set are little reproducible readers!

Bl Blends Set Anchor Word: blow	Br Blends Set Anchor Word: braces
Cl Blends Set Anchor Word: climb	Cr Blends Set Anchor Word: cry
Dr Blends Set Anchor Word: drink	Fl Blends Set Anchor Word: flake
Fr Blends Set Anchor Word: fries	Gl Blends Set Anchor Word: globe
Gr Blends Set Anchor Word: grow	Pl Blends Set Anchor Word: plant
Pr Blends Set Anchor Word: present	Sc Blends Set Anchor Word: scooter
Scr Clusters Set Anchor Word: scrub	Sk Blends Set Anchor Word: skate
Sl Blends Set Anchor Word: sleepy	Sm Blends Set Anchor Word: smile
Sn Blends Set Anchor Word: snack	Sp Blends Set Anchor Word: spaghetti
Spl Clusters Set Anchor Word: splash	Spr Clusters Set (17 pages) Anchor Word: spray
St Blends Set Anchor Word: stuck	Str Clusters Set Anchor Word: string
Sw Blends Set Anchor Word: swing	Thr Cluster Set Anchor Word: thrifty
Tr Blends Set Anchor Word: trike	Tw Blends Set Anchor Word: twirl
Wr Silent Cluster Set Anchor Word: write	Shr Cluster Set Anchor Word: Shred

Blends Dominoes

Blends Dominoes, Set 1
(spr, sn, sm, str, scr, st)

Blends Dominoes, Set 2
(sp, sk, sw, sl, sc)

Blends Dominoes, Set 3
(cl, cr, bl, br, dr)

Blends Dominoes, Set 4
(pl, pr, gl, gr, thr)

Blends Dominoes, Set 5
(tr, tw, fr, fl, wr)

Blends Blingo

Blends Blingo, Set 1
(spr, sn, sm, str, scr, st)

Blends Blingo, Set 2
(sp, sk, sw, sl, sc)

Print these Blingo (Bingo) games on vellum and laminate for durability. Use with the picture cards from the database below. This game is meant to be played one-on-one with a tutor, parent volunteer or peer coach. Small group sets (6) will be available in the future.

Blends Chart

These charts contain the most common blends, consonant digraphs, clusters, and silent clusters (kn) and an anchor picture for each. It is recommended that teachers/parents use this as a reference for beginning and/or struggling writers. If a child hesitates when writing a word with a blend at the beginning, ask him or her to look at the chart. Do they see a picture of something that starts like the word they're trying to spell? Reproduce and laminate these charts to place in writing folders or to use in small writing groups, and/or for tutorial sessions. Enlarge at Kinkos to poster size and read it like you would the Alphabet Chart for automaticity.

Blends Poster Project

This poster project idea came from Jaime, a first grade teacher. She posted it on www.Teachers.net and I asked her if she would mind sharing it on this page. It's a great project to enhance the phonemic awareness of initial blends while working together as a family at home. Let me know what you think so that I can pass the compliments on to Jaime. On reflection, I think this project would work well for lots of other skills! Thanks again, Jaime!

Included in the packet: letter to parents, sample and scoring rubric.