Free Consonant Blends Game!

After a little phonics screening this past week, I realized a good chunk of my kiddos were STUCK on blends. They were having trouble reading both beginning and ending consonant blends. I created a fun little game which I introduced on Friday and my kids loved it!

Here it is in action:

The premise:

Each student receives a blends spinner. They take turns spinning and their job is to create a real word using their blend and a word ending from the game board. When they find one, they cover it with their color cube! Once all the boxes are covered (which takes quite a while), students count their cubes up and see who has the most! While they are trying to find a real word, they are practicing a bunch of nonsense blend words along the way!

I uploaded the file to googledocs so I thought I would share it for free!

Just click below to grab it:

I am also prepping a bunch of activities from my Tricky Sticky Blends pack to help my struggling readers this week!

Hoping everyone has a great weekend :) I am enjoying this 40 degree weather here in Boston, which believe it or not, feels really, really warm!

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Tricky & Sticky Blends!

Mornin' folks!

Yesterday I started tutoring one of my kids and I was so excited to see him! It's only been 2 weeks since we've been out of school, but with everything going on with my job, seeing his sweet little face was exactly what I needed!

I love tutoring my own kids because I already know exactly where they are and what they need to work on. This little guy is stuck on blends!

We will start next week with a smaller version of this adorable BLENDer that's been poppin' up all over pinterest.

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And since my little tutoring session was just what I needed to get out of my summer-teacher slump, I created this little blends packet that we will do together:

 These are just some of the activities in the packet. For more info about it just click the picture below:

 Until next time!

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