Phonics Maker: Blends – 120 Phonics Worksheets

Phonics Maker: Blends is a 120-sheet phonics workbook of beginning and ending blend practice for Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, and young ESL learners. It is Book 2 of the Phonics Maker series. Book 1 is CVC Maker.

Pages are organized by blend units (for example bl & cl, fl & gl, tr, st, -nd, and -mp), with real photographs chosen so each word is clear at a glance.

Every page is black and white and ink-friendly — ready for a classroom or home printer.

120 student worksheets

• 12 blend units × 10 activity templates = 120 sheets
• L-blends (bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl), R-blends (br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr), S-blends (sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw), and final blends (-nd, -nt, -nk, -mp, -st, -sk, -lt)
• The same 10 activities appear in the same order for every unit, so children learn the routine once and then apply it to new blends
• Use one 10-page unit as a “blend of the week” pack, or work through the book in order

The 10 activities

• Meet the Blend — say the blend and read each pictured word
• Trace the Word — trace a solid model, then write it on handwriting lines
• Build the Word — cut and glue tiles (the blend is one tile, for example fl + a + g)
• Picture-Word Match — draw a line from each photo to the word
• Read and Color — read the word and color the stars and the frame
• Missing Blend — write the missing beginning or ending blend (a blend bank is on the page)
• Blend Sort — cut out the photos and glue them under the matching blend
• Roll and Read — roll a die and read the matching word
• Sentence Reading — short blend sentences with “I can read this” checkboxes
• Write the Word — Look · Say · Write on handwriting lines

What you get

• A printable PDF for US Letter paper (8.5 × 11 in)
• A printable PDF for A4 paper
• A short cover, a how-to page, and a contents page
• An answer key for Picture-Word Match, Missing Blend, and Blend Sort

The cover, how-to, contents, and answer key are extra pages and are not counted in the 120 student sheets.

Made for young learners and ESL

• Real photographs, not clip art
• US spelling throughout (color, gray, practice, center)
• Short helper words in the sentences: the, a, an, is, on, in, has, and, I, can, see, my, to
• Clean, high-contrast pages with a Name and Date line and a clear blend badge

Printing

Download and unzip the folder. Open the US Letter PDF or the A4 PDF, depending on your paper. Print at 100% (actual size), not “fit to page.” For Build the Word and Blend Sort, single-sided printing is easiest, because those pages have cut-and-glue strips.

Please note

This is a digital download. Nothing will be shipped. For personal and single-classroom use. Please do not share or resell the files.

This is Book 2 of the Phonics Maker series. It is a follow-on to CVC Maker, not a replacement for it.

Richard Sim ©