Teaching Resource

Initial Blends Match-Up Activity

In English Phonics

PDF | PDF|Grades: 1 - 2

A set of initial blends game cards.

Print, laminate and cut out the pictures and word cards.

You may like to use these cards for a number of different activities or classroom games such as:

In small groups, students need to match each picture with its word. Next, with a whiteboard marker, they must write in the missing blends.
In small groups, students play memory, matching the picture with its word.
In small groups, students play snap, matching the picture with its word.
Print out the the black and white version (2 to a page). Students may then cut and paste, matching the picture with its word in their workbooks.

NSW Curriculum alignment

EN1-5A
Uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letterâ€“sound correspondences, to spell familiar words
In English Stage 1 A. Communicate through speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing and representing

Victorian Curriculum alignment

VCELA181
Recognise short vowels, common long vowels and consonant digraphs, and consonant blends
In English Level 1 Reading and Viewing Language
VCELA182
Understand how to spell one and two syllable words with common letter patterns
In English Level 1 Reading and Viewing Language
VCELA226
Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends, silent letters and syllabification to spell simple words including compound words
In English Level 2 Writing Language

Australian Curriculum alignment

ACELA1458
Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blends when writing, and blend these to read single syllable wordsElaborationsusing knowledge of letters and sounds to write words with short vowels, for example âmanâ, ...
In English Year 1 Language Phonics and word knowledge
ACELA1471
Understand how to use knowledge of digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words including some compound wordsElaborationsusing knowledge of known words to spell unknown words, for example using the word â...
In English Year 2 Language Phonics and word knowledge
ACELA1778
Understand how to spell one and two syllable words with common letter patternsElaborationswriting one-syllable words containing known blends, for example 'bl' and 'st' (Skills: Literacy)(View this topic on www.australiancurriculum.edu.au )
In English Year 1 Language Phonics and word knowledge

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