Teaching Resource
Missing Beginnings Worksheet
A worksheet to consolidate initial blend sounds.
The Missing Beginnings Worksheet allows students to use the picture and their prior knowledge of phonics and words to write in the missing initial blend sound.
The blends used include sc, st, dr, pl, cr and sw.
NSW Curriculum alignment
- ENe-6B
Recognises that there are different kinds of spoken texts with specific language features and shows an emerging awareness of some purposes for spoken language
- ENe-8B
Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
- ENe-10C
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
- EN1-5A
Uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letterรขโฌโsound correspondences, to spell familiar words
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELA226
Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends, silent letters and syllabification to spell simple words including compound words
- VCELA168
Identify rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and some sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
- VCELA181
Recognise short vowels, common long vowels and consonant digraphs, and consonant blends
- VCELA204
Manipulate phonemes by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words
- VCELA182
Understand how to spell one and two syllable words with common letter patterns
Australian Curriculum alignment
- 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 )
- ACELA1439
Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken wordsElaborationsrecognising and producing rhyming words when listening to rhyming stories or rhymes, for example รขยยfunnyรขยย and รขยยmoney...
- ACELA1457
Manipulate phonemes in spoken words by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new wordsElaborationsrecognising words that start with a given sound, or end with a given sound, or have a given medial sound...
- 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 รขยยmanรขยย, ...
- 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 รขยย...

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