Phonics Worksheets for Initial and Final Blends

Do you need some ways for students to practice reading, writing, spelling, and working with blends? These phonics worksheets for initial and final blends are great for first-grade literacy centers, homework, reading small groups and more! Students read and write a variety of blends through fill-in-the-blank, cut and paste, and more!

The blends worksheets include words with short vowels, digraphs, and words with CK, ANG, UNG, and ING. These are a great resource to provide extra practice with reading and writing words with blends.

What are Included in the Blends Worksheets?

The blends worksheets are grouped by initial and final blends. Also available are mixed sets and BUNDLES.

• Final Blends
• L-Blends
• R-Blends
• S-Blends & TW Blends
• Mixed Initial Blends
• Mixed Initial & Final Blends
• Final Consonant CK
• Words with NG & NK

The blends worksheets can also be printed at a reduced size and can be used for interactive notebooks.  This Phonics Interactive Notebook blog post will give you ideas on how to move beyond the worksheet into a phonics notebook.

There are 18 worksheet templates with multiple versions of most templates within each section. Some numbers are missing. These worksheets appear in the CVC Short Vowels or Digraph sets but have been removed for the blends set.

The 18 templates are:

1. Color the Picture
2. #2 has been removed from the Blends Set
3. Read, Trace, Write
4. Read, Write, Color
5. Spell & Write
6. Match & Write
7. Circle the Word
8. Read and Check
9. Write Two Times
10. Read, Match, Write
11. Sentence Scramble Cut & Paste
12. Write a Sentence
13. Picture Sort
14. Word Sort
15. Write by Word Family
16. Cut & Paste Onset Rime
17. Cut. Paste. Write.
18. Cut & Paste Onset & Rime Write
19. #19 has been removed from the Blends Set
20. Write Sentences

Examples of Each Blends Worksheet Page

The 18 Blends Worksheets are repeated in each of the individual sets and the mixed sets. There are often multiple pages of each worksheet in each set.

The photographs below come from different sets. I’ve noted on each photograph the set where you can find that page. While many of the worksheets are the same the previous levels (CVC Short Vowels & Digraph), I have also increased the complexity of some of the worksheets, changed the formatting, and included more words.

• Final Blends
• L-Blends
• R-Blends
• S-Blends & TW Blends
• Mixed Initial Blends
• Mixed Initial & Final Blends
• Final Consonant CK
• Words with NG & NK

Many of the worksheets utilize the blending cues available on our Blending Cards. Blending cues are dots to segment the word, dotted lines to blend the word, and a large arrow to “read it fast”.

Students can use the blending cues to read the word, then do the work on the worksheets. If you’re already using the Blending Cards, these worksheets are a great accompaniment.

#1 Color the Picture

On this first worksheet, students read the word using the blending cues. They then color the picture that matches the word.

After students complete the worksheet, they could cut it out in strips and boxes and create flash cards with the words and pictures.

#3 Read, Trace, Write

This worksheet has students read the word using the blending cues, then trace and write the word.

#4 Read, Write, Color

This blends phonics worksheet is similar to the first one; however, now students are asked to write the sounds of each word as well as read and color the image.  Double consonants and digraphs take up one space because they make one sound together.

#5 Spell & Write

On this worksheet, students look at the picture, segment the word, circling the letters that make the word. Students then write the word on the blank space.

#6 Match & Write

This is a match and write worksheet where students look at the picture and then find it within the given word.

#7 Circle the Word

This worksheet asks students to circle the word that matches the picture from a list of three words. 

This worksheet makes a great interactive notebook activity when cut up.  Students can take one square, circle the word, and glue it in their notebook. 

#8 Read and Check

This blends worksheet is a bit more complicated and great for your more advanced readers.  It asks students to read and check the sentence that goes with the picture.

#9 Write Two Times

On this worksheet, students write the word two times.

#10 Read, Match Write

On this worksheet, students read the sentence and figure out which word is missing, given the list of words.  Students write the missing word in the blank space.

#11 Sentence Scramble Cut & Paste

For this worksheet, students are presented with four to seven words that make a sentence. Each row has its own set of words. Students cut apart the words and create the sentence.

If students have difficulty with this task, give them some hints, like the period ends the sentence and the sentence starts with a capital letter.

#12 Write a Sentence

This worksheet is similar to the above worksheet, except instead of a cut and paste, students are asked to write the sentence, given the four to seven words.

#13 Picture Sort

This is a traditional picture sort. Students say the word in the picture and determine the word family that matches.

There are more picture sorts in the individual blends sets than the mixed sets. Since word and picture sorts are generally grouped by similar sounds, the sorts in the mixed sets would be a repeat of the sorts in the individual sets.

#14 Word Sort

This is similar to a traditional word sort but includes blending cues to help students read the words.

This is another sheet that would be good for interactive notebooks.  Cut the columns and glue them down to a page in a notebook. Students sort and glue the words in the appropriate columns.

#15 Write by Word Family

This is another worksheet that emphasizes word families. On it, students write the words that go along with the word family. The worksheets for this section change depending on whether the focus is on an initial or final blend.

#16 Cut & Paste Onset & Rime

This worksheet is similar to the above, but with picture cues and a cut and paste component. The image you see below is for L-Blends, which is an initial blends set. The final blends set has the cut and paste option on the rime portion of the word. The initial and final mixed set has both!

#17 Cut. Paste. Write.

This blends worksheet is a cut and paste where students match the word. Students then write the word on the blank space.

#18 Cut & Paste Onset & Rime. Write.

On this worksheet, students match the onset and rime and then write the word.

#20 Write Sentences

I threw this worksheet in the resource for your more advanced students who need practice with blends, but enjoy a more creative task. On this worksheet, students write four sentences.

Many of the blends phonics worksheets are similar with some small tweaks. One worksheet may ask students to match a word and another may ask them to write it.

Providing so many different options gives plenty of choices, variety, and practice with reading and writing blends.

How to Purchase the Digraph Phonics Worksheets

The Blends Phonics Worksheets can be purchased on Teachers Pay Teachers. They can be purchased in a bundle or individually via the links below.

• Final Blends
• L-Blends
• R-Blends
• S-Blends & TW Blends
• Mixed Initial Blends
• Mixed Initial & Final Blends
• Final Consonant CK
• Words with NG & NK

Other Back-to-Basics Phonics Worksheets

You can also purchase these other phonics worksheet sets:

• Short A Phonics Worksheets
• Short I Phonics Worksheets
• Short O Phonics Worksheets
• Short U Phonics Worksheets
• Short E Phonics Worksheets
• Mixed CVC Vowels Phonics Worksheets
• Just the Sentences – CVC Sentence Worksheets
• Just the Word Sorts – CVC Word Sort Worksheets
• CVC BUNDLE with other CVC Phonics Resources
• VCE BUNDLE
• VCE A
• VCE I
• VCE O
• VCE U

Phonics Interactive Notebook Activities

If you’re interested in using these worksheets in an interactive notebook format, see this blog post for details on how to do that.