61 worksheets
61 photocopiable worksheets to help children explore spelling patterns at the beginning, middle and end of words. They include exercises on consonant blends, long vowel sounds and split digraphs. Designed to be used alongside the Phonics Teacher’s Guide, these copymasters are ideal for teaching key blends and digraphs.
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How to use this book The Blends and Digraphs Copymasters are designed to consolidate and extend the teaching content of the Letterland Phonics Teacher’s Guide. They support class or group work on common beginnings and endings of words, adjacent consonants, the Silent Magic e concept and digraphs and trigraphs. All the words in the exercises are decodable, matched to the Letterland Phonics Teacher’s Guide teaching order. The Copymasters provide activities for various levels of attainment. They can also be used as a stepping-stone towards more open-ended tasks. For example, once children have completed the activities on a sheet, you may like to ask them to make up their own sentences using some of the words they have just learned about. Or see how many words of the same structure they can find and decode in a book, magazine or newspaper. In addition, the copymasters can be used as a valuable diagnostic tool.
The range of skills covered includes: • • • • • • • • •
phonemic awareness decoding/encoding skills illustrating sounds (Picture Coding) finding rhyming words Word Building reading for meaning sentence completion using words in context when writing open-ended sentence writing.
These Copymasters provide an excellent resource for individual or group work. They are also useful as an activity for children working with parents or helpers. The Letterland Phonics Teacher’s Guide is the recommended starting point for introducing the spelling patterns featured here. You could plan your teaching as follows: • Decide on which letter combination you are going to teach and work through the suggested activities in the Phonics Teacher’s Guide. • Listen to the appropriate song on the Blends & Digraphs Songs CD or the Story Phonics software when studying a new sound. • Give out copies of the relevant copymaster to a group or the whole class. • Go over the instructions on the copymaster, exaggerating the sound being studied when it appears in some of the example words. Encourage the children to re-read the instructions carefully and aim to master all the instruction vocabulary as soon as possible so they can work through the sheets independently. • During another group session go over the main teaching points to assess understanding. • Pupil Record Sheets are provided on page 2 and 3 if you want to keep a record of individual progress, aiding assessment.
Pupil Record Sheet Name: Copymaster
Spelling Pattern
Shape
As in the word... page ref.
Consonant blends with s
sc
scab
1
sk
skip
1
sl
slug
2
sp
spot
2
st
stuck
2, 3
sw
swim
3
sm
smash
4
sn
snap
4
bl
block
6
cl
clock
6
fl
flag
7
gl
glad
7
pl
plug
8
sl
slug
8
br
brick
9
cr
crab
9
dr
drip
10
fr
frog
10
gr
grin
11
pr
press
11
tr
track
11
ck
duck
12
ff
puff
13
ll
bell
13
ss
guess
13
ch
chip
14
ng
ring
15
sh
shop
16
th
that
17
th
thing
18
ph
phone
19
wh
when, who
20
wr
write
21
ed
skated, smiled, hoped
22
Consonant blends with l
Consonant blends with r
Consonant sounds
Consonant digraphs
Endings
ed, ing
23
ed, ing
24
Can read some (s)/ most (m) words with this phoneme
Pupil Record Sheet Name: Copymaster
Spelling Pattern
Shape
As in the word... page ref.
Long ā
a_e
make
25
ai
rain
26
ay
say
27
Reviewing Long ā Long ē
28
e_e
these
29
ee
bee
30
ea
sea
31
y
baby
32
Reviewing Long ē Long ī
33
i_e
like
34
ie
tie
35
y
my
36
igh
night
37
Reviewing Long ī Long ō
38
o_e
home
39
oa
boat
40
ow
show
41
Reviewing Long ō Long ū
42
u_e
cube
43
oo
moon
44
ew
grew, few
45
ue
blue
46
Reviewing Long ū r-controlled
Further spellings
47
ar
farm
48
or
for
49
ir
girl
50
ur
fur
51
er
her
52
air, ear
fair, year
53
ow
how
54
ou
out
55
oy
boy
56
oi
coin
57
oo, u
book, put
58
aw, au
saw, cause
59
all
ball
60
o
son
61
Can read some (s)/ most (m) words with this phoneme
Name:
Date:
Consonant blends with s 1 Picture Code
ab
and
. Then say the words.
skin skip scan scam skid skill
2 Now write three
sc words on the scarecrow.
3 Cross out the words that do not fit in this sentence.
scam skid! He has a on his scab skin! 4
Blends & Digraphs Copymasters Š Letterland International Ltd.
Name:
Date:
Consonant blends with s
sl, sp or st. Then colour the sl words red, the sp words blue and the st words yellow.
1 Fill in the spaces with
_ _ ip
_ _ ot
_ _ uck
_ _ op
_ _ am
_ _ in
_ _ ep
_ _ ell
2 Fill in the spaces using these words.
stamp
sting
stick
stand
Lick the _ _ _ _ _ , Sam, I will _ _ _ _ _ it on. Let’s not _ _ _ _ _ still and get a bad _ _ _ _ _! 3 Sort the words in the basket into the correct boxes. spill slush sled slick sp speck un
5
Blends & Digraphs Copymasters Š Letterland International Ltd.
Name:
Date:
Consonant blends with s 1 Say the words. Then Picture Code
op just
.
stick stiff
fast trust
rest dentist
2 Cross out the word that does not fit in each sentence.
Swish, swish, I am
I like
swelling
stinging. swinging.
so much.
swimming 3 Picture Code each
. Then write the sentence again.
Swift swimming in a pond. 6
Blends & Digraphs Copymasters Š Letterland International Ltd.
Name:
Date:
Consonant blends with s 1 Picture Code
small smack
and
in these words.
smog snag smell snob
snap
2 Fill in the spaces with these words.
snack
sniffing
smells
I am _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ this _ _ _ _ _. It _ _ _ _ _ _ strong. 3 Sort the words on Sam’s path into the correct boxes.
snag
smock
smash small 7
snug snap
Blends & Digraphs Copymasters Š Letterland International Ltd.
Name:
Date:
Consonant blends with l 1 Read these words. Make the
black
bl words blue.
cloth
bless
class
club
blush
2 Write four words beginning with
blink
cliff
cl in the clouds.
3 Choose the correct letters to complete each word.
cl
bl
_ _ anket
gl
cl
_ _ ock 8
cl
sl
_ _ ap
Blends & Digraphs Copymasters Š Letterland International Ltd.
Name:
Date:
Consonant blends with l 1 Picture Code
and
. Then add
fl
or
gl to complete the words.
fl
__ad
__ag
__um
gl
__op
__ass
__ash gl
fl
2 Write the words on the flags.
Write the words on the gloves.
3 Choose the correct letters to complete each word.
bl
fl
_ _ ock
gl
pl
_ _ ass 9
gl
fl
_ _ ap
Blends & Digraphs Copymasters Š Letterland International Ltd.
Name:
Date:
Consonant blends with l
pl or sl to complete the words. Now colour the pl balloons red and the sl balloons yellow.
1 Add
_ _ ip
_ _ ap
_ _ an
_ _ ush
_ _ ant
_ _ um
2 Finish the sentence by writing in the correct words.
slug plan
plug slips
He _____ on a _ _ _ _ ! 3 Choose the correct letters to complete each word.
fl
sl
_ _ ed
sl
pl bl
_ _ ug 10
sl
_ _ ing
Blends & Digraphs Copymasters Š Letterland International Ltd.
Name:
Date:
Consonant blends with r 1 Read these words. Picture Code the
brick
2 Now write four
crash
crack
cram
words.
bring
brag
brush
crisps
br words on the bread.
3 Write the correct sentence under each picture.
I am crunching crisps. I am brushing.
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Blends & Digraphs Copymasters Š Letterland International Ltd.