Description
Looking for engaging and hands-on consonant blends and digraphs center activities and games to help teach phonics skills? This pack includes 11 simple and fun phonics activities to practice blending, decoding, and spelling words with consonant blends (L- blends, R- blends, S- blends) and digraphs (sh, th, ch, wh, ph, and ck).
Practice blends and digraphs with your students in a whole group or small group setting with these interactive phonics center games and activities. They are easy for Kindergarten or First Grade students to play together in a group or work independently to practice previously learned phonics skills.
Here's what you'll get:
- Consonant Blends and Digraphs Center activities including:
- Picture Sort
- Memory Match
- Puzzles
- Clip Cards Wheels
- Matching Mats
- Dry Erase Writing Cards
- Sensory Bin
- Magnet Mats
- Play Dough Mats
- Spin and Cover
- Fluency Roll and Read
All of these consonant blends and digraphs center activities can be printed in color or black and white. Each activity or game has step-by-step printable directions with in-action pictures, as well as a picture answer key so you know what all the pictures are!
Consonant Blends
•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
Digraphs
•th, sh, ch, wh, ph, -ck
Using Hands-on Activities during Centers
Each center activity was designed to add fine motor practice, hands-on learning, and visual discrimination to help your students practice various phonics and phonemic awareness skills.
A hands-on activity is any activity where children are using their hands to learn. “Hands-on activities let the students' minds grow and learn based on the experiences and the environment they are exposed to. ELLs learn while discussing, investigating, creating, and discovering with other students. As the students become familiar with the subject they are learning, they begin to make decisions, requiring less teacher support and allowing more interactive learning experiences to occur (Cooperstein & Kocevar-Weidinger, 2004).”
Hands-on activities are the number one activity that I always use in my ELA centers for this very reason. Plus, hands-on activities are proven to be highly engaging, strengthen fine motor skills, and hold students attention longer than other activities. Read more about using hands-on, tactile activities here: How to Use Hands-On Activities for ELA Centers.
Using Interactive Games during Centers
As teachers, we are always trying to find engaging phonics games to play during ELA centers. Games are a great way to encourage students to work as a team, taking turns, problem-solving, and encouraging each other. By playing these games they won't even realize they are learning!
Your students will love practicing consonant blends and digraphs with these highly engaging and fun phonics centers. Check out how I use some of these centers here: Four Engaging Phonics Games to Play in Centers
Simple, yet engaging! The variety of these low-prep centers allow you to use these throughout the year to continually review those phonics skills. You can also use these centers as a whole group lesson activity, during small groups, as an early finisher task, or morning work.
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Purchase the Kindergarten Consonant Blends and Digraphs Phonics Unit to get these 11 center activities, Blends and Digraphs Worksheets pack, PLUS 5 weeks of Consonant Blends and Digraphs lesson plans, anchor charts, assessments, and more! Also available for First Grade teachers!
Also available for First Grade Teachers here (includes ending blends and digraphs!)
•First Grade Beginning and Ending Digraphs Phonics Unit
•First Grade Beginning and Ending Consonant Blends Phonics Unit
These centers are part of the SFK Kindergarten Phonics Curriculum– a yearlong done-for-you phonics bundle that includes lesson plans, phonemic awareness warm-ups, centers, worksheets, assessments, teaching aids, anchor charts, and more! Learn more about the Phonics Curriculum here.
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I've been struggling with how to help my students with blends and this resource has been amazing! It gives students multiple ways to practice these skills and still have fun. Thanks!” -Amanda M.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This has made planning and implementing independent literacy centers in my classroom a breeze! The kids have loved the variety of ways to practice their blends. Thank you!” -Jennifer
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My students loved using these resources! It is so colorful and they were entertained the whole time! Thank you so much!” -Zuluema
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Can I give this any higher marks and reviews? What a great way to practice blends and digraphs. I have kids watching the group who uses these green with envy who cannot wait for their turn.” -Heidi C.
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