Solidify skills with these open-ended blending activities.

The 20 sets are grouped by digraphs, L-blends, R-blends, and S-blends. Each set has 4 to 7 beginning sounds and 32 to 34 bases that follow the short/long vowel patterns or contain variant vowel phonemes (underlined to signal their occurrence). The final set in each group contains 3-letter blends, which are especially challenging.

Students line up the blends or digraphs. Then they sound out a base, blend it to the initial sounds until they find a word, and place it there. There are often multiple possibilities since a base may blend to several of the beginning sounds. For this reason, answer keys are not possible.