Blending Words – Student Reference Cards
These Blending Words Student Reference Cards give students a clear and simple understanding that when we blend words, we need to say each phoneme rather than individual letters.
These cards can be sent home to parents or kept in student workbooks for easy reference.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to use vowel sounds, consonant blends and digraphs when writing and reading one- and two-syllable words.
- We are learning to understand that a letter can represent more than one sound, e.g. cat, swan, ball, fast etc. and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound.
- We are learning to use vowel sounds, consonant digraphs and blends when writing and reading single syllable words.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E1LY11
9
Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs to write words, and blend these to read one- and two-syllable words
AC9E1LY12
9
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
ACELA1458
8.4
Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blends when writing, and blend these to read single syllable words
ACELA1459
8.4
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
EN1-4A
old
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
EN1-PHOKW-01
new
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
EN1-SPELL-01
new
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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