Help build decoding skills and reading fluency with these CVC Word Blending Cards. Practice segmenting and blending phonemes with this fun hands-on activity. These Drive and Blend cards provide a visual, kinesthetic, and tactile way to practice blending and segmenting the sounds in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words.

Develop orthographic mapping skills.

Students drive a toy car along the reading road to segment and blend each CVC word. As they practice, they will build their reading fluency and drive a little faster each time.

The cards help students identify and blend the beginning, middle, and ending sounds in CVC words. The road visuals are not only engaging, but they help students with directionality too!

Being able to easily segment CVC words and blend sounds is crucial for successful decoding and reading fluency.

These CVC Word Blending Cards are perfect for

• hands-on literacy investigation areas

• literacy centers

• small group literacy rotations

• reading stations

• reading intervention

• word work

• busy bags

• homework

• early finishers

• morning tubs

• or for informing your assessment grades

This engaging decoding activity is one of the most requested in our class.

If you want to make your phoneme blending activities interactive, engaging, and age-appropriate for kindergarten students, you really need to be using movement, manipulatives, and games. These Phoneme Blending Activities will help you do just that.

4 DIFFERENTIATED SETS to meet the diverse needs of your students.

• Use the picture card set to focus on segmenting CVC words. Students identify the picture and then drive their car on the road, stopping in each road box to segment the word into 3 sounds.

• Use the letter card set to focus on blending sounds and reading CVC words. Have the students place a toy car on GO, and as they drive from left to right, blend the 3 sounds to decode and read the CVC word. These cards are best for CVC word decoding practice and building fluency.

• BONUS self-correcting cards are also included. Students blend the phonemes to decode the CVC word and then flip the card over. They can check their accuracy because the picture on the back of each card make this activity self-checking.

• Use the CVC word card set with matching pictures to support your beginning readers. These cards are useful for students needing a visual picture prompt. They will also help students self-check their decoding.

THIS SET CONTAINS:

• 100 CVC Drive and Blend Picture Cards

• 160 CVC Drive and Blend Letter Cards

• 100 CVC Drive and Blend Self-correcting Word Cards

• 100 CVC Drive and Blend Word Cards with a supporting picture

• 8 printable cars

• A Drive and Blend Learning Center Header Poster

• 3 Learning Prompts

• 4 “I can” statements to print and display.

• 4 recording sheets (A5 size) to use on mini clipboards

• Tile printing instructions

• Play-based learning ideas

100 CVC Picture Cards

• 26 for short a

• 18 for short e

• 16 for short i

• 16 for short o

• 26 for short u

160 CVC Letter Cards

• 32 for short a

• 18 for short e

• 22 for short i

• 18 for short o

• 20 for short u

100 Self-correcting CVC Word Cards

• 26 for short a

• 18 for short e

• 16 for short i

• 16 for short o

• 26 for short u

100 CVC Word Cards with a supporting picture

• 26 for short a

• 18 for short e

• 16 for short i

• 16 for short o

• 26 for short u

Easy Prep! Just print and laminate for a set of blending cards you can use over and over.

BOTH Australian and American spelling included.

I use matchbox sized cars with this activity and prefer larger A4-sized cards. If you have smaller cars and want to save on paper, instructions are included for you to tile print the cards.