Free I Spy Beginning Blends Printable: L Blends, S Blends, R Blends
There are many ways to work on blends, and I spy is a fun way for kids to read the blend and find beginning blend words.
You have a mix of beginning blends for l blends, r blends, and s blends. And I spy is a great way to work on those words.
The blend I spy printable is an easy no-prep blend printable that you just have to print and use.
The I Spy Beginning Blends Printable is a great addition to the blends printables on the site.
The I Spy Beginning Blends Printable is part of my subscriber library. You can subscribe to the newsletter and get access to the password there. You will find it in the blends section on the subscriber freebie page.
What is a blend?
A blend is when two or more consonants are blended together, but the letters in blends all make a separate sound.
Bl would be an example of the consonant blend. So, the word blender has a blend of bl.
You sound out b and l sounds in the word.
Beginning blend examples are: bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr, pl, pr, sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, tr.
I Spy Beginning Blends Printable
The I Spy Beginning Blends Printable has a search for beginning blends with a page with l blends, r blends, and s blends.
You will find those blends in the blends I spy printable. You can see one of the pages below. You have a mix of pictures that all start with a blend and a list of blend words to find.
Things to use with the Blends I Spy Printable Printable
I always get asked what we used with the blends I spy printables. So I have a list here of all the items from the post and mentioned.
We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the links we may earn a small commission.
- printer
- white copy paper
- crayons
- colored pencils
- dot marker or bingo daubers
- sheet protectors
- dry erase markers
- clear glass gems
- clear counters
- mini erasers
- blends bookmarks easy blend lists
Ways to Use the Blends I Spy Printable
You are doing to see a few ways that we have used the blends I spy worksheets.
Review the Blends Words on each Blend I Spy List
If you are just starting out with blends you might want to review the blend word list on each page. They will have a mix of the different blend words. You could also look at the blends on the words on the list.
L Blend Words: block, planet, clock, glue, float, clothes, glove, blender, sled
R Blend Words: dragon, fruit, crane, price, bread, tractor, graph, grapes, frog
S Blend Words: snake, space, scarf, steps, smile swan, ski, stamp, spider
Color the Beginning Blends on the List
You can go down the list of blend words and color the matching blends. It makes a super simple and fun blends review for kids. You will have one type of beginning blend on each page. So you can work on the L blends, r blends, and s blends individually.
Find Other Blends Words with Bookmarks
You can use the blends bookmarks to find other pictures that have that same beginning blends. Each blend has three pictures on the page for kids to find.
So go through the lists of blend words on the bookmarks and use them to help kids find more blend words.
Dot Marker the Beginning Blends on the List
You can use a dot marker to dot the pictures that match the blends words. Dot markers are simple and easy to use and might be quicker than coloring for some kids.
If you do this in a learning center you can have kids tell you what blend is in the word when they are dotting the pictures. So they see the word frog and then tell you it is a FR blend word.
Reuse the Blends I Spy Printable
You can reuse the pages by putting them in sheet protectors and using dry erase markers
Item to Help Learn Blends
Meet the Phonics – Blends – Easy Reader Books has an easy reader book for each blend.
Meet the Phonics – Blends is a fun video about blends.
Stop, Drop, and Flop in the Slop: A Short Vowel Sounds Book with Consonant Blends is another book that helps you see the blends for one type on the page and read about it.
More Blends I Spy Printables
If you are looking for more blends I spy printables you can check out the I Spy Blends Selling Set. It has 60 pages of blends printables with 2 pages for each blend plus mixed review pages.
What you will find in the Free Blends I Spy Printable
- 3 Blends I Spy no-prep printables
- 1 L Blends Page
- 1 R Blends Page
- 1 S Blends Page
- 3 pages
Beginning Blends I Spy Picture & Words Selling Set
You have a fun blends I spy that has just a single blend and a mix of beginning blends. It has all the beginning blends in the set.
What you will find in the Beginning Blends I Spy Picture & Words
- 2 pages for each blend
- 5 mixed blended pages for the l blends only, r blends only, and s blends only
- It has the following beginning blends: bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr, pl, pr, sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, & tr.
- 60 pages
- Price: $4
Check out these Blends Printables
Blends Wall Cards: Beginning Sound Consonant Blends is a great way to work on beginning blends.
Blends Bookmarks have short vowel blends and long vowel blend options. These are a fun beginning blends word lists. You can use it with first grade (ages 6 to 7) and second grade (ages 7 to 8).
Blends Word Ladders: Beginning Sounds is a learning ladder that you learn to spell words with the blend. You can use to make the blends on your Beginning Blends I Spy lists.
Blends Puzzles: Bl-, Br-, Cl-, Cr- are great for building words with a matching picture. You can see the letters for the word and the picture that matches it. You have two puzzles for each blend.
Check out all the fun Blends Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
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