Beginning Blends: Complete the Sentences
Choose from three beginning blends to complete each of seven sentence words, checking both pronunciation and meaning.
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- Phonics, Language Development, ELA
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- Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
- Ontario expectations
- B2.4
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Choose from three beginning blends to complete each of seven sentence words, checking both pronunciation and meaning.
- Seven sentence items with incomplete words Three beginning-blend options per item Printed word remainders for blending
Curriculum reference — Ontario: Initial blending in context supports early regular-word decoding. Selected skills only; reference stage is not an overall reading age, complete curriculum coverage, or an automatic recommendation for every learner.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Use sentence meaning to anticipate a missing word
- Combine a beginning blend with a printed word ending
- Reject a blend that fails phonically or semantically
Teaching tips
- Read the sentence with the blank first and predict the whole word before examining options.
- Blend each candidate aloud with the printed remainder and use context as the final check.
Skills covered
- Consonant-blend decoding — clusters are attached to word remainders.
- Context use — sentence meaning narrows the possible completion.
- Word verification — phonics and semantics must agree.
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Ontario curriculum
Ontario curriculum expectations
Ontario expectations
Ontario expectations
- B2.4 — use phonics knowledge and phonemic blending to read words, and phonemic segmentation to spell phonetically regular words, in isolation and various text contexts
Core concepts
Core concepts
- Beginning blends
- Sentence context
- Word completion
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