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L- Blends Activity - Color By Code

A single worksheet asks students to fill nine word stems with fl, gl, pl, or cl and then color each finished word by a four-color key.
Grades
Preschool–3, Elementary
Pages
1
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Updated Jul 26, 2025

Subject
Language Development, ELA, ESL, Phonics, Holiday & Seasonal, Holidays, Back To School, Months, August, September
Topic
l bends, l blend
Resource types
Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets, Coloring Pages, Teacher Tools, Assessments, Lesson Plans, Activities, Centers
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This fun and engaging phonics activity is designed to help young learners practice identifying and writing L blends: fl, cl, gl, and pl. Students look at each picture, decide which blend belongs at the beginning of the word, write it in, and then color the picture according to the code. It’s a great way to combine phonics practice with a bit of coloring fun!

How to Use:

  • Perfect for literacy centers, independent work, or morning tubs

  • Easy to assign for homework or early finishers

  • Great for small group instruction or intervention time

Why Teachers Love It:

  • Reinforces L blends in a hands-on, interactive way

  • Builds phonics and fine motor skills at the same time

  • Keeps students focused and engaged through coloring

  • Super simple to prep, just print and go!

This resource is ideal for kindergarten and first grade students learning blends. It's both fun and effective, your students won’t even realize how much they’re learning!

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify and write the correct initial l-blend (fl, gl, pl, or cl) to complete a word.

  • Match each finished word to its color under the key — fl green, gl red, pl blue, cl yellow — and shade it accordingly.

Teaching tips

  • Read the key aloud with the class first — fl, gl, pl and cl each own one color — because a student who picks the wrong blend also shades the word the wrong color.

  • Have green, red, blue and yellow available before handing the page out; those are the four colors the l-blend key assigns, in the order fl, gl, pl, cl.

Skills covered

  • Initial consonant-blend decoding — students determine which of four l-blends (fl, gl, pl, cl) correctly completes each word stem.

  • Color-code following — the key converts each blend choice into a color, so a finished page shows at a glance which words a student read as gl and which as cl.

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