Segmenting and Blending Mats for Reading Practice

Students will have a blast blending and reading one syllable words with these phonics mats. These phonics mats are easy to differentiate for students learning different phonics skills. By using the cards and sounds that students have already mastered or are currently practicing to build, blend, and read each word. There are recording sheets for students to write the words they create.

What is Included:

• There are 4 letter sound cards for beginning sounds, ending sounds, blends, digraphs, vowel teams and diphthong

• Phonics playdough mats for 2, 3, and 4 sound words.

• Phonics road mats for 2, 3, and 4 sound words.

• Recording sheets for recording real and nonsense words

• Recording sheet for students to write the word, draw a picture of the word, and then to write a sentence with the word.

How to Use:

Print each set of sound cards on different colored card stock. Make all the beginning sounds one color, all the vowels another color, and all the ending sounds a third color. Put each stack of phonics cards face up in the middle of the phonic mats in the right order. Have the student blend and read the word made by the cards. The student will then remove one of the letter cards to create a new word. The students can then record the words on one of the recording sheets. This step is optional.

Where to Use:

• Literacy Center - These mats make the perfect literacy center. By placing the mats and the cards in a center students can practice reading words independently or together.

• Small Group Activities - These mats are great small group tools for a teacher to use with students needing more help or extra practice with reading and blending single syllable words.

The phonics mats cards do need to be printed and cut apart, but the mats, themselves, are no-prep.