More About This Resource
These differentiated blends & digraphs decodable sentence building activities give kindergarten, first and second grade students practice reading and writing words that contain targeted phonics skills. This resource is the perfect extension activity to use with my Decodable Passages bundle and can be used for student review, independent work, or as a literacy center!
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Each sentence is a phonics-based controlled text sentence that contains target phonics skill words, previously taught phonics skill words and irregular high-frequency words. The science of reading shows us that the connection between what our students learn in phonics and what they read & write is imperative for building a strong foundation in early reading!
After building each sentence with word cards, students write the sentence on their printable. They then use the student self-check to edit for accuracy. Students will also have the opportunity to practice their reading fluency by reading to themselves or a friend.
This resource contains the following options in order for the teacher to easily differentiate based on student needs:
- 2 versions of each printable recording sheet: One version has a sentence stem that requires the student to fill in the blank with a target phonics skill word. The other version does not have a sentence stem and instead requires the student to write the entire sentence.
- 2 versions of sentence building word cards: Large word cards are perfect to pair with a pocket chart and small cards can be used at a small group table or student desk.
Included in this resource: ***See Preview File***
- master sentences list for the teacher
- 69 phonics-based controlled sentences
- 23 recording sheets (2 differentiated versions of each for a total of 46)
- 69 sets of sentence building word cards (2 differentiated versions of each)
- teacher tips for use
- 69 digital sentence building Google Slides
- PNG backgrounds included for Seesaw (this is NOT a premade Seesaw activity)
Phonics skills included:
- L blends
- S blends
- R blends
- Final m/n blends
- Final l blends
- Final s blends
- Final t blends
- Three letter blends
- review
Sara B. –
Love the Sentence Building resources! My EAL students love them and are super beneficial, thank you!!
Ashleigh M G. –
Was able to utilize with a student that I tutored.
Teach Live Grow –
It i takes time to train the kids to play and build sentences that make sense but once they have the routine these really helped them with fluency !
Melanie C. –
My students loved using this resource! They were engaged in the resource and had no trouble getting started. It didn’t take much time to prepare this resource, so it was easy for me to use.
Danielle F. –
I’ve used this a lot with my struggling readers and they really enjoy using it. They keep asking me when they can do it again!
Marianne F. –
My students loved using this during centers. It gave them great practice with building sentences.
Leticia P. –
I love all my products from Mrs. Winter’s Bliss. After students work on sounds with me, they complete these on their own with their group members. They are easy to understand and quick to complete. Perfect to be done as a quick check for understanding!
Kayla Leonard –
Absolutely wonderful! I use in small group and whole group. Great way to help with differentiation. I love that it is actually decodable. A wonderful resource to help students struggling with forming sentences.
Lindsey N. –
These were used in small groups and were a great resource for independent practice!
Judy H. –
I teach mixed age ELA, and this resource has been very engaging! Students can use independently, whole group and small group.
Lindsay Sanford –
This is an awesome ELA center to help practice decoding and encoding skills! I plan to use it again this year
Reading in First Class –
My students love completing these activities during our literacy centers! They are the perfect challenge for all of my students and really require them to think carefully about sentences to get them to make sense!
k.fields (verified owner) –
Great for my writing center, and it also has my students writing complete sentences in other writing activities.
Heather Andrews (verified owner) –
I love this resource! I love all the resources I have bought here. They are perfect for my grade 2/3 class where students have several gaps in their learning. It is also perfect for my ELL students who are learning English and learning how to write. The activities are scaffolded nicely so they can work independently from building and copying to writing with guided support on the resource and then to independent writing! It helps the students feel proud of their progress! They are super engaged.
jenoleary10 (verified owner) –
Fantastic four small group instruction, and review of skills at centers!
Nichole W. –
My students loved this additional center that worked on a newly learned phonics skill. Being able to practice in an independent way is great.
Rachel S. –
I loved using this as a small group work activity during my reading block
Jenna Tomkins (verified owner) –
Love this for a center in my reading rotations! I also use it for my RTI group and it has been great!
Heather G. –
Great practice not only in decoding, but also in how to formulate a sentence.
MEGAN H. –
Thank you! My students love doing this in literacy work stations.