More About This Resource
This is a free sample of my Decodable Sentence Building Activities. These differentiated 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!
⭐️ ⭐️ This freebie is a sample of my resource: DECODABLE SENTENCE BUILDERS ⭐️ ⭐️
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 the FULL RESOURCE:
- master sentences list for the teacher
- 210 phonics-based controlled sentences
- 74 recording sheets (2 differentiated versions of each for a total of 24)
- 210 sets of sentence building word cards (2 differentiated versions of each)
- teacher tips for use
- 210 digital sentence building Google Slides
Phonics skills included in the FULL RESOURCE:
- Short a
- Short e
- Short i
- Short o
- Short u
- L blends
- S blends
- R blends
- Final m/n blends
- Final l blends
- Final s blends
- Final t blends
- Three letter blends
- a_e
- i_e
- o_e
- u_e
- e_e
- Open syllable e
- Open syllable i
- Open syllable o
- Long a: ai, ay
- Long e: ee, ea
- Long o: oa, ow
- Long i: _y
- Long i: igh
- Long u: ew, ue
- R-controlled ar
- R-controlled er
- R-controlled ir
- R-controlled ur
- R-controlled or
- R-controlled or, ore
- R-controlled are, air, ear
- Short oo
- Long oo
- Diphthong ow
- Diphthong ou
- Diphthong oi
- Diphthong oy
- Variant vowel au/aw
- Long i and long o: (i)nd, (o)ld, (i)ld
- Long i and long o: ie, oe
- Long e: _y, ey, ie, ei
- Review
Riley Larson SLP –
Loved this so much I bought the full version! My student was engaged and enjoyed learning about sentence formulation with the multiple modalities this provided.
Amber G. –
This was easy to use with students at different levels in my life skills class.
Erika G. –
My students loved this resource. This resource provided a lot of practice for my students.
Lori Nolan –
This is a valuable resource. Thank you! It helps make ny day easier.
Tracy Zeiders (verified owner) –
Love this resource! I am so grateful for all of your free resources 🙂
Stephanie Wilson –
I used this resource for small group RTI. It is so helpful and useful!!
Ashley S. –
These are great activities to put at your writing center to reinforce the phonics skill! I like that it has differentiation options as well!
Sheri Gaetz (verified owner) –
Christina, you make amazing resources. Thank you so much!!
Kimberley L. –
My students enjoyed this resource. It was engaging and easy to use.
Samantha N. –
A cute and fun way to help my students understand how to create sentences on their own.
jessica V. –
This resource is perfect for my para to do with a small group!
Cristina M. –
Great resource! Thank you!
Christa T. –
Great resource!
Rita W. –
Thank you for this great resource
Cathy Spies (verified owner) –
Thank you Christina for another great resource to use with my reading intervention students. This will extremely useful for my first and second grade students. This will allow me to differentiate based on their academic level. I know my lucky little learners are really going to enjoy using this resource.
Bettyann Spiech (verified owner) –
As a teacher, we all buy many of our resources with our own money, so I am so grateful for all the free resources you offer. It allows us to examine the resource in depth before purchasing, and if a teacher has limited funds it gives them something to utilize. Thank you for all you do:)
Bettyann Spiech (verified owner) –
This will work perfectly into my program to help my kiddos with their reading/writing!
MONIQUE REXER (verified owner) –
Thank you for this amazing resource!
Jill J. –
The more advance students in my class did this very well. I’m hoping to add some more stuff like this earlier so I can see more progress overall next year.
Karalynn Harrison –
I used this with my students to help them build sentences using phonics skills we were working on or had worked on in class. My students enjoyed doing these activities during small group and centers! Great resource!