Hi!
I just made these fun blend cards to help my Kindergartner learn his blends, you can download them here.
I just printed on cardstock, then laminated for durability!
Enjoy!
Hi!
I just made these fun blend cards to help my Kindergartner learn his blends, you can download them here.
I just printed on cardstock, then laminated for durability!
Enjoy!
I love your blog! We just started abeka1, so this is perfect timing! Thanks!
Aimee,These are wonderful! Thank you so much for creating and posting them!
How do you use these blend ladders? They're so cute!
When you are teaching phonics, Abeka teaches vowels first, then starts with consonants. Once you introduce a consonant, you explain that you can 'blend' them with the vowels to make words.So these cards are used as flashcards kind of, Abeka starts with the consonant T, so you show them the blend ladder card and sound out the 't' and then the 'a' separately, then closer together, then finally as 'ta' (They start with short vowels first).You do this with each vowel as you go down the ladder. Once you've explained all of the blended sounds for that consonant, I use them as a review each day and make them read down the ladder by themselves.You do this with each consonant as its introduced. Once they have the blends memorized, then you can start adding ending consonants, so Te plus d = Ted, or Ti plus p = Tip, etc…its just a way for them to learn the blends so when they start reading a word, the only new sound they see is the last one, they've already got the beginning blend down pat!Clear as mud? LOL!
Also, I use them as word starters, once they're further along, they can come up with their own words by adding consonants to the ends of each ladder step. Like:taptentiptoptub
I'm so excited I found these! Are they the exact same as A Beka's official ones? If so, you just saved me over $20!!! Thanks so much! 🙂
Deana: Yes the phonics are identical, a blend ladder is a blend ladder LOL! But the images are probably different on each card then on the abeka ones.
These are so awesome–thank you so much! Carla (Masto Mama)http://mastomama.blogspot.com/http://mastomamamakeovers.blogspot.com/
Thanks you so much for this resource! I was going to make my own and thought I would google to see if there were already some out there i could print, and there your site was! Thanks for your help!!
I am so glad I found this! I was about to dish out the $20 for the one's on the Abeka site.