🦜Get Ready to Sp-ell S-Blend Words, Me Hearties 

Sh-iver me timbers! Ye sc-allawags are in for a spelling treat.  

With this collection of interactive Google Slides, students will group, match, spell, and write sentences featuring S-blend words.

Students will get their phonological awareness sea legs with learning activities featuring initial S-blends:

• sc
• sl
• sm
• sn 
• sp 
• st

Scaffolding + Extension Tips 

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource to support your foundational language lessons. 

In addition to individual student work time, use this activity as a guided reading group, whole-class, or remote learning assignment.

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Provide read-aloud assistance if needed. Pre-teach S-blends and work through similar spelling activities before independent work.

Additionally, students can work with a partner to complete the task.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

Have students select words from the sort and write sentences to make a story. If students aren’t quite ready for sentence writing, they can write lists of other S-blend words.  

✋ Class Review

Turn this activity into an assessment at the end of your lesson or right before a test to give students some extra practice. Project the Google Slides complete them in your guided reading group or as a whole class. Have students complete the sentence writing slide in their notebooks. (Google Slides users must be in Edit mode to move the pieces, not Presentation mode.)   

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Please note that this activity is an interactive Google Slides resource. 

After downloading, make a copy of the resource: 

1. Click on File.
2. From the dropdown menu, hover your cursor over Make a copy.
3. From the side bar, click on Entire presentation. 
4. On-page elements are moveable in Edit mode only.

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