Description
Medium Blends Cards
These blends cards are perfect to use with students who need review on their consonant blends. Each card includes a brightly colored keyword to help students with letter-sound recall by adding a visual image to the sounds on the card. This product is perfect to add to the Orton-Gillingham 3-part drill during an Orton-Gillingham lesson. As students look at each card while simultaneously saying the name of the blends, the keyword picture, and the sound that it makes (Ex: sn-snap-/sn/), they are simultaneously using multiple senses, which significantly impacts their ability to recall. Cards are 3.5”x 5” and print 4 to a page.
This product includes two types of resources:
- 3 sets of 42 Blends Cards:
Set 1- color images with white backgrounds: only the keyword picture that coordinates with its consonant blend is in full color.
Set 2- color images with color backgrounds: all keyword pictures are in full color with a turquoise background (turquoise is the background color for all consonants)
Set 3- black and white images with white backgrounds: each file may be printed on white or colored cardstock (if using The Multisensory Classroom color phonogram cards, print on turquoise cardstock to maintain uniformity among all the consonant phonogram cards in the program).
Each of the above sets comes with a file of single-sided and double-sided blends cards. When the double-sided cards are printed (by setting printer to print on both sides of the paper), they will have the blend and keyword picture on the front side and just the blend on the back side; the single-sided cards have the blend and keyword picture on one side, with nothing on the backside.
- Blends Posters
Set 1- Full color set of blends posters (7 posters)
Set 2- Black and white set of blends posters (7 posters)
The blends cards are organized in the same order as each blend is introduced in the Multisensory Classroom Scope and Sequence HERE.
Keywords for each letter:
Initial S blends
sc- scuff
sk- skip
sm-smash
sn- snap
sp- spill
st- stem
sw- swim
Initial L Blends
bl- blocks
cl- clock
fl- floss
gl- glass
pl- plug
sl- sled
Initial R Blends
br- branch
cr- crash
dr- drip
fr- frog
gr- grass
pr- press
tr- trash
Clusters
scr- scrub
shr- shred
spl- splat
squ- squid
str- strum
thr- throb
Final S Blends
sk- tusk
sp- clasp
st- dust
Final L Blends
ld- cold
ld- elf
lk- milk
lp- help
lt- quilt
Additional Final Blends
ct- act
ft- raft
nd- hand
nt- tent
mp- lamp
pt- swept
xt- text
The Multisensory Classroom: What are we about?
We create Orton Gillingham-based resources so classroom teachers, small-group interventionists, tutors, and homeschooling teachers can have peace of mind knowing they are using research-based strategies proven to work for beginning and struggling readers. The Orton Gillingham method is a language-based, multisensory, structured, and flexible program geared to meet the specific needs of students with reading difficulties.
We would greatly appreciate your feedback on this product. If you have any questions or issues, please email us at themultisensoryclassroom@gmail.com.
