Blending Card Deck - All Phonics Skills

Help your students build strong decoding skills with this systematic Blending Card Deck, designed to support students as they build, decode, and blend words across a wide range of phonics skills. This resource follows a structured “card deck” routine used in many Science of Reading and structured literacy settings.

What This Resource Is
This printable phonics resource includes a complete set of color-coded blending cards that allow students to build words using beginning sounds, vowel sounds, and ending sounds. The color-coding supports a consistent word-building routine that strengthens decoding fluency and accuracy.

Skills Covered
Students will practice:
• Blending and segmenting words left to right
• Building and reading VC, CVC, CCVC, CVCC, CVCe, and more
• Reviewing foundational and advanced phonics patterns through word building

What’s Included
• Color-coded blending deck cards organized by phonics skill
• Cards for beginning sounds, vowels, and ending sounds
• Teacher-friendly directions for implementing the routine

How to Use This Resource
1. Print cards on cardstock and laminate for durability.
2. Cut cards and organize by color.
3. Build a word using beginning, vowel, and ending sound cards.
4. Students touch and say each sound, then blend the word.
5. Change one card at a time to create new words and build automaticity.

Why Teachers and Homeschool Parents Love It
• Highly systematic and easy to use daily
• Builds decoding fluency by focusing on one sound change at a time
• Great for small groups, intervention, and differentiation
• Reusable, hands-on resource students enjoy
• Strong alignment with Science of Reading routines

If you purchased Raising Little Readers® Volume 2 with the Bonus Printables Bundle add-on, you already own this resource.

If you purchased Raising Little Readers® Volume 1 you already own this resource.