Digraphs, Double Endings, and CCVC Consonant Blends | Free Blending Strips

Help students move from individual sounds to fluent word reading with these free Sound-by-Sound Blending Strips! This printable resource provides explicit decoding practice with digraphs, double consonant endings, and CCVC beginning blends.

Each strip features individual sounds or spelling patterns in segmented boxes with dots underneath, followed by the complete word and a blending arrow. Students say each sound, blend the sounds together, and read the whole word. The color-coded format provides visual support, while the black-and-white version offers a simple printing option.

What's Included:

• Printable blending strips in color and black and white

• Digraphs: sh, th, ch, wh

• Double consonant endings: ll, ss, ff, zz

• CCVC words with beginning consonant blends

• Sound boxes, phoneme dots, and blending arrows

Word examples: ship, dish, thin, chat, whip, fell, mess, puff, buzz, clap, flag, slip, frog, crab, snap, swim, skip, twin

Ideas for Use:

Use these blending strips during whole-group phonics lessons, small-group instruction, reading intervention, or independent phonics centers. Students can touch each dot as they say the sounds, then sweep across the arrow to blend and read the complete word.

Skills covered include: Phoneme-grapheme correspondence, continuous blending, digraph recognition, double consonant endings, CCVC decoding, and word-reading fluency.