Free Successive Blending Digital Slides – SOR Aligned - CVC, Digraphs, CCVC, CVCE, CVCC, R-Controlled, and Vowel Variants

This Successive Blending Digital Slides Freebie includes over 500 skill-based words and 1,500 slides aligned with the Science of Reading and the Guided Phonics + Beyond framework. The slides are designed to explicitly teach successive blending, a research-based phonics routine that helps students connect sounds and build words with automaticity.

In successive blending, students decode a word sound by sound — blending progressively instead of isolating all sounds first. For example:

/s/ → /sa/ → /sat/

This structured, scaffolded approach eliminates guessing, strengthens phoneme-grapheme connections, and builds true decoding fluency.

🎬 View the slides in action HERE.

Why it matters:
Successive blending ensures students are blending to read, not memorizing or guessing at words. It helps learners retain sound patterns and improves accuracy when reading CVC, digraph, blend, and long vowel words — foundational to all future reading success.

Ideas for use:

• Project slides during whole-group phonics instruction for direct modeling.

• Use in small groups for explicit decoding and blending support.

• Assign for independent or digital center work on Google Slides or PowerPoint.

• Encourage “say, stretch, blend” routines as students move through each sound.

• Revisit slides daily for consistent, cumulative blending review.

What’s Included:

• Over 500 blending slides

• Practice for CVC, digraphs, CCVC, CVCE, CVCC, r-controlled, and vowel variant words

• Step-by-step successive blending sequence for each word

• Science of Reading aligned instruction for decoding mastery

• Available in Google Slides, PDF, and downloadable PowerPoint formats