VC Blending Free Lesson Plan | 5-Day Beginning Blending Phonics Activities

Not quite ready for CVC words? Start with VC blending! This free 5-day VC Blending Lesson Plan gives beginning readers a manageable first step into blending by working with just two sounds at a time.

The week progresses through VC words including ax, at, if, it, in, up, us, on, ox, am, and an. Each day follows a consistent before-reading, during-reading, and post-reading routine so students can hear the sounds, say them, blend them, read the word, and then apply what they learned through decoding and encoding practice.

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The lessons intentionally build beyond simply reading the words. Students add and swap sounds, build VC words, and encode and write them. Day 5 also introduces nasal /a/ with am and an, including a simple articulation cue to help students notice how the sound is produced.

You'll also get the hands-on materials needed to extend the VC blending lessons. The free download includes VC word cards, individual letter cards, and a Tap It, Map It, Build It, Write It mat that takes students from phonemic awareness into phoneme-grapheme mapping and encoding.

What's Included:

• 5-day VC Blending Lesson Plan

• Daily before-reading activities

• Daily during-reading activities

• Daily post-reading activities

• VC words: ax, at, if, it, in, up, us, on, ox, am, and an

• Nasal /a/ practice with am and an

• VC word cards

• Individual letter cards

• Tap It, Map It, Build It, Write It mat

• Decoding practice

• Encoding and writing practice

• Sound addition and substitution practice

Ideas for Use:

• Beginning phonics instruction

• Small-group reading

• VC blending intervention

• Kindergarten phonics

• Pre-K phonics readiness

• Science of Reading instruction

• Beginning decoding practice

• Phonemic awareness groups

• Literacy intervention

• Guided Phonics + Beyond instruction

Skills Covered:

• VC blending

• Continuous blending

• Phonemic awareness

• Phoneme-grapheme mapping

• Short vowel sounds

• Consonant sounds

• Phoneme addition

• Phoneme substitution

• Decoding

• Encoding

• Word building

• Beginning reading fluency

VC blending provides students with an approachable bridge between knowing individual sounds and blending full CVC words. With a complete five-day plan and ready-to-use materials, this freebie makes that important first blending step easy to teach.