VC Blending Free Digital Slides | Beginning Phonics & Word Blending Practice

Ready to help students make the leap from individual sounds to blending words? These free VC Blending Digital Slides provide 85 slides across four structured phonics lessons designed specifically for beginning blenders.

🛒 View the full set of Phonics Digital Slides HERE.

Students work with VC words using short a, i, o, and u. The four lessons target at and ax; in, it, and if; on and ox; and up and us. Each lesson is designed as a quick 10–15 minute whole-group phonics mini lesson, making the slides easy to add between alphabet instruction and more advanced word reading.

The routine goes far beyond simply showing students a word and asking them to read it. Students form their mouths to produce vowel sounds, connect sounds to graphemes, stretch words sound by sound with the visual rollercoaster, say and tap sounds, map and graph words, blend sounds together, decode VC words, and apply the words in meaningful contexts.

🎥 Listen to a visual demo video for the free VC digital slides HERE.

The free VC slides follow the same formatting as the complete Phonics-Based Digital Slides Bundle, so you can try the routine with your students before moving into the full set.

The slides are offered in PDF and Google Slides formats. A PowerPoint version can also be downloaded directly from Google Slides.

What's Included:

• 85 VC phonics digital slides

• 4 structured phonics lessons

• Lesson 1: VC /a/ with at and ax

• Lesson 2: VC /i/ with in, it, and if

• Lesson 3: VC /o/ with on and ox

• Lesson 4: VC /u/ with up and us

• Mouth formation visuals

• Phoneme-grapheme practice

• Rollercoaster blending visuals

• Say, tap, map, graph, and write practice

• Word building and blending

• VC word decoding

• Word reading in context

• PDF and Google Slides formats

Ideas for Use:

• Whole-group phonics instruction

• Beginning blending lessons

• 10–15 minute phonics mini lessons

• Guided Phonics + Beyond instruction

• Small-group phonics review

• Intervention

• Interactive whiteboard practice

• Daily decoding and blending review

Skills Covered:

• VC blending

• Phoneme-grapheme correspondence

• Short vowel sounds

• Phoneme segmentation

• Phoneme blending

• Sound-to-symbol mapping

• Decoding

• Word building

• Orthographic mapping practice

• Beginning word reading

• Reading words in context

• Fluency with VC words

These free VC Blending Digital Slides give beginning readers explicit, visual, and repeated practice moving from individual phonemes to successfully blending and reading their first VC words.