R Blends Sorting Mats & Task Cards | Phonics Real Photos | SLP SPED Speech

Build r-blend phonics and sorting skills with these hands-on R-Blends Sorting Mats featuring real photos! Students sort objects by their beginning r-blend — targeting phonics, decoding, and articulation goals. Perfect for centers, morning tubs, work stations, and small groups.

📦 What's Included

• 7 sorting mats for 7 beginning r-blends: br- • cr- • dr- • fr- • gr- • pr- • tr-
• BONUS: over 50 task cards for extra practice — students write the r-blend for each real photo

🎯 Skills Targeted

• Beginning r-blends (br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr)
• Consonant blends and clusters
• Phonics and decoding
• Beginning sounds and sound segmentation
• Sorting and classification
• Spelling and encoding (writing the blend)
• Articulation of r-blends (speech sound practice)
• Vocabulary
• Visual discrimination

📚 How to Use

• Have students sort the real-photo objects onto the matching r-blend mat
• Use the 50+ task cards for independent practice — students write the r-blend for each photo
• Set up at a phonics or literacy center, morning tub, or work station
• Use in small group or 1:1 for explicit blend instruction
• Pull for speech therapy to target r-blend articulation (great for /r/ blend sound practice)
• Use for spelling/encoding practice (write the blend) and decoding practice (read the blend)

💛 Perfect For

• Speech-language therapy sessions (SLPs) — phonics AND articulation
• Special education classrooms (SPED)
• Autism classrooms and ABA programs
• Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade phonics
• Reading intervention and RTI/MTSS
• Phonics and literacy centers
• Independent work stations, task boxes, and morning tubs
• Early childhood and ECSE
• Homeschool phonics practice
• Structured literacy / Science of Reading classrooms

🌟 Why Teachers & SLPs Love This Resource

• Real photos make blends concrete and engaging
• 7 r-blends + 50+ task cards = lots of practice in one set
• Works for phonics AND articulation (decoding, spelling, and /r/ blend speech practice)
• Multiple formats — sorting mats, task cards, centers, morning tubs
• Supports structured literacy / Science of Reading instruction
• Reusable year after year once laminated
• Low-prep, print-and-go

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