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

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

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Product Description

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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