Help your first grade students build confidence with beginning L-blends with this 14-page printable phonics practice pack! Students practice recognizing, reading, matching, sorting, and writing words beginning with BL, CL, FL, GL, PL, and SL.
 
Designed with a variety of activities and plenty of picture support, these worksheets give students repeated practice with L-blends without every page feeling the same. The activities gradually move from identifying and tracing blends to reading words and finding L-blends in sentences.
 
The entire resource is black and white and ready to print, making it easy to use for morning work, literacy centers, independent practice, small groups, homework, intervention, or phonics review.
 
What's Included?
Page 1 – Meet the L-Blends
Students say each picture name, trace the beginning blend, and then write the blend independently. Words include blanket, cloud, flower, glue, plane, and slug.
Pages 2–3 – Choose the L-Blend
Students look at each picture, choose the correct beginning blend, and complete the word. Words include clam, blocks, flute, gloves, plate, sled, clock, plant, sleep, and globe.
Pages 4–5 – Match the Blends
Students draw a line from each picture to the correct beginning L-blend. Picture words include clock, blocks, flower, gloves, plate, globe, plant, clam, flute, and slug.
Page 6 – Color the L-Blends
Students say each picture name and color the L-blend that begins the word. Words include flag, blocks, clown, glasses, plane, slippers, flute, cloud, gloves, and clam.
Page 7 – L-Blend Search
Students look at the pictures and circle the ones that begin with an L-blend. Picture words include blanket, cloud, plane, flute, clown, glasses, slippers, and blocks.
Page 8 – Sort the L-Blends
Students read the words in the word bank and write each one under the correct beginning blend. Words include black, flag, place, blanket, flat, play, blink, clap, glad, sleep, clip, glow, slow, and glue.
Page 9 – Finish the Word
Students write the missing beginning blend to complete each word. Words include clock, floss, blocks, clown, slug, cloud, plate, gloves, globe, and sleep.
Pages 10–11 – Read and Match
Students read each word and draw a line to its matching picture. Words include blocks, clean, flower, glasses, play, sled, flippers, plum, glue, and flag.
Page 12 – Which Word Is It?
Students look at each picture and circle the word that matches. Words practiced include black, flea, clam, floss, claw, glad, class, flame, play, and bloom.
Page 13 – Find the L-Blend Words
Students read a mixed group of words and circle the words that begin with an L-blend. Words include black, blanket, slam, clam, glad, floor, plant, drink, glass, clay, globe, slow, sleep, and class.
Page 14 – Read, Circle & Draw
Students read each sentence, circle the L-blend word, and draw a picture to match the sentence. This final activity gives students an opportunity to recognize L-blends while reading words in context.
 
Beginning Blends Practiced
BL • CL • FL • GL • PL • SL
 
Skills Practiced
Identifying beginning consonant blends
Recognizing BL, CL, FL, GL, PL, and SL
Connecting pictures with beginning sounds
Reading L-blend words
Completing words with missing blends
Sorting words by beginning blend
Matching words and pictures
Reading L-blend words in context
Beginning phonics and decoding skills
Fine-motor practice through tracing, writing, coloring, matching, and drawing
 
Perfect For
First grade phonics
Literacy centers
Morning work
Independent practice
Small-group instruction
Phonics intervention
Homework
Early finishers
Review and extra practice
Homeschool phonics lessons
 
Resource Details:
• 14 printable worksheet pages
• Black-and-white, ink-friendly design
• Focuses on beginning L-blends
• Designed for first grade
• Includes picture-supported and reading-based activities
• Print and use—no prep required
 
Give your students plenty of varied, approachable practice with BL, CL, FL, GL, PL, and SL while building the phonics skills they need to become stronger readers and writers!