Help your students build confidence with beginning S-blends using this 14-page printable phonics worksheet pack designed especially for first grade!
 
The Beginning S-Blends Phonics Pack gives students repeated, picture-supported practice identifying, reading, and writing words beginning with SK, SM, SN, SP, ST, and SW.
 
The activities progress from highly supported blend recognition to reading and writing practice, while a variety of worksheet formats keeps students engaged. The predictable directions and black-and-white format make these pages easy to use for independent work, literacy centers, morning work, small groups, intervention, homework, or extra phonics practice.
 
Beginning S-Blends Included
SK • SM • SN • SP • ST • SW
 
Students practice with familiar, age-appropriate words including:
skip, snack, small, spider, spin, snow, smiles, snap, sky, ski, smart, snake, stick, stop, swan, snail, swing, stool, smell, spoon, skunk, and stamp
 
What's Included?
This resource includes 14 printable black-and-white phonics worksheets featuring a variety of activities for practicing beginning S-blends.
 
Students will:
Say picture names and identify their beginning blends
Trace and write beginning S-blends
Choose the correct blend to complete words
Match pictures with their beginning blends
Color the correct S-blend for each picture
Complete words with missing beginning blends
Read and recognize S-blend words
Practice distinguishing between different beginning S-blends
 
Picture clues provide support for developing readers while students build stronger connections between the sounds they hear and the letters they see and write.
 
Skills Practiced
Identifying beginning consonant blends
Recognizing SK, SM, SN, SP, ST, and SW
Beginning sound discrimination
Phonics and decoding
Letter-sound correspondence
Completing words with beginning blends
Reading S-blend words
Early spelling skills
 
Perfect For
1st grade phonics
Late kindergarten practice
Early 2nd grade review
Literacy centers
Morning work
Independent practice
Small-group instruction
Phonics intervention
Early finishers
Homework
Homeschool phonics practice
 
Print-and-Go Phonics Practice
 
These worksheets are designed to be simple for teachers and approachable for students. Just print the pages you need and they're ready to use—no complicated setup or prep required.
 
Use the complete pack as an S-blends unit, select individual pages to reinforce a specific skill, or add the worksheets to your phonics centers throughout the year.
 
This Beginning S-Blends Phonics Pack follows the same student-friendly format as the Ask the Teacher Beginning L-Blends and Beginning R-Blends phonics resources, making it easy to provide consistent practice as students work through different beginning consonant blends.
 
Grade Levels: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade
Primary Grade: 1st Grade
Subject: English Language Arts, Phonics, Reading
Resource Type: Worksheets, Printables, Literacy Centers
Pages: 14 printable student worksheets