Blend Spotting

Build phonics awareness and reading fluency with this ST blend spotting worksheet. Students read complete sentences and highlight or underline every word that contains the -st blend, practicing pattern recognition within meaningful, connected text rather than isolated word lists.

Key Learning Objectives
• Skill Focus: Identifying the -st blend within sentences
• Critical Thinking Benefit: Strengthens attention to detail and visual scanning skills
• Curriculum Tie-In: Supports phonics instruction, reading fluency, and word pattern recognition
• Application Type: Sentence-level blend identification that reinforces decoding in context

Teacher & Parent Features
• Reinforces recognition of final blends in authentic reading situations
• Builds fluency through repeated reading and pattern scanning
• Encourages careful reading without sacrificing comprehension
• Supports silent or oral reading practice
• Ideal for literacy centers, small groups, intervention, or independent work

This printable ST blend worksheet helps students strengthen foundational reading skills by identifying phonics patterns within connected text, improving decoding accuracy, fluency, and comprehension simultaneously.

This worksheet is part of our -st Blends Worksheets collection.