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This r-blend onset and rime worksheet helps students strengthen phonics skills by matching beginning r-blends with endings that form real words. Learners analyze sound patterns to determine which combinations make sense, reinforcing decoding accuracy, spelling, and word recognition.

Key Learning Objectives

• Skill Focus: Blending r-blend onsets with rimes to form real words
• Critical Thinking Benefit: Encourages analysis of sound combinations and word validity
• Curriculum Tie-in: Supports phonics, decoding, spelling, and phonemic awareness standards
• Application Type: Matching and writing activity that reinforces word construction

Teacher & Parent Features

• Promotes experimentation with onset and rime combinations
• Includes a writing extension to support encoding skills
• Encourages saying words aloud to strengthen phonemic awareness
• Ideal for literacy centers, phonics lessons, or small-group instruction
• Builds confidence in forming and reading real words
• Suitable for classroom and homeschool learning environments

This printable r-blend worksheet supports early literacy development by helping students connect sound patterns to real words. By matching r-blends with correct endings and writing completed words, learners strengthen decoding, spelling accuracy, and phonemic awareness in an engaging, structured format.

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