Campfire Scramble

This worksheet is designed for students in Grades 2 and 3 to strengthen reading comprehension while reinforcing phonics skills through an engaging narrative. By reading a campfire story rich in /scr/ blend words, learners practice vocabulary development, word recognition, context clue analysis, sequencing, and inferential thinking within meaningful text.

Skills Reinforced

• Reading Comprehension (Gr. 2-3): Answer questions that assess understanding of story events, details, and sequence.
• Vocabulary Development: Use context clues to interpret the meaning of blend-rich words such as scrape, scratch, scream, and scramble.
• Phonics & Word Recognition: Identify and recognize /scr/ consonant blends embedded naturally in connected text.
• Story Structure & Detail Recall: Strengthen understanding of narrative flow, cause and effect, and key details.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Developed by educators to align with elementary reading and phonics standards.
• Integrated Literacy Practice: Combines phonics reinforcement with comprehension and vocabulary skills.
• Engaging Story Theme: Campfire setting keeps students motivated and attentive while reading.
• Flexible Use: Ideal for guided reading, independent practice, small groups, literacy centers, assessment activities, homework, or homeschool instruction.

This Campfire Scramble worksheet helps students apply phonics knowledge within an authentic story, strengthening both decoding and comprehension skills. By encountering /scr/ blend words in context, learners build reading fluency, vocabulary understanding, and confidence with narrative text. Whether used in the classroom or at home, this printable provides meaningful, no-prep practice that supports overall literacy development.

This worksheet is part of our Phonics SCR Consonant Blends collection.