Ending Blends Worksheets

About this resource

A child who can pick the right blend out of three choices is not automatically a child who can

spell it with no choices printed — and a child who reads the front of a word but drops the last

sound needs a page that listens there on purpose. This gives both jobs their own page, for six

ending blends — nd, nk, st, mp, lt, ld — plus a Mixed Ending Blends review: say the picture, circle

the two letters you hear at the end, then write the two letters that finish the word.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (27 pages)

• 14 practice pages — 6 ending blends plus 1 mixed review, x 2 formats each: Circle It (three

letter choices, all of them other ending blends) and Write It (the front of the word is printed,

write the missing two letters)

• 11 pictured words, checked against two independent icon sets (Google Noto and Microsoft Fluent

High Contrast) so a wrong picture never becomes a wrong answer key — no repeats across any blend

• 1 tracker (one student, all six blends) and 1 class roll-up grid, type-in or print
• 1 team note page and 1 home-practice page
• 1 filled example, 1 phrase bank, 1 binder cover with a spine label and three divider tabs
• Start Here, a how-to-read-a-page key with a worked example of both formats, and a contents page

that gives every page number, plus a gallery of all 11 pictured words

The Two Formats, Every Blend

1. Circle It (recognition) — a picture and three letter-cluster choices underneath, all of them

other ending blends. Say the word, listen for the blend at the end, circle the one you hear.

2. Write It (production) — the same picture, the front of the word printed, the blend left blank

at the end. Say the word, write the two missing letters.

Every blend here finishes the word, so "Ends with" prints above every tile — where to listen is

never a guess. No student page carries the word "Level."

The Six Ending Blends

nd, nk, st, mp, lt, ld — all ending blends, plus a Mixed Ending Blends review that reuses one

flagship picture from each blend for discrimination practice. A picture is only used where it

names one thing and nothing else — a wrong picture is a wrong answer key — so mp, lt and ld (one

safe pictured word each) carry fresh "Try 1 / Try 2…" repetitions of that same real word instead of

a mostly blank page; nd has two, nk and st each have three. Page 5 lists exactly how many pictured

words are in each blend.

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the tracker, the class grid, the team note and the home page are type-in

fields in any PDF reader. The circles and the letters a student writes are always pencil work.

This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Kindergarten and first-grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher moving

a student from recognizing an ending blend to spelling it — including a student who reads the front

of a word but consistently drops the last sound. The home page sends the same job to a family; the

team note hands off what changed since the last meeting.

What This Is, And What It Is Not