Build decoding accuracy and blending fluency with targeted blends and nonsense word practice!

This resource provides structured real and nonsense word fluency pages designed to strengthen students’ ability to decode and blend words containing consonant blends.

Students develop:

✔ Sound-by-sound decoding
✔ Continuous blending
✔ Accuracy with blends
✔ Automatic word recognition
✔ Left-to-right tracking

🧠 Skills Included

Students practice reading:

• CCVC words (initial blends)
• CVCC words (final blends)
• Mixed blends
• Real words
• Nonsense words

🔤 Real AND Nonsense Words

This resource includes:

✔ Real word fluency practice
✔ Nonsense word fluency practice

Why include nonsense words?

Nonsense words help teachers determine whether students are applying true decoding skills rather than relying on memorization.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Pages Included

Designed to support instruction and assessment:

✔ Teacher recording pages
✔ Student name & date fields
✔ Space for observational notes
✔ Error tracking opportunities
✔ Progress monitoring support

Perfect for:

• Small-group instruction
• Reading intervention
• Informal assessment
• Decoding accuracy checks
• Fluency monitoring

🎯 Perfect For

• Phonics instruction
• Blending practice
• Fluency routines
• RTI / MTSS
• Intervention groups
• DIBELS-aligned nonsense word practice

📚 Aligned With

✔ Science of Reading principles
✔ CKLA phonics routines
✔ UFLI Foundations strategies

👧 Ideal For

⭐ Kindergarten
⭐ First Grade
⭐ Intervention / support in Grades 2+

Help students move from:

Slow decoding → Smooth, confident word reading