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Read it. Trace it. Write it. Draw it! Little sounds. Big reading milestones.

Make phonics practice purposeful with our CVC Trace and Blend worksheets for the sound /s/: sun, sit, sip, sad, sag, sap, set, six, sob, sub, sum, sat, yes, gas, bus. Each set focuses on one letter-sound so students meet it in different positions. Every word is decodable with single letter-sounds; use the set once its letters have been taught, or choose the pages whose letters your class knows.

Four flexible activities, one set of words

The same words are repeated on purpose across the activities, so you can pick the one that suits each student or group. They are teacher-selected alternatives, not a compulsory sequence, and there is no expectation that students complete every page.

• Trace and Blend (supported decoding and handwriting): look at the letters, say each sound, blend to read the word, trace the letters, then check the picture to confirm the meaning.
• Trace and Write (supported spelling): name the picture, say each sound, then write the letters from left to right, tracing the focus letter when you reach it. Blend the sounds to read the word back.
• Say and Write (independent spelling): name the picture, say each sound and write a letter for every sound. Blend the sounds to read the word back.
• Read and Draw (picture-free decoding and comprehension): read the word with no picture to help, trace it, then draw what it means. Two words per page.

What's included

Two print-ready A4 PDFs for your handwriting edition, each 19 pages: a Colour file for colour printing and a Black and White file for photocopying (with a "colour the picture" step for early finishers).

• Cover and a one-page teacher guide: what students do in each activity, why it works (with references), and the read-first tip
• Trace and Blend: 4 pages
• Trace and Write: 4 pages
• Say and Write: 4 pages
• Read and Draw: 4 pages
• Back page

Handwriting editions: NSW and ACT, QLD, SA, TAS and VIC (the Victorian edition includes both VIC Print and VIC Modern Cursive). Tracing letters are dashed in your state's style, and sound boxes support segmenting and blending on every page.

Made for purposeful practice

Grounded in the science of reading and systematic synthetic phonics, these worksheets bring decoding, segmenting, spelling, handwriting and reading for meaning together around one predictable set of words. In Trace and Blend, students read the letters and blend before they look at the picture; the picture confirms the word rather than giving it away. They are supplementary practice to sit alongside your explicit phonics program, not a program in themselves.

Perfect for explicit teaching, small-group instruction, literacy rotations, fast finishers and targeted revision.

Best suited to: Foundation, once /s/ has been introduced, for practice and review. Also ideal for Year 1 revision and intervention.

Curriculum links: Australian Curriculum v9.0 English, Foundation: AC9EFLY10 (orally blend and segment single-syllable words; isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes), AC9EFLY11 (letters and their most common sounds), AC9EFLY12 (write CVC words and blend to read them) and AC9EFLY13 (use letters and sounds to spell words). NSW English K–2 Syllabus, Early Stage 1: ENE-PHOAW-01 (phonological awareness), ENE-PHOKW-01 (phonic knowledge and word recognition), ENE-SPELL-01 (spelling) and ENE-HANDW-01 (handwriting).

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