25 no-prep word sorts to help students master double final consonants while boosting decoding, fluency, and phoneme awareness!

This focused set includes 5 essential skills that target short vowel words ending in -ff, -ll, -ss, -zz, and a mixed review — with 5 engaging sort types per skill, giving you a total of 25 meaningful phonics activities.

Whether you’re supporting emerging readers or providing targeted intervention, these sorts build automaticity and pattern recognition with high-utility phonics skills.

All words are fully decodable and ideal for Science of Reading-aligned instruction in K-2 classrooms and intervention settings.

✨ What’s Included:

• 5 double final consonant phonics skills covering:
  • 🔤 Short vowel + doubled consonants (e.g., ff vs. f, ss vs. s)
  • 🌀 Mixed review set (all four final consonants: ff, ll, ss, zz)

🖐️ 5 Sort Types for Every Skill:

• Picture Sort – Sort by word ending using pictures only (includes picture key!)
• Word Sort – Decode and sort printed words with and without doubled endings
• Written Word Sort – Read, sort, write, and re-read (with fluency prompt)
• Word Hunt & Sort – Find double final consonant words “in the wild” and sort them
• Listen & Write Sort – Dictation sort using a teacher script
  

🖨️ That’s 25 no-prep, printable sorts — just print and teach!

💡 Flexible Use:

Use one sort each day of the week to reinforce a single skill

OR use the different formats to differentiate across student needs

Perfect for:

✅ Word Work

✅ Phonics Intervention

✅ Centers & Small Groups

✅ Homework & Take-Home Practice

✅ Assessments (encoding, dictation, and more)

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📂 Includes a clickable Table of Contents so you can quickly find and print what you need.

🎯 Fully aligned to the Science of Reading, with emphasis on orthographic mapping and short vowel mastery.

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Help your students recognize and internalize high-frequency spelling patterns with confidence!

These Double Final Consonant Word Sorts are a must-have for K-2 phonics instruction.