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Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin

Lesson 4 - Consonant Blends

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Old, ild, ind, and ost may sound like a foreign language, but they actually represent common final consonant blends. Help learners recognize and pronounce consonant blends with step-by-step instructions, including scripted conversations....
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Word Work: Blends, Digraphs & Trigraphs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Practice thirty-three different consonant blends, digraphs, and trigraphs with your emergent readers! Each letter combination has its own column in which you and your learners can write down five different words that demonstrate the...
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Helping Dyslexia

Picture Pairs Blends

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Challenge your pupils to match words to images with these 29 pairs. Each word includes a consonant blend, either initial or final, and should be matched with its corresponding image either by simply putting two correct cards together or...
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Curated OER

Initial Consonant Blends #3

For Students 1st - 3rd
Learners read ten sentences and use the word bank to find the correct missing word. There are ten sentences that illustrate initial consonant blends. Younger learners will most likely need additional support to complete this activity. 
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Pronunciation: The Sounds /s/, /z/ or, /iz/? Consonant Clusters with "s"

For Students 6th - 12th
Instruct your class on how to pronounce /s/ sounds with this resource. Learners fill in the final /s/ sound into blanks, listen to plural sounds, learn about the rules of the target sound, write sentences, and work with consonant...
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Brick Breaker: Initial Consonant Blends

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Practice initial consonant blends with a fun, interactive game! Choose the sounds you'd like to practice, and then have kids place the appropriate pictures for their brick breaker boards. Spin the spinner to select a blended sound, and...
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Curated OER

Initial Consonant Blends

For Students K - 2nd
In this recognizing consonant blends worksheet, students view pictures of objects, say their names, and identify the consonant blend at the beginning of the words. Students circle 10 multiple choice answers.
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Initial Consonant Blends #2

For Students K - 2nd
In this recognizing consonant blends worksheet, learners view pictures, say their names, and identify the consonant blends at the beginning of the words. Students choose 10 multiple choice answers.
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Phonics: Read and Write Words with a Consonant Blend

For Teachers K
Reading often times starts with phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence. Get little ones blending those letter sounds together to read and write simple words. As the teacher sounds out each word, learners count phonemes, and...
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Beginning Consonant Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young readers practice their beginning consonant sounds. Solid worksheets prompt students to practice their consonant in fun ways. These worksheets use Clifford the Big Red Dog as a theme, and give the kids excellent and colorful practice.
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Consonant Blends Activity

For Students K - 1st
In this consonant blends worksheet, students circle circle the correct consonant blend that begin each word describing a picture. Students choose from 2 blends; a reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Consonant Blends Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this consonant blends worksheet, students choose the correct beginning blend that starts each picture. Students do this for 4 pictures.
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab: Words Beginning with SL

For Students 10th - 11th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students select the best word to complete the sentence. They are challenged by the difficult words that contain a sl-blend.
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab: Words Beginning with TR

For Students 10th - 11th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students select the best word to complete the sentence. They are challenged by the difficult words that contain a tr-blend.
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Blends - Sp and St

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this consonant blends worksheet, students work with the sp and st blends. They look at 6 pictures and decide whether they begin with sp or st. They circle the correct blend and write on the line below each picture.
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Curated OER

Consonant Blends - Sm and Sw

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this consonant blend activity, students work with the sm and sw blends. They look at 6 pictures and decide if they begin with sm or sw. They circle the correct blend and write it on the line below each picture.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness - Phoneme Segmenting and Blending, Treasure Chest

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Working in pairs, scholars use picture cards to practice segmenting words into phonemes and blending phonemes into words. When a peer answers correctly they place a penny in a treasure chest. Incorrect responses make the card go back in...
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Pronunciation of Initial /s/ Consonant Clusters

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students comprehend how to produce these pronuciation features, recognize the various blends of initial /s/, hear the sounds, produce them correctly when thinking about it, and practice correct pronunciation to be comprehended by others.
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Working with Ss Blends

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this recognizing words with Ss blends worksheet, learners view pictures, say their names, and print the blend that they hear at the beginning of each word. Students write 12 beginning Ss blends.
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Ss Blends

For Students K - 1st
In this blends worksheet, students listen for the Ss blends at the beginning of the names of each of 9 pictures. They write the names on the lines above the spelling pattern shown as CCVCC or CCVC.
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Phonetics: The Study of Speech Sounds

For Teachers Higher Ed
A beginning study of linguistics will include phonetics and the way sound is made. Show your class these great slides with pictures and examples of consonants, vowels, and blends. Placement of the tongue, lips, etc. are displayed to give...
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Curated OER

Beginning Consonant Blends Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this beginning consonant blends worksheet, students fill in missing consonant blends to complete writing names of pictures, 4 total. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Curated OER

dr/fr

For Teachers K
Practice the blends "dr" and "fr" with this resource. Nine pictures are displayed with the end of the word written below. Learners discern whether the word begins with "fr" or "dr." Focus on two blends at a time to help your children...
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Using the Sounds of Words Reading Task

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young readers demonstrate phonemic awareness in words and blends, and recognize 100 high-frequency words. Use a nursery rhyme to point out rhyming words, and change the words by putting a new letter at the beginning. Each learner will...