3. Consonant Blends

~Consonant blends

Consonant blends= when 2 consonant sounds are said together, those are called blends.

If you can say and read all of the one letter consonant sounds, you can now practice putting 2 consonants together into consonant blends.

There are some consonant blends below.

The first page of consonant blends are blends at the end of words.

The next page of consonant blends are blends at the beginning of words.

(the progression for these sounds was based on the a sequence from Hooked on Phonics, a program that can be ordered on the internet)

Please practice:
say each of the 2 letter sound blends by itself, not in words
(if you forget a sound, look at the mouth pictures)
say each of the blends in the word that is under that blend.
( it’s okay if you don’t know what the words mean )

Practice again and again and again.

You can look at these pictures of mouths, to help you remember each sound in the blend.

2 letter consonant blends at the end of words
Printable copy of: Ending blends one page

(it’s okay if you don’t know what these words mean. This page is for practice saying the blends and for reading the words with these blends in them. You will learn the meanings later.)

Printable copy: Ending blends word lists

2 letter consonant blends at the beginning of words

You can look at these pictures of mouths, to help you remember each sound in the blends.

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Beginning Consonant Blends
Printable copy of: Beginning Consonant Blends

Words with consonant blends at the beginning of words

(it’s okay if you don’t know what these words mean. This page is for practice saying the blends and for reading the words with these blends in them. You will learn the meanings later.)

Printable copy of: Beginning consonant blend word lists