Initial and Final Consonant Blends Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: L.K.2.C

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When you have a series of consonants together, that seem to do their own thing, we refer to this as a blend (consonant blend). These blends can be used to form endless words. If a blend is at the front of the word, we refer to it as "initial". If the blend is at the end of the word, we call it "final". These worksheets will help you students pick apart and piece together blends.

Initial and Final Consonant Blends Worksheets To Print:

Ending It off Right – You are given a suffix bank to go crazy with.

Write the Ending Blend – Students are given a group of batched ending to use and a picture as a prompt.

Mixed Ending Blends – This is a true phonics activity for beginning sounds.

Ending Blend Matching – Note that the sounds are found on both sides of the consonant sounds.

-nd Word Path – Help Mister Bunny find his way to his yummy carrot.

Mixed Ending Blends 2 – Look at the pictures. Circle the consonant blend that each word ends with.

-mp Word Path – Draw the path that lucky took to get his bone. He can only walk on -mp words.

sp- and st- Blends – Choose the correct consonant blend for each picture and write the word on the line.

bl- and br- Blends – More of the same, but different consonant pairs.

cl- and cr- Blends – Believe it or not, kids are actually supposed to know what a mechanical crane is in Kindergarten. We never knew until we reviewed the social studies national standards.

fl- and fr- Blends – Flower, frozen, frog, fruit, flute, and fries.

pl- and pr- Blends – Prize, plant, price, plate, planet, and print.

sl- and st- Blends – Sleep, storm, star, sleigh, slipper, and stork.

sw- and tr- Blends – Swim, train, truck, sweater, trash, and sweep.

Mixed Blends Worksheet 1 – Look at the pictures. Circle the consonant blend that each word starts with.

Mixed Blends Worksheet 2 – Lots of animals, produce, and machines that tend to them.

WHAT ARE INITIAL AND FINAL CONSONANT BLENDS

What are Consonants?


Consonants are all letters in the alphabets which denote basic speech sound produced by blocking the breath in the vocal passage. There are 21 consonant letters in English. This means, all the letters in the English alphabets are consonants except for the vowels (A E I O and U). Consonants can be combined with a vowel to make a syllable.


What are Consonant Blends?


Also known as consonant clusters, these are a collection of two or three consonants in a word that make a distinguishing consonant sound when a word is pronounced. For example, in the word 'drink', both the letters are consonant blends because when the word is pronounced, the sound of "d" and "r" can be heard separately.


Initial and Final Consonant Blend


The initial consonant blend is a cluster of letters that makes a distinctive sound at the beginning of the word. Each letter in the word is pronounced individually, but in a way that they blend together flawlessly. An example of a word with initial consonant blend can be black, clean, float, play, slip, draw, grade and bridge.


A group of letters, usually two or three that make their own sound at the end of the word is termed as a final consonant blend. Examples of the final consonant blend are mask, lamp, sand, cold, golf, tent, bird and park. In the word 'back', ck will not be a consonant blend because both the letters make a single sound that is /k/.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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