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What are examples of consonant blends?

What are examples of consonant blends?

A consonant blend is when two or more consonants are blended together, but each sound may be heard in the blend. The most common beginning consonant blends include: bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fr, tr, fl, gl, gr, pl, pr, sl, sm, sp and st. Blends can also occur at the end of words as in the word “last”.

What are consonant blends cite 5 examples?

Three-Letter Consonant Blend Examples

Blend Shorter Words Longer Words
scr-blends scrap, screw, scrub scratch, scream, scribble
shr-blends shred, shrub, shrug shriek, shrimp, shrivel
spl-blends splat, splay, split splash, splendid, splinter
spr-blends spray, spree, sprig spread, spring, sprinkle

What is a blend word example?

Blending is one of the many ways new words are made in English. It refers to joining the beginning of one word and the end of another to make a new word with a new meaning. Smog, from smoke and fog, and brunch, from breakfast and lunch, are examples of blends.

What is a consonant team or blend?

A consonant blend is a term used for two adjacent consonants in a word that represent two separate sounds. Take the word, ‘blog’: the letters ‘b’ and ‘l’ spell two separate sounds /b/ and /l/. A consonant team is when two adjacent consonants in a word spell one sound.

What is the blend in a word?

What is a Blend? A blend is two consonants that come together and they both keep their sounds. For example, think about the sl in the word slide. You can clearly hear the sound of the s and the sound of the l in the word slide.

What is beginning blend words?

The most common beginning consonant blends include: bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fr, tr, fl, gl, gr, pl, pr, sl, sm, sp and st. Blends can also occur at the end of words as in the word “last”. There are also blends which contain three consonants. Common three consonant blends include: str, spl, and spr.

What is a common final blend?

Skill: final consonant blends: –st, –sk, –sp, –nd, –nt, –nk, –mp, –rd, –ld, –lp, –rk, –lt, –lf, –pt, –ft, –ct. Initial consonant blends (beginning) and final (ending) consonant blends appear throughout these lessons. Blends are consonants whose “sounds blends together”.

What is meant by blend words?

A blend (sometimes blend word, lexical blend, portmanteau or portmanteau word) is a word formed from parts of two or more other words.

What is a 2 letter blend word?

Common 2-Letter Blends. The most common 2-letter consonant blends are: bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl, br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr, sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, and tw. Here are some words with 2-letter consonant blends: Bl: blank, black, blue, blister, blight, blast.

What are the words that begin with a consonant blend?

You will find words beginning with the blends bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl, br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr, sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st and sw. This collection of resources contains three different activities. First, you will find checklists that each contain six sentences. There is an emphasis on words beginning with consonant blends.

How many consonants do students know at this point?

At this point, students know 26 consonants and their most common sounds, short vowel sounds, and digraphs (sh, th, ch, ck, and wh). They are going step by step. With this in mind, I can now go into how I teach consonant blends. (At the bottom of this post, you can see my systematic phonics units.)

When do two consonants make their own sound?

I explain that when two consonants are next to each other and they each still make their own sound, that is called a consonant blend. With consonant blends, they each make their own sound, but often they are so close that it is hard to pull the sounds apart.

Can you model how to read consonant blends?

I model how to read consonant blends on their own. This can be difficult for students with phonemic awareness issues. Often kids want to insert a vowel that is not there. For example, “cr” might be “car” or “sp” might be “sip”. Practicing saying each sound and blending them together correctly is key!